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Villeroy & Boch’s Factory N 09 office occupies an old warehouse

July 19, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Factory No09 office by Villeroy & Boch

Dezeen promotion: Architecture practice BSA has created a “diverse spectrum” of workspaces within a disused warehouse in Saarland, Germany, as the office of ceramics company Villeroy & Boch. Located in the municipality of Mettlach, the warehouse was simply known before as Factory N 09. It has now been transformed into contemporary offices for Villeroy & Boch, which

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Oskar Kohnen Studio adds pastel cabinetry to Lunettes Selection store

July 18, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Lunettes Selection shop in Berlin designed by Oskar Kohnen Studio

Customers can peek inside cabinet drawers to see the glasses on offer inside this mint-green eyewear store in Berlin, which has been designed by Oskar Kohnen Studio. Located just a short walk from major Berlin shopping street Kurfürstendamm, Lunettes Selection’s pastel interiors are dressed with a handful of decor pieces that subtly nod to the

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Virgil Abloh hacks the Vitra archive to create vision of a home in 2035

June 12, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Vitra x Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh has adapted the designs of Jean Prouvé and the Eames’ to create his vision of the home of the future, which is installed in the Zaha Hadid-designed fire station at the Vitra Campus. The designer delved into the Vitra archive to put together the exhibition Twentythirtyfive. He hacked and reimagined many of the furniture

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University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

June 3, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

University of Stuttgart engineers have harnessed the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture to create this world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The university’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) built the Urbach Tower in the Rems Valley for the Remstal Garden Show.

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University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

June 3, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

University of Stuttgart engineers have harnessed the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture to create this world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The university’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) built the Urbach Tower in the Rems Valley for the Remstal Garden Show.

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Ingenhoven Architects is wrapping five miles of hedges around an office in Düsseldorf

May 21, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf by Ingenhoven Architects

Ingenhoven Architects is building the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, which will have facades covered with five miles-worth of hornbeam hedges. Located on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, alongside the heritage-listed Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus theatre, the five-storey office block topped out earlier this month. When it is completed next year, the two main facades of the trapeze-shaped building

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University of Stuttgart creates biomimetic pavilions based on sea urchins and beetle wings

May 8, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
University of Stuttgart creates biomimetic pavilions for the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany

The University of Stuttgart has continued its experiments into biomimicry and robotic construction with two pavilions at the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany. Both of the pavilions are built by robots and are designed to imitate nature – known as biomimicry. A sweeping wooden pavilion has a shape based on sea urchins, while a fibre-composite

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Heike Hanada completes Bauhaus Museum Weimar at birthplace of the design school

April 11, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Bauhaus Museum Weimar by Heike Hanada

German architect Heike Hanada has completed a minimalist concrete museum to celebrate the Bauhaus in Weimar, where the design school was founded 100 years ago. Named the Bauhaus Museum Weimar, the building dedicated to the design school creates a physical cultural presence for the Bauhaus in the German city where it was based between 1919

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Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany

April 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Black House by Buero Wagner

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. The lake house extension comprises a bedroom, kitchen and living space that was designed as a repost to the typical architecture found in rural Germany. “Rural areas in Germany are often

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