'Silent Chair' is the name of the reserved chair created by the Swedish designers Linus Berglund and Mats Seitz. And it is in fact above all the inconspicuous but ingenious little details which ensure...

Blow up sheet metal:
An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich.

The Vienna-based practice Treusch Architecture unveiled the new extension of the Ars Electronica building in Linz in January this year. The sculptural glass-steel construction is nominated for this year’s WAF Award (World Architecture Festival)...

Layers of felt in different thicknesses and varying shades of gray are applied on the round walls in order to improve the room’s acoustics. A delicate solution unlike the oftentimes rather dry appearance of standardised acoustic panels...

raumlaborberlin has designed their own mobile dream hotel for workshops, group exhibitions, symposions and festivals. now we are waiting for the perfect investor...

Cork enables innovative production methods and new ways of interaction with the environment. Widely praised as a pioneering force in green trends, this tactile and unconventional material ...

At this year’s Salone del Mobile, Potocco presented ‘Tenso’ designed by the Italian designer Mauro Lipparini. The lounge chair, dining chair and table, with statically smart structure enables a minimal use of material.

In May this year the Commune of Granada, Spain opened the new Museo De La Memoria De Andalucia, designed by the Spanish architecture practice around Alberto Campo Baeza...

An interview with Boris Berlin of the Danish Komplot Design

‘The Black Cloud’ by Heather and Ivan Morison
The structure is composed of triangular planes of a deformed geodesic dome which results in an amorphous and vivid-looking topology...

Astrid Krogh's latest neon light installation is ‘Flora’, a decoration for the Nikolai Quarter in Kolding, Denmark, which was commissioned by the Commune of Kolding.

Tomoko Azumi designed this basic side table which is composed of oak legs and shelves of powder-coated sheet metal for the young British label Mark.

Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs into geometrical forms and lines.

‘Voussoir Cloud’ by IwamotoScott with Buro Happold
is a landscape of vaults and columns consisting of clusters of three dimesional petals, which are formed by folding thin wood laminate along curved seams.

The Swedish architects Tham & Videgård Hansson unveiled one of their newest projects, the ‘Garden House’ in Södermanland, Sweden. Triangular, two storey core of the house is completely covered by a wooden trellis.

What would you do with a kilomater of wood?
Designers, architects, carpenters and everybody else who had an idea what to do with unlimited amounts of wood and screws was invited to realise their proposals within three days...

News from the Greenhouse
Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009

The idea for a nomadic tipi-like home came when John was reseraching and living in a tradiational yurt, a type of nomadic home which is designed originally by different indigenous peoples...

Last year the Norwegian Reiulf Ramstad Architects finished this 350 sqm private single family villa in Asker near Oslo...The house is clad in Siberian pine which will acquire a grey patina over time...

The Aram Gallery, well known for its innovative exhibitions and installations, offered OKAYstudio space during the London Design Festival for their first independent exhibitions as a collective.

The ‘Aki’ chair, designed by Alfredo Häberli is an upholstered chair which comes in fabric or leather of every colour and quality in the broad Fredericia Furniture range

Los Angeles-based Michael Jantzen, met Buckminster Fuller as a student in the 1970s, is an architect of that generation who has stuck to the idea of revolutionizing the traditional way of building and offering new architectural solutions...

This year the Bozen-based monovolume architects finished a hydroelectric power station, located near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (BZ) - a polygonal monolith whose design lives up to the studio’s name.

Polish architects Jedrzej Lewandowski and Lukasz Skirzynski of formodesign recently presented their proposal for a ‘House on the Water’. The self-sufficient two family house was a result of research on yacht architecture.

With his Gru Chapel, the young Brazilian architect Yuri Vital created a poular church for a poor community of the city of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.

Mechanical Media Surface - Screens and lighting elements generally offer a change of the 3-D perception of an immobile object. The first known interactive media surface was, however, made up of a mechanical display and...

‘K-Space’ in London by 6a Architects
Inspired by library archive storage systems the units are designed to combine display and storage and slide on tracks to reveal or conceal products.

the 4 young Berlin-based designers of Llot Llov presented ‘Hopper’, a kind of ready-made stool, based on the principle of the shopping baskets commonly found in supermarkets. Tension belts keep the rabbit fur on the seating in place.

Earlier this year the Danish Dorte Mandrup Architects realised the extension of the Bordings Independent School close to the beautiful lakes of Østerbro in Copenhagen.

The New York-based Bates Masi + Architects designed this two level single family residence, referred to by its’ Owner as his “tree house”, in a dense grove of pines and hollies with a view of the bay from the second level.

With ‘New Veneer’ bkm and RoHol developed various methods to change veneer surfaces and applied them to different types of storing furniture.

Oscar Narud presented a collection of wooden stools and tables. The construction of the pieces is inspired by the drop down keel used for smaller sailing boats.

‘Perelin’ by Markus Becker consists of four different self-supporting objects made from an artfully bent glossy electroluminescent glow sheet.

At this years Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven the .ekwc will showcase the result of their five-year project Ceramics & Architecture, that consists of the projects ‘Brick’ and ‘Combined Residencies’. It is the biggest exhibition in .ekwc’s history...

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.

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.

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.

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.