BIM World MUNICH will take place from 26 to 27 November 2024 at the ICM – International Congress Center Messe München. As an international event, it offers an ideal platform for a lively exchange on the digitalisation of the construction, real estate and facility management industries.

When does a building have social value, is it holistically sustainable and designed for the future? The jury of the International High-Rise Award 2024/25 has asked itself these questions. The renowned architecture prize is awarded every two years by the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and DekaBank. We introduce you to the finalists.

Stylepark is raffling off stylish bathroom accessories from Decor Walther.

With RHO, Lennart Zemke and Nikita Marykov work at the interface of architecture, music, performance and creative production. The duo focuses on minimal interventions to develop contemporary architectural solutions for cultural and subcultural environments.

With the ‘Confair Next’ room modules, Wilkhahn offers a pioneering solution for true hybridity in the workplace, combining the different requirements of analogue and digital collaboration.

Cologne's Severinstraße is one of those streets that makes it easy to understand why people fall in love with this city on the Rhine, which is so special in so many ways. Everything that makes up urban life can be found here. Right in the middle of this colourful microcosm is the office of Aretz Dürr Architekten BDA.

Inzink Design have developed inspiring room-in-room installations for Cleaf with the ‘Living Small Project’, which are on display in the CCube corporate showroom in Lissone. The creative settings are an ideal stage for the wide range of colours, high-quality surfaces and textures that the family-run company offers for furniture and interior design.

Since the launch of ‘Forum For Great Ideas’, Object Carpet's carpet series impresses with its creative designs. Now the company is taking the next step and presenting the entire collection in a new, fully recyclable quality.

Moritz Walter is an industrial designer and lives in Berlin. His extensive portfolio does not show that he only completed his studies last year. In this interview, he tells us what his idea for the heating system of the future is and why he is fascinated by designing luminaires.

How do we want to work in the future? What do we need for this? And which topics are crucial for the industry? Every two years, Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for modern working environments, provides an insight into the ideas and concerns that set the tone in the minds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs. Our review.

Jörg Boner has designed the ‘Glarona’ collection for Schätti, whose ceiling, wall, floor and table luminaires are reduced to the essentials. Thanks to the ideal interplay of form and technology, they offer an atmospheric lighting effect – both as part of an ensemble and as a stand-alone piece.

Flexible, functional and easy to customise, Brunner's designer furniture is also ideal for environments with dynamic use. Visitors to Orgatec will be able to experience live how the working world can be designed with forward-looking ideas.

Mathias Hahn focussed on balance when designing his new chair family for Zeitraum. For the first time, the Bavarian manufacturer is now presenting ‘Aeon Stool’, a bar stool without a backrest that emphasises the organic lines of the design.

Eine flexible Lösung für moderne Raumkonzepte: Das bietet der neue Besprechungstisch "Etage" der Kinnarps-Marke Materia mit zahlreichen Möglichkeiten zur Individualisierung.

"yay" and "ohh" is a dialogue between loud and calm, similar to the interplay of different characters in a room, say Relvãokellermann. They have realised this as a multifunctional design for gumpo.

With ‘Steeve Lou’, Jean-Marie Massaud has designed a free-standing sofa for Arper that has a pleasantly airy appearance thanks to its base frame with T-feet.

A flexible seating island that offers maximum comfort: With ‘Elianto’, Norwegian designer Espen Øino for Paola Lenti created a round platform that is a great addition to both a yacht and a terrace.

Since 1949, the Wagner company has been showing new perspectives for healthy seating and sustainable interior design. In an interview, Peter and Rainer Wagner tell the publishers of Stylepark what values underlie their decisions and what they are planning for the upcoming Orgatec.

Architect@Work invites you to the capital with an exciting programme on 6 and 7 November 2024. Currently, 236 exhibitors from the industry have registered for the presentation in Berlin. The supporting programme is also impressive, with numerous special shows and lectures to choose from.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Petra Wörner, who is a pioneer in the field of healthcare and research buildings.

Object Carpet had already worked on technologies to make its carpets recyclable for "Neoo". In the featured film, we present the further development "Duo": with just two components, the carpet celebrated its successful premiere at the Berlinale 2024.

How does Wilkhahn teach seating to walk? And what are the benefits of dynamic sitting for people's health, such as the efficient furnishing of an office or home office? Carsten Gehner, Head of Product Pre-Development, in an interview.

With the ‘Infinity Showers’ shower collection, Villeroy & Boch has developed a complete range of seven items that are convincing in terms of function and design in any context.

For two years now, König + Neurath has been focussing on topics and communication rather than individual products. With Connect.Collab.Create, their booth at Orgatec will become an event space for inspiring talks – and visitors will become active participants.

The new product in the ‘Cut it!’ series shows that Spitzbart has got the right twist: a spiral staircase completes the portfolio designed by Max Wehberg and provides a stable staircase with an industrial aesthetic made from untreated raw steel.

As a specialist for system furniture and customised solutions, gumpo will be presenting extraordinary surface variations and – uniquely for gumpo – upholstered seating at Orgatec.

At the upcoming Orgatec, guests can experience Pedrali's vision of the future of work: Under the title #PedraliColoursofLightness, DWA Design Studio has created a flexible backdrop wrapped in sky-blue textile gauze.

Together with three other premium manufacturers, Object Carpet is presenting its expertise: In an all-round circular presentation, the brands show unusual inspirations for today's high-quality working and living environments, staged weightlessly by the Ippolito Fleitz Group.

Kinnarps is convinced that a company's most valuable asset is the people who work for it. This is why the Swedish manufacturer pursues the goal of designing holistically ergonomic working environments - for optimum well-being.

The office and home furniture manufacturer Dauphin invites trade fair visitors on a fantastic journey under the motto ‘Dauphin Workheart ǀ Wonderworld’.

König + Neurath, manufacturer of high-quality office furniture and room systems, will be presenting a wide range of products at Orgatec to help shape the changing world of work in a customised way.

At Wilkhahn, trade fair visitors can expect a pleasantly airy architecture on over 450 square metres: Michael Englisch, head of the design and development department, and his team have devised a sustainable structure made of aluminium surrounded by a textile shell.

Under the motto "the future works with shared visions", the specialist for functional design furniture Brunner will be presenting its holistic concept idea at the world's leading trade fair for modern working environments with future-proof products that will have a lasting impact on everyday office life in the future.

Lodes invites visitors to the world's leading trade fair for modern working environments in Cologne on a nautical voyage and shows how aesthetically pleasing dynamic lighting solutions can be.