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"Hashira", Japanese for "column", is the name Alain Gilles gave to the table he designed for Ligne Roset. A direct reference can be found when looking at the four conical legs made of wood veneer, which support the rounded table top made of marble or solid wood.

Burgbad’s “Accura” line is a minimalist collection that offers a lot of scope for bathroom designs while relying on only a very few elements. Creative diversity, precise finishing, and well thought out functionality combine here to offer you an array of bathroom scenarios.

Stylepark is raffling off an "AXOR One" hand shower!

Despite the difficult political, economic, and social circumstances prevailing in Beirut the city boasts a strong design scene in which women are gaining ground. We met five women designers in Beirut and Dubai.

"Hospital" architecture stands for economic, functional buildings that nobody would like to stay in longer than is absolutely necessary. Yet it has been scientifically proven that architecture can have a positive impact on the healing process. In a show running until January 21, 2024, the TUM Architecture Museum in Munich is presenting pioneering examples.

Xenia Watson is studying Product Design at the HfG Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. The result of “Within – A Shadow in Knitwear” – her term project – is a cardigan with integrated codes and every fiber of it attests to the appreciation of wool as a material.

184 companies will be exhibiting at Architect@Work in Hamburg on 13 and 14 September 2024 – renowned labels will be represented as well as forward-looking start-ups.

The designers Judith Augustin and Sophie Dobrigkeit organise the DDC Women's Table format as part of the Deutschen Designer Club. They tell us in an interview what their goal is and why a platform for female designers from all over Germany is needed.

We can learn from nature about how enormous stability and rigidity can work more effectively despite low structural weights. Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann and his company FibR GmbH have been looking into these construction principles. The result: A very special type of meshwork specially designed for architecture.

The International Building Exhibition in the Stuttgart Region is looking for answers to the question of how we want to live and work in the future. In this context, circular planning and building have a role to play. We spoke to Tobias Schiller and Stefanie Weavers from IBA'27 about the process-based approach of the projects.

The Study Pavilion in Brauschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke is a prototype for both a new approach to learning and new architecture. Our author Falk Jaeger took a closer look at the concept.

This year designers Alberto Brogliato and Federico Traverso presented their latest product for Magis: The "Trave" chair. In this interview they tell us why for them good design is essentially about balance, time, and, paring things back.

Something is happening in Barcelona. Two books, published independently of each other and almost simultaneously in Spain and Germany devote themselves to the latest architecture in the Catalan capital, which more than ever focuses on projects for the community and subsidized housing.

In this interview Christoph Gerdesmeyer and Jonas Krohn provide an insight into their broad project portfolio – from the 4.0 office to the customized kitchen.

With “BetteSuno” Barber Osgerby have designed a bathroom collection for Bette that combines sculptural design with creative flexibility.

The architects Yena Young and Marco Canevacci create exclusively temporary, walk-in spatial structures made of air and plastic film with their office Plastique Fantastique. We wanted to know why the "bubbles" never let go of them.

Ichiro Iwasaki has designed the "Ralik" collection for Arper, with whose seating furniture, tables and benches individual set-ups can be realised.

Stylepark is raffling off a "crona steel" lounge chair by Brunner!

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Marina Tabassum from Bangladesh. In her work she reconciles the traditional building culture of her country with international influences.

Bad Gastein is a fabulously strange place in itself. And vacant buildings remain one of its characteristics. An art festival embraces the concept of the summer resort, invites creative professionals, and then lets them work freely. Some of the works produced only stay for a few weeks, others can be still be viewed on an Art Trail today.