With their “New Work Project,” the interior design studio The New Design Object has created an elegant co-working space in New York City.

How to highlight the stairs in the no-frills architecture of Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University is something Ado Lights achieves perfectly.

Thomas Wagner spoke to Christopher Weil, in charge of Exterior Design at MINI, about the “MINI Electric Concept” and the “MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept”.

Designers Aust & Amelung, Relvao Kellermann, Studio Pauline Deltour and Uwe Fischer have developed furniture for the “Cor Lab” that create comfy working zones.

The historic building of the “West-Brabants Archief” in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom has been brought up to the latest standard with Gira.

The “Vienna Design Week” has been a firm fixture for some years now. And it will get its 11th airing from September 29 through October 8.

The new newsroom at Pressehaus Stuttgart boasts a modern infrastructure – and that includes optimal illumination of the workstations by Waldmann products.

The Heatherwick Studio has carved out the inside of an old grain silo to create an Expressionist sculpture that doubles up as the new “Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa” in Cape Town.

“Grand Basel” is the name of the auto salon that is setting out to attract more than just collectors and design aficionados as of next year. The concept was presented in Basel – along with the one or other dream of a car.

Organically formed crystals that haven’t been cut or polished and which softly reflect the light: Swarovski Crystal Palace presents an entirely new development at the London Design Festival with “Luminous Reflections” by Tord Boontje.

The "Cosmo" luminaire by next lighting gives the lobby for a center for plasmapheresis in Hungary a lighter feel.

Dinesen HeartOak floor planks create a cozy atmosphere in a holiday home on the island of Funen.

Do we need more sweeping changes to the interplay between building and mobility? Christian Gärtner from Urban Standards about the steps needed for a new mobility policy.

The premium owner-occupied apartments of Friends Tower in Munich are fitted with showers by Bette.

It is not just young designer Qian Jiang’s works that are outstanding – a look at the five other designers nominated is well worth while.

The desks in the Heike Falkenberg’s "M-Line" series also set the tone in her own home.

When in 1986 the two art collectors were looking for an architect to build them a holiday home on Mallorca, they happened to meet a young unknown architect from England: John Pawson. He did not design a house for their plot but a large castle – that can be rented today.

The architects at OMA have for the first time designed a university building: "Lab City" for the elite Parisian college CentraleSupélec.

The Luxushotel "At Six" is Stockholm's newest design hotspot and combines Nordic design with fittings and showers from Axor.

In Copenhagen’s North Harbor a new lease of life has been found for a former coal crane – in the form of a hideaway that doubles up as a show of Danish design prowess.

For the bathroom in the exclusive "One Ocean Club" in Barcelona the choice fell on ceramics courtesy of Villeroy & Boch.

The built future optimism of the 1970s can currently be viewed at the “Utopie Plastic” exhibition in Friche de l’Escalette near Marseille.

Simonswerk has created a finger-trap protection set for retrofitting doors.

With its bathroom series Bette Loft and Bette Loft Ornament, Bette demonstrates its competence in molding technology.

On Römerberg, in the middle of Frankfurt’s Old City, Meixner Schlüter Wendt have created an archetypical building of glass that appears to be suspended in space.

The bulldozer has rolled in. The demolition of Robin Hood Gardens has started. An obit. In praise of the best concrete in East London.

The new Historisches Museum Frankfurt building designed by Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei has divided the architectural community. Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt explains why it is successful.

For the Stuttgart Restaurant “Enso Sushi und Grill” DIA – Dittel Architekten serve up Japanese restraint coupled with European seating.

Durlum illumination and ceiling elements create vibrant spaces.