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…
Leaving a better world to our children shouldn’t be only a wish but should be action of items. We have less time. In my opinion we should focus on the areas where we can increase a better impact which are big buildings…
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…
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.…
We work across so many different disciplines so everything we do has a different context and we like to bring many new references and inputs to a project. Our research is in the form of drawing, studying changes in modes of living…
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…
SOHO creates a graphic tapestry of indirect light on the wall when it shines from the sharply designed circular lamp. Each lamp in the SOHO range can also be grouped together with other sizes and colours.…
The “Print Your City” is a part of the ambitious “Zero Waste Future” program in Thessaloniki, Greece. This project explores the possibility of using the city’s plastic waste in order to build public space with robotic 3D printing and…
These elegant, individually-weighted disks balance on custom made taut electrical cables that are produced with a matte finish. This allows the cables to lightly trace shapes in three-dimensional space, creating flexibility to frame any room setting or furniture…
Hans J. Wegner possessed a rare ability to unite aesthetics, function and comfort – a talent clearly evident in this set of sculptural furniture the world-famous Danish architect and designer first introduced in 1952…
You can preserve your treasures into plastic capsules, hook them onto a wooden light fixture, and hang it in your rooms. Every time you look up to the ceiling, you would be reminded of your memories and aspirations. The capsule lamp is…
Metal oil barrels become house bars, vinyl records are turned into wall lamps, books have a second life as coat racks. The latest product series features trivets, egg cups and jewellery made from recycled skateboard decks. The design label Lockengelöt founded by…
From Denim Waste to Marble The Bahia Denim Stool is a sculptural seating piece made from postconsumer denim waste. The discards are draped over a mould and the layers are adhesived together. After the material is dry it is carved to create…
Created in the 1970s by Oscar Niemeyer and his daughter Anna Maria, the Alta Armchair is an icon of Brazilian modernist furniture design. The perfect curve that starts at its base and reaches its backrest is this piece’s most striking feature…
Inspired by the forces at play in a gyroscope and designed to be a central statement to four facades each busy with 7 storeys of bustling workers, the sculpture expresses this rotational energy as perfect rings of light, positioned to appear spinning…
How will tomorrow be different from today? We’ll live longer and move faster. Our resources will dwindle while our technological capacity grows. But our basic needs to sleep, eat, work, and get from place to place will stay the same. That last…
Janis Saltans’ distinguished architectural career spans thirty years and is defined by a creatively diverse design portfolio. With specific focus on architecture, urban design and master planning, he has designed notable projects in various countries including China, Japan, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Turkey…
Recycling is a process where we change our waste streams into new valuable resources. In our case, we scale up several resources, and bring them back into the economy. We make sure that every furniture design we make contains at least 90%…
Artstone is an innovative and pioneering brand in its sector which develops its product range day by day in terms of technology, design and functionality. It serves both natural stone, wood, brick, concrete and multicolored and unlimited textured models embroidering iconic figures…
ORGATEC 2018 addressed relevant issues emotionally and provided a whole sector with new sources of creative inspiration. At the same time, with the first class event and congress programme, we succeeded impressively in firmly embedding the socio-political……
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…
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…
Color is a design element and one of the characteristics of materials in architecture. It makes things visible; differentiates an object from its environment; identifies elements within a composition; adds a new dimension; recalls a new…
Color is one of the most beautiful phenomena of our existence. Color is life and for me, color is a way of dealing with and touching our emotions, our psyche, and our spiritual being. Some colors are strong, some are soft…
Noise and loud in open offices, meeting areas and similar work areas is almost inevitable, make communication difficult and this environmental effect negatively affects the work quality of the employee. It is possible to eliminate this negative effect with the correct acoustic…
This season, this duo will be spoken about. The most trendy colors of the year combined with the classical beauty of marble, the Arya Series, the favorite of the season, appeared. With its dimensions of 33 x 99 cm, Arya Series…
Bone, inspired by the geometric monotony in the roof of the Güell building which is a masterpiece of Antoni Gaudi. Bone is a system that offers comfortable resting and creative working spaces. With its modules, it finds place easily in changing working…
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.…
I have always loved to draw and make things from different materials. I became interested in window displays whilst at university, studying Fashion Design. Initially I did some freelance work creating illustrations and props for some retail stores and showrooms, then partnered…
As far back as the collective memory of mankind goes, the flame has been the first and only light source, guiding our ancestors through history from the moment we dared to differentiate ourselves from the animal kingdom. The fascination with the movement…
Environmentally conscious and sustainable design demands integrative thinking. Sustainability in use and production... I attempt to bring this philosophy closer to the end-users, by working at the intersection of beauty and sustainable design. The products should be of lasting quality, easy to…
I started out with a small exhibition right after school exhibiting an experiment. The lamp experiment was the silicon lamp. That was picked up by a producer and exhibited in Milano. That is how my career got started. The studio was founded…
My education was both technical and artistic: in high school I received an electrotechnical training, then I studied Fine Arts (“Les Beaux Arts” in French) and eventually Applied Art at the French National Higher School of Applied Arts and Arts Crafts in…
My parents were farmers in the Marne Valley. I spent my childhood with my twin sister and two brothers in a small village of 80 people in the Marne department. Design came straightforwardly from what I learned at the Higher school of…
I was exposed to furniture design early on as my mother was a passionate interior designer who had a small furniture workshop at the back of our house, where I would build my own toys. I would show them to her, and…
My first steps were my studies in “Fine Arts” in which I´ve been graduated. In this school I used to draw observing live human models in 1 to 1 scale; this was an opportunity to connect myself directly with the human body,…
Business Robot Jelly, an industry-oriented business robot with remarkable openness and customizability, is widely used in banks, hospitals, restaurants, shopping malls, etc. Equipped with a complete ROSAI intelligent robot system, Jelly currently providesmany services such as taxi calling…
Sustainable Acoustic Partition System Scale, designed by Layer, a super flexible, modular acoustic partition system forAsia Pacific textile design and interior finishes company, Woven Image. Sustainability is about more than recyclability. Scale is not only produced from sustainable materials, but the system…
When I opened my studio in the early 80ies I was working, as many architects in Italy, from spoon to city, from micro to macro. Eversince, this has not changed. Today, after having founded Matteo Thun + Partners in 2001 with my…
Designed by Jasmin Castagnaro, the main goal of Recycled Nature Collection is to find alternative materials to plastic, trying to use natural resources that surround us. Millions of leaves fall to the ground every autumn and are constantly…
Every structure needs to be renewed over time to meet the requirements of the day. Although it is possible to renew the buildings that retain their original function without making significant changes, radical interventions are needed for the re-functioned structures.…
Reputation, flexibility, comfort and work quality. Local character, elements of a narrative, design combined with functionality. These features describe the new office of Nordea. The office that will reflect both a modern organisation and its willingness to evolve. The Office Inspired by…
During my school time, I always used to draw cartoons; they got the attention of my art teacher and she advised me to study design, which I did successfully at the Folkwangschule University Essen. I got my first employment in 1983 with…
I studied Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and did my degree in 2007. During my study, I become more and more interested in sculptors like Tony Cragg or Constantin Brâncuși rather than in designers. The intersection of…
In 1993, after graduating at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven, I founded the Jongeriuslab studio, where independent projects, as well as works for major clients are developed, including textile designs for the upholstery fabric…
