Powerhouse Company has designed the new Amsterdam headquarters of IT giant IBM, delivering on the company’s vision for the working world of tomorrow: a sustainable building that is not so much a traditional office as a pleasant and healthy meeting place for sharing ideas.
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INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS CHRIS LEVINE, ANTHONY BURVILL, ROB & NICK CARTER AND OTHERS COME TOGETHER TO HELP DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN LONDON THIS CHRISTMAS.
In the Brazilian city of Manaus, Laurent Troost Architectures has created an office as a statement that harmonizes nature with urban life. It also demonstrates that a working environment is perfectly able to recreate a holiday feeling.
After a long day sightseeing or on the beach, it’s often not until the evening that you realise you’ve once again forgotten to drink enough water. Especially when tap water on holiday just tastes like chlorine, drinking water can be far from your mind…
Welcome to Culinaria Living – the place where breathtaking views and exquisite culinary expertise come together to give you an unforgettable experience with views over the entire Adige Valley.
Embracing its history, this Vienna-located art deco style hotel puts a spin on the plain traditional with an eccentric pink palette
The fusion of creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the world of design and architecture. We spoke to three designers who are reshaping the future…
With the application for Expo 2030 in Odessa, Ukraine aimed to make a statement. Although the project by Zaha Hadid Architects has been rejected, the symbol of resistance and reconstruction persists.
From December 2023, OLM Nature Escape, an extraordinary eco aparthotel, will set innovative trends in the South Tyrolean holiday hotel industry in three ways: with bold architecture in a circular shape, a pioneering culinary concept and, for the first time in the Alps, as a completely energy self-sufficient holiday home.
At the very tip of Java Island stands Amsterdam’s wooden Flatiron building, Hotel Jakarta. The heart of this energy-neutral 4-star hotel is a subtropical garden.
Iwan Baan is considered one of the most important photographers of architecture and the built environment. In impressive images, he documents the growth of global megacities as well as traditional or informal buildings and the works of well-known contemporary architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kazuyo Sejima and Tatiana Bilbao. From October 2023 to March 2024, the Vitra Design Museum will dedicate the first comprehensive retrospective to the Dutch photographer. The exhibition “Iwan Baan. Moments of Architecture” presents a panorama of early 21st-century architecture in its urban and social contexts, and the people who live in it, with the photographer’s wide-ranging oeuvre…
October 2023 – Cambodia’s former royal residence Amansara, which once housed King Sihanouk’s diplomats and aristocrats, will reopen on October 1, 2023 after a royal renovation. Not only will there be new culinary experiences and events to mark the occasion, but thanks to a new direct flight from Vietnam Airlines, it’s now even easier to connect Amansara in the Laotian city of Luang Prabang with the legendary Angkor Wat. In the new season, Amantaka will also welcome guests with unique cultural festivals and wellness events – one more reason to embark on an Indochina odyssey this year.
With the Shanshui Firewood Garden in China’s Sichuan province, Mix Architecture translates architectural heritage into a new formal language. Light screens made of suspended firewood plumb the space in a new way.
Inspired by the digital revolution and in response to an increasing scarcity of resources, Austrian designer and entrepreneur Gregor Pirouzi has developed a new creative concept based on the fair share principle for the textile industry that breaks with linear systems and establishes fair partnerships between the creative industry and its producers…
The winning design for the new hall building in Munich’s world-famous Olympic Park comes from the Copenhagen office 3XN. No easy task, because: In the future, Munich’s new sports arena will have to stand alongside the architectural icon of Günter Behnisch and Frei Otto.
Leica presented the annual Oskar Barnack Awards in Wetzlar and the 2023 winners have been announced. U.S.-based photographer Ismail Ferdous and Chinese photographer Ziyi Le…
For the fifth consecutive year, the digital and physical design platform Isola joins the Dutch Design Week 2023 taking place in Eindhoven (Netherlands) from October 21st to 29th, 2023, and presents two main exhibitions inspired by Isola’s theme of this year, Nothing Happens if Nothing Happens..
October 2023 – As Morocco warmly welcomes the return of travelers from around the world, the luxury Amanjena Hotel also welcomes guests to its unique palatial resort just outside the UNESCO World Heritage city of Marrakech. Amanjena means “peaceful paradise”-it is situated in a particularly quiet and peaceful location. Surrounded by palm trees and olive groves, guests can experience the unique hospitality and special charm of Morocco and enjoy the hotel’s latest offerings near the famous “Red City”: