‘Chassis’ entirely made with space-frame technology from the automiotive world is the result of promising fundamental research Wilkhahn and Diez dared to start five years ago.

the Crafts Council launches 'Lab Craft Digital adventures in contemporary craft', a new touring exhibition opening at the Turnpike Gallery in Greater Manchester on 30 October.

At this year’s CERSAIE in Bologna the Italian manfacturer Mutina presented this new series of bathroom tiles by the Isreal design duo Raw Edges. The designer’s idea was to reproduce the effect of folded paper on ceramics...

'Guerrilla' by RS Barcelona at Habitat Valencia 2010:
The hybrid of upholstery and storage system demonstrates the manufacturer’s penchant for higly versatile furniture.

The massive ‘Mountain’ plays with our associations and perception this scenic topos evokes. Designed by Tom Kühne.

The super flexible modular system GRID, devised by the founder of Danish furniture firm Montana, has been developed and optimised over several years.

Astrid Krogh's new ‘light tapestry’ currently exhibited within her solo exhibition at Galleri NB in Viborg (DK). ‘Morild’ consists of a perforated wooden wall with illuminated spots, with ornamentally arranged fiber-optic threads.

The Danish architectural practice COBE recently unveiled this extension of the 1970s local community theatre, situated in a social housing neighborhood of Taastrup closed to Copenhagen.

The Belgian designer Peter Donders developed these ultra-light seating furniture made from 462 m (pouf) and 320 m (bench) of carbon-fibre under his label morphs. The single string of fibre was twisted around a form that was removed afterwards...

Tadashi Kawamata's newest creation is wooden huts hanging like wasp’s nests between the beams and pillars of the structural facade of Centre Pompidou in Paris.

News by Studio Hausen and Elisa Honkanen for the Singapore based label Foundry.

Summer break – the vanguard Berlin theater Volksbühne closed its doors barricading the iconic limestone facade with five additional columns. The architectural collective osa – office for subversive architecture realized this temporary installation.

Located on a small island in the impressive Archipelago Sea of Southeast Finland this decent and well camouflaged wooden summer house was designed by the Helsinki based practice Huttunen–Lipasti–Pakkanen Architects.

Lars Frank Nielsen architect and founder of Danish ONEN Design has designed this modular architectural system for the Swedish company Add-A-Room. The house can be ordered in different modules with specific functions.

JSPR, a young Dutch interior design brand founded by Eindhoven graduate Jasper van Grootel revives the display cabinet. Available in different sizes and dimensions. Design by Sylvie Meuffels.

Swiss group Bonnard Woeffray Architectes recently completed this extension of the École Professionelle in Viège, a southern Swiss elementary school. The facade is characterised by aconstructive grid of the supporting structure.

French design label Moustache offers a preview of its new collection, to be launched next week in Milan. Novelties include work by Lausanne- and Brussels-based studio Big Game and French designers Inga Sempé and Matali Crasset.

‘Pipeknot’ by Keiji Ashizawa consists of a coat rack, a coffee table and a table – all assembled by the same system. Welded steel pipes form the constructive knots. The wooden sticks which pass through them are fixed by dowels.

The Copenhagen based architectural practice Powerhouse Company realised this extension of an old beautiful famthouse in Burgundy, France.

Copenhagen based textile designer, Astrid Krogh, with some stunning new light installations including 'Incitament' in Aalborg, a tapestry made from a beautifully composed raster of neon tubes in several shades of green.

Bunzo Ogawa founded FUTURE STUDIO two years ago. One of his first projects ‘Wrap House’ is remarkable with its smart fusion of the open roof and the cut facade which results in an intimate shielded patio.

Kengo Kuma Associates realised this renovation of the Hoshakuji Station north of Tokyo. Parts of the station are made from re-used Oya stone which was left over from an old warehouse that existed in this area.

‘House K’ by Sekkei-sha - The interior is special for its village-like central space – the living area and kitchen – which seems to be surrounded by other residential houses.

The Zurich based architectural practice XPACE realised this extension of a private house of a sculptor in Luxemburg. The copper cladded building provides a studio and a wellness area with a sauna and a viewing terrace.

After work experience at Lissoni Associati in Milan and Patrick Norguet’s Studio in Paris, Finnish designer Elisa Honkanen branched out on her own and recently presented her newest creations at the Greenhouse in Stockholm.

The Swiss practice U15 Novello Eligio Architecte realised this single family residence in an rural area in the north of Lausanne. The building is the metaphor of the stone on the lawn...

During this year’s Transmediale, the annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, the Austrian artist Gebhard Sengmüller presented his impressive interactive installation ‘A Parallel Image’.

At this year’s imm cologne the Italian manufacturer presented the re-edition of several Charlotte Perriand pieces for the first time. Among them the ‘Ombra Tokyo’ chair from 1954.

At this year’s ‘Passagen’, one of the major frame programs during the imm cologne, the Belgian designer Wendy Legro presented this poetic, interactive and modular sun blind and illumination system.

Form February 5, 2010, the Italian architect and designer Michele De Lucchi will show a selection of his small wooden architecture models at Ingo Maurer’s space in Munich. The opening with an artist talk will be on February 4, 2010.

The Japanese no.555 Architectural Design Office recently realised this single family residence. It is based on a two storey steel frame construction.

The Seattle based Heliotrope Architects realised this summer residence in their home state Washington.

With the new simplistic interior design for a Stockholm shop of the high fashion brand Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, the Swedish practice Guise was nominated for this year’s Great indoors Award, initiated by Frame.

In close collaboration the Dutch practices Studio Roelof Mulder and bureau Ira Koers realised the new interior design for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. The project won The Great Indoors Award 2009 in the category Serve & Facilitate.

The Dutch architects of MVRDV designed this tribune, a new think tank called ‘The Why Factory’, at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. The flexible furniture are designed by Richard Hutten.

Dutch photographer Bas Princen also trained as an architect, with a focus on architectural photography. Giant construction sites and apparently absurd human artifacts describe the oddity of human ‘civilizations’

The Paris and Vienna based Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes recently finnished the new sales and financial centre for voestalpine in Linz / Austria.

This church was the master’s thesis of Anssi Lassila, co-founder of the Finnish practice Lassila Hirvilammi Architects. The competition was arranged in 1999 at the University of Oulu’s Department of Architecture.

Alpine construction, with its extreme conditions, remains a challenge in engineering, as shown by the recent example of the Monte Rosa lodge. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology took over the architectural and technical concept, creating....

‘Ventura’ is designed by Leo Krol & Vincent de Rijk for the Dutch manufacturer Solid. The pendant light is constructed out of two aluminium disks covered by a two-tone polyesther transparent diffuser in different colours.

German Ecker Architects hosted 12 students from the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology this summer. With the support of local craftsmen, this chapel for a local ecumenical church co-operative came to be.

With their kinetic installation ‘MorphoLuminesnece’, which is just one example of a range of impressive interactive works, PROJECTiONE was represented at this year’s BEYOND MEDIA, the Florence based festival for visionary contemporary architecture.

The Berlin based J. MAYER H. Architects recently unveiled their project “Steckelhörn 11”, an office building, located in the old centre of Hamburg, close to the prominent new “Hafen City” development...

After 2 years of work, the Brussels-based LAb[au] exhibited ‘Framework f5×5x5′, generative and interactive kinetic display, at the Basilique de Saint-Denis in Paris.