Stacked Architecture: Five Vertical Projects Piling Up Homes
Five architects, one shared idea: the stacked house, reinvented as hotel, gallery, tower and neighbourhood in miniature.
Rotterdam Rocks: MVRDV Unveils A Sensational Biophilic Landmark
A cluster of seven boulders, Rotterdam Rocks fuses sustainability storytelling, hospitality and public terraces on the Dutch city’s south bank.
In Action! Kiki & Joost Celebrate 25 Years of Design
From Tapestries to Lighting, Kiki & Joost opened their studio for the In Action exhibition and shared insights on design, collaboration, and their creative journey.
Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2025: Gen Z Designs the Future
From a shared symphony of brainwaves to design activism on a tree top. Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2025 sparks bold visions.
Umbra Pavilion Weaves Solar Power into Public Space
In Eindhoven, Pauline van Dongen’s innovative solar-powered fabric captures the sun’s energy and glows at her Umbra Pavilion, a kite-like architecture weaving light, technology, and care for our planet.
Invisible Matters: Transnatural Reveals Nature’s Hidden Forces
In Eindhoven, the Invisible Matters design exhibition explores the unseen connections between humans, nature, and our urban world.
Dutch Design Week 2025: Fifteen highlights in Eindhoven
A solar-powered textile pavilion, an exploration of consumerism’s bulimia, and the world’s largest crayon, and more… Check out our guide to Dutch Design Week 2025.
The ‘Sidelined’ exhibition transforms the Netherlands Pavilion in Venice into an inclusive sports bar
The SIDELINED exhibition queers the sports bar reimagining how we can play together, gather, and compete without divisions.
Mad Architects’ Fenix Museum of Migration nearing completion in Rotterdam
An eye-catching whirlpool of panoramic stairs winds through and tops the Fenix Museum of Migration, the first cultural project by MAD Architects in Europe, set to be inaugurated on 16 May 2025.
Design Academy Eindhoven – DAE Graduation Show 2024
DAE Graduation Show 2024: vessels inspired by mathematic equations, non-religious funeral spaces, fences turned into urban furniture and more.
Ten Unconventional Chairs at Dutch Design Week 2024
A bench made from upcycled wood chips, a seat that prevents unnecessary laundry, and more. Check out these unconventional chairs debuting in Eindhoven.
Dutch Design Week 2024: fifteen must-visit destinations in Eindhoven
Dutch Design Week 2024: bio-sensitive concrete encouraging spontaneous urban moss growth, a choir of AI robots, and more.
DAE Graduation Show 2023: ten highlights
DAE Graduation Show 2023: Marble-looking furniture made from discarded books, pine trees’ narratives in Israel-Palestine and therapeutic knitted grids.
Transnatural returns to Dutch Design Week 2023 with two exhibitions
Material experimentation and the radical city of the future. Transnatural returns to Eindhoven, blurring the lines between nature and technology.
i29 introduces CÂPSULA, luxury tiny houses for sustainable, mindful living
To be happy, how much do we need? How can we reduce our footprint and still live large? CÂPSULA is a new typology of high-end cabins that inspire new ways to live well.
Dutch Design Week 2023: eight must-visit destinations in Eindhoven
A half-built and half-grown tree, upcycled iconic chairs in discarded denim, and eggshell lightbulbs. The best of Dutch Design Week 2023 is on Archipanic.
Powerhouse Company adds a ‘friendly giant’ tower to an iconic Brutalist building
Rather than building around monuments, Powerhouse Company completed a ‘friendly giant’ skyscraper tuning with the Brutalist architecture of a 1970’s bunker building in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Expedition Aequalis: a design exploration towards an eco-centric future
Expedition Aequalis ongoing project and exhibition at Dutch Design Week explored new design thinking paths tuning with Nature’s priorities.
The Solar Pavilion features a curved roof cladded with solar panels
380 colourful tiles compose the canopy of The Solar Pavilion, a gathering space harvesting the sun’s power to offer a new perspective on solar energy.
Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2022
Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2022: a smelting machine melting metal more sustainably, a tool to build open conversational spaces in families dealing with dementia, and a project rebalancing the colonial history of La Reunion. We selected ten design projects at the world’s most influential exhibition dedicated to the next generation of designers.
Dutch Design Week 2022: seven must-see exhibitions in Eindhoven
Microbial vending machines, solar pavilions, intentional low-resolution furniture, and more. Dutch Design Week 2022 is in full swing. We selected seven must-visit destinations, bringing forward a positive attitude for the future.
i29’s Dentista clinic soothes green atmospheres with medical professionalism
In Amsterdam, i29 has created the interior design of the first dental clinic of the Dentista chain. Natural wood, abundant greenery and an open plan layout make patients feel at ease.
DAE Graduation Show 2021: 8 projects by Design Academy Eindhoven graduates
DAE Graduation Show 2021: from human-made clouds to musical tennis tables and trauma healing garments… 8 out-of-the-box projects by Design Academy Eindhoven graduates.
Objects for a New Kind of Society: Dutch Invertuals envision future ‘design-scapes’
The Dutch Invertuals’ ‘Objects for a New Kind of Society’ exhibition at Dutch Design Week 2021 explores our relationship with objects and designers’ social role.
Dutch Design Awards 2021: sustainable archipelagos and virtual fashion
The winners of Dutch Design Awards 2021 mark a new impetus for the design world that thrives on change and cross-pollination and radiates hopeful optimism.
Dutch Design Week 2021 responds to humanity’s bulimia for irresponsible growth
Material innovation, upcycled furniture and digital exoterism. Dutch Design Week 2021 looks into the future of our homes and cities, challenging contemporary social and environmental issues with a proactive and positive attitude.
MISSED YOU CALL: Design Academy Eindhoven grad-show debuts in Milan
Can tomato plants and a server live in symbiosis? How much would you pay for a cloud? Would you use an influencer starter kit for your kids? We selected ten out-of-the-box graduation projects by Design Academy Eindhoven students on show at the MISSED YOU CALL exhibition in Milan.
Flexible sliding cabin ‘ANNA Stay’ connects people with Nature
ANNA Stay’s dynamic architecture is derived from “a desire to live with nature’s elements, rather than shielding them off,” explains Caspar Schols. Initially conceived for his mum, the project has won the prestigious 2021 Architizer A+ Awards Project of the Year Award.
Moooi’s Hortensia Armchair is made from 30.000 flower petals
Have you ever taken a seat in a blooming flower? Born as an impossible digital project on Instagram, the Hortensia Armchair by Andrés Reisinger & Júlia Esqué is a dream come true thanks to Moooi, and now available to all in real life.
Zecc Architecten clads the Steel Craft House with a Corten steel façade
Hand-made for over ten years by Zecc Architecten, its residents and their befriended craftsmen, the Steel Craft House is a fine example of self-building.