DTV+ with KOHLER Konnect® uses voice-enabled technology to deliver a customizable showering experience. Control your routine without ever lifting a finger, and enjoy an immersive, invigorating shower that's designed just for you. Personalize your shower to feel like a spa,…
Designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri, The Componibili Bio is a version of Kartell's storage unit, one of the brand's signature products for over fifty years, today produced with a revolutionary natural material born from Kartell research and developed in collaboration…
Key elements of lighting include the interplay of dark and light, decorative, ambient, accent and…
The Special Prizes presented annually within the World Architecture Festival (WAF) aim to highlight creative, innovative, and impactful projects across diverse areas of architecture. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in categories such as material use, light and color integration, scale, aesthetic approach,…
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025 took place between 12–14 November at the Miami Beach Convention Center, where this year’s award-winning projects were revealed. Throughout the three-day program, architects and researchers from around the world presented their work, joined panel discussions, and…
WAFX 2025 Award Winners Announced...
The WAFX Awards, presented as part of the World Architecture Festival (WAF), celebrate visionary, unbuilt projects that aim to shape the cities of tomorrow. Each year, WAFX highlights designs that demonstrate innovation, sustainability, and a strong social impact,…
The list of judges for WAF 2025 has been announced...World Architecture Festival (WAF), one of the most comprehensive platforms evaluating architectural production on a global scale, has announced the jury members for its 2025 edition. Bringing together outstanding projects in architecture and…
World Architecture Festival 2025 will take place from November 12 to November 14 at the Beach Convention Center in Miami. Experience live critique presentations from hundreds of renowned architects and up-and-coming designers. In addition to the awards, there will be keynote speeches,…
BATIMAT is the place where construction and architecture professionals meet to share and select the innovative products and solutions for the buildings of today and tomorrow. It has been connecting innovation professionals for 60 years and is the exhibition for promoting and…
The World Stadiums and Arenas Summit is a key event in Saudi Arabia and the region, focusing on innovation and sustainability in sports infrastructure. It brings together global leaders, architects, developers, government stakeholders, and sports federations to discuss cutting-edge technologies, sustainable design…
In crafting a unique urban festival during 4 days in Cannes, MIPIM influences and accelerates the transformation of the…
As the signature building of a new 60-acre suburban live-work-play development, the Museum at Prairiefire was designed as a civic hub featuring world-class traveling exhibits from the American Museum of Natural History. By engaging the local population in broader cultural and scientific experiences, while architecturally celebrating
the rich story of the region, the Museum grounds it within a larger context and…
The regeneration of the East Wing of the 'people’s palace' has breathed…
Huangshan, located near the ancient villages of Hongcun and Xidi in China’s…
The National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts symbolizes the transformation of Kaohsiung,…
A contemporary sofa inspired by the iconographic version of the Gispen collections from the beginning of the 20th century. Studio Smeets gave it a more…
Highlight Hemp is a series of elegant and minimalist suspension lights designed to suit any room at home or commercial areas. The lampshades are made from industrial hemp harvest leftovers which are…
A design that has truly stood the test of time, the 675 Chair is one of the most recognised of the 20th century. Originally created in 1952, this Robin Day chair’s most prominent feature is its curved walnut-veneered plywood back…
The collection was inspired by the designer's great passion for travelling and exploring the world. The nostalgic daydreams one experiences when recalling great journeys of the past, the excitement one feels while packing for a…
Since I can remember, design is my passion and the way I can express myself. Driven…
In 1993, after graduating at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven, I founded the Jongeriuslab…
I studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and did my degree…
During my school time, I always used to draw cartoons; they got the attention of my…
The new philharmonic is not just a site for music; it is a full-fledged residential and cultural complex. The concert hall, seating 2100, and the chamber music hall for 550 listeners are embedded in between luxury flats and a five-star hotel with built-in services such as restaurants, a health and fitness centre, conference facilities. Long a mute monument of the…
Jewel represents an innovation in the world of lifestyle / retail design…
The capsule, “Quintero One” is constructed almost completely out of HyperloopTT’s Vibranium™,…
As the first large-scale park to be built in Moscow in the…
When beginning HVAC planning for a space, our engineers are focused on the wellbeing of the future occupants. The team considers thermal comfort, interior air quality, energy performance, and space quality.…
Hearing is one of our primary senses and the acoustic environment has a strong if sometimes subconscious
impact on our experience of space. So, thinking about acoustics in architecture is about first acknowledging the
powerful effect that acoustics has in our experience of space,…
Light has the power to shift one’s focus on someone or something. But in architectural lighting, deciding where to place the focus on, is not as clear-cut… A lighting designer should have an understanding of architecture, sculpture, art, and physics. They should…
We work exclusively, with historic buildings and define ourselves as a specialist "conservation" consultant. Although the word conservation can embody the repair and refurbishment of a building, we see it as a…
Recycling is a process where we change our waste streams into new…
The beauty and the significance of our living environments, our place on…
Adaptive reuse projects can be illustrated in many different ways, from re-functioning…
The concept of sustainable development was introduced in the 1987 Brundtland Report,…
2018 was a great year for architecture. The building industry is booming in Norway, a lot of public money is going into cultural buildings and infrastructure and the sale of new housing projects are up after a small dip in 2017. We…
In 2016, we saw great advancements in AI and robotics capabilities, and began working on several projects that will help define how these new technologies will be integrated into the mainstream. This year, we'll see a number of these ideas come to…
