Ornament and pleasure: He designed the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, breathtaking villas in Caracas, a super-light chair and interiors of shimmering elegance. Now publisher Taschen-Verlag celebrates Gio Ponti’s versatile oeuvre […]
Rossana Hu, architect and founding partner of the design studio Neri&Hu, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai. Hu is the first woman […]
Buildings account for a significant share of the total energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. In order to become climate neutral, it is necessary to create an energy […]
New technologies, digital processes and forward-thinking manufacturing methods make entirely new ways in design possible. Architect and designer Patrik Schumacher examines the potential of 3D printing. By Patrik Schumacher. 3D […]
China has experienced an unparalleled building boom in recent decades, which has made the country “the largest construction site in human history”. After urban mega-projects and spectacular signature architectures were […]
Berlin’s Kaufhaus des Westens, or KaDeWe for short, is as internationally famous as Selfridges in London, La Rinascente in Milan or the Galeries Lafayette in Paris. With a sales area […]
It’s all about “Zeitgeist, Design and Service Excellence”. With the brand “Steigenberger Porsche Design Hotels”, Deutsche Hospitality presents an innovative hotel concept in the luxury lifestyle segment together with the […]
How will we live together? It is a question that is as simple as it is fundamental. Chief curator Hashim Sarkis is asking it at the 17th International Architecture Biennale […]
Commitment to climate protection is closely linked to the fight against CO2 emissions. Here, the building sector plays a crucial role: wooden architecture in particular represents a promising way to […]
Robert Haussmann passed away on 21 September. An obituary of the Swiss architect and designer and his playful approach to modernity. By Thomas Wagner. Robert Haussmann was born in 1931 […]
The house is world-famous. Nestled between craggy rocks on a steep cliff, it looks like an elegant white yacht stranded between lemon trees. Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray designed […]
What was it like to grow up in an avant-garde modernist building? Did the new way of living change life? Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster talked to former residents about […]
Architecture in the East and architecture in the West – how close were they to one another and how far apart did they diverge? Thirty years after the reunification of […]
From 23 to 25 July, the approximately 900 students of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design will once again be showing their latest student work and projects at […]
A single storey, green surroundings, relaxed, modern: it is originally from Asia, is seen by the French as a holiday home and was regarded as a modern dacha in the […]