We fortunately had a busy and successful year at SevilPeach and 2016 saw the completion, the commencement on site, and the beginnings of a number of exciting projects all around the world. 2016 has also been a year of fruitful collaborations…
I had just relocated from Atlanta to Chicago so my focus in the beginning of 2016 was primarily on renovating our new home, an inner city 450 sq meter "brownstone" townhouse. I have a few new clients scheduled, kitchen design for…
Colour has played an integral role in the evolution of humans, such as recognising nature's warning signs of red or yellow in animals / plants, or the intensity of dark grey rain clouds before a downpour. The earliest colours used by humans in history came from indigo (taken from the leaves of the tropical plant Indigofera tinctoria), red ochre (from…
Color is a design element and one of the characteristics of materials…
I use colour when it is brought or suggested by materials, I…
Color is one of the most important factors affecting the perception of…
I believe that the combination of color with form ensures the integrity…
Ikebana: Japanese flower arranging art dating back to the 15th century. Art form that reinterprets the beauties of nature with an elegant aesthetic understanding. the art of flower arranging Basically, we must have love and respect for nature as well as a…
If you ask who designs the landscape best; I think all living creatures in nature except humans. They are more successful than us. They determine their own habitats without harming our planet. We humans, on the other hand, destroy the heavenly piece…
There is nothing more enjoyable than creating a classical garden by arranging only materials that could be found in the natural world. There is no greater joy for me than expressing Japanese aesthetics and values in a limited space and experiencing first-hand…
If we sum up the first and second chapters of the book so far; the focus is on the functioning of classical architecture as a language. The mechanical aspect of the work is described with examples. The nature of the five orders,…
Architecture students should read the publications accepted as a masterpiece of architectural history, from the early years of their education. This is one of those mustread classical books. John Summerson (1904-1992) who is a British art and architecture historian has a long…
In "The Five Orders of Architecture" which is the key part of the book that focuses on the details of the five orders. Chapter 2, "The Grammar of Antiquity", describes how these five orders are used in architecture. The issue is adding…
Window displays are incredibly important because this is the first point of contact for the consumer – so it needs to be cohesive and in line with each specific brand. Press campaigns, advertising, online presence, collaborations, store design, and window displays all…
To me, design excellence in window design is giving form to ideas with beauty and emotional power. Great window design aesthetics for any brand should be imaginative and explanation free. The audience should be engaged by experiencing the design.…
The created spaces proved to be quite a challenge: There is live moss, programmed artificial fog and water running down permanently on the inside of the façade. All of which had to be mocked up, tested and carefully fine-tuned.…
Sustainability has always been at the forefront of our work. Our approach to sustainability revolves around our focus and emphasis on local context-ecology, location, history, geography, etc. as the basis for design. Our plans enhance the foundation for sustainability through the various key values that bind a design to its location, cultural context and implicitly, the end-user.…
We are striving for a form of architecture that is equal to…
For me, sustainability relates to social interactions. I believe architecture now is…
Biomimicry involves learning from the many remarkable adaptations found in biological organisms…
Urban design for sustainable cities starts with remembering what the primary outcome…
The new philharmonic is not just a site for music; it is a full-fledged residential and cultural complex. The concert hall, seating 2100, and the chamber music hall for 550 listeners are embedded in between luxury flats and a five-star hotel with…
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The World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025 took place between 12–14 November at the Miami Beach Convention Center, where this year’s award-winning projects were revealed. Throughout the three-day program, architects and researchers from around the world presented their work, joined panel discussions, and…
WAFX 2025 Award Winners Announced...
The WAFX Awards, presented as part of the World Architecture Festival (WAF), celebrate visionary, unbuilt projects that aim to shape the cities of tomorrow. Each year, WAFX highlights designs that demonstrate innovation, sustainability, and a strong social impact,…
The Special Prizes presented annually within the World Architecture Festival (WAF) aim to highlight creative, innovative, and impactful projects across diverse areas of architecture. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in categories such as material use, light and color integration, scale, aesthetic approach,…
World Architecture Festival 2025 will take place from November 12 to November 14 at the Beach Convention Center in Miami. Experience live critique presentations from hundreds of renowned architects and up-and-coming designers. In addition to the awards, there will be keynote speeches,…
WAF 2025 Shortlist Announced…
The shortlist for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025, one of the world’s most prestigious architectural events, has officially been revealed!
This year’s shortlist includes 235 completed buildings, 157 future projects, and 64 interior designs, totaling over 460 outstanding entries…
The list of judges for WAF 2025 has been announced...World Architecture Festival (WAF), one of the most comprehensive platforms evaluating architectural production on a global scale, has announced the jury members for its 2025 edition. Bringing together outstanding projects in architecture and…
World Architecture Festival and World Festival of Interiors 2022 is open for entries. The entry deadline for WAF is the 27th May 2022 and the entry deadline for INSIDE is 20th May 2022. World Architecture Festival will take place in Lisbon, from…
As confidence grows in autonomous forms of mobility, a new stage of automobility will come into existence. It will bring with it inverse commutes, where working spaces come closer to where people live.…
As we look ahead, we see self-driving delivery trucks – we call them 21st century mules – delivering everything from your new jeans to a hot lunch, almost instantly.…
Window displays are incredibly important because this is the first point of contact for the consumer – so it needs to be cohesive and in line with each specific brand. Press campaigns, advertising, online presence, collaborations, store design, and window displays all…
