The Lost Cloth Object: Stephen Burks and ALPI Reimagine Traditional Congolese Textiles in Wood
At Design Miami, The Last Cloth Object capsule collection translates textile traditions of the ancient Kuba Kingdom into innovative wood design.
The Austrian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka is about ‘Composing the Future’
Beethoven’s music and a striking wooden ribbon welcome visitors at the Austrian Pavilion, in tune with the motto ‘Composing the Future.’
Japan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka Embodies the ‘Cycle of Life’
The pavilion embraces the Cycle of Life concept of continuous transformation and reuse. Envisioned as a living organism, it is shaped as a monumental ring formed from layers of timber planks.
The Uzbekistan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka was conceived as a ‘Garden of Knowledge’
ATELIER BRÜCKNER creates a sustainable ‘Garden of Knowledge’ to narrate Uzbekistan’s transition to a Green Economy through a wooden forest and mesmerising projections.
Expo 2025 Osaka is centred around a giant timber Ring structure
Inspired by ancient temple building techniques, the ‘Ring’ at Expo 2025 Osaka will be the world’s largest timber structure, “connecting with the world through the sea and sky,” explains Sou Fujimoto.
Uprooted: Jorge Penadés crafts furniture from neglected olive roots
With the ‘Uprooted’ exhibition and collection, Spanish designer Jorge Penadés explores olive wood’s design potential, valuing deep material research over industrial standardisation.
Toyota City Museum by Shigeru Ban is an ode to sustainable timber architecture
Shigeru Ban’s Toyota City Museum is made from locally sourced cedar wood. The new cultural venue is Japan’s first architecture to achieve the Net Zero Energy Building Ready certification.
Stefan Diez’s Vert pavilion is a ‘greening machine’ boosting urban biodiversity at London Design Festival
Within a courtyard at Chelsea College of Arts in London, the Vert pavilion is a cutting-edge, sustainable, modular urban-cooling timber structure designed to tune with cities’ infrastructure.
Designers ‘On the Trestle’: Secondome challenges six Italian designers
A deceiving throne, a table inspired by flowing lava, a totemic geometric structure, shelves and consoles with moulded Murano glass sheets, and an introspective cage-like design. Six designers work with wood, exploring the concept of the trestle.
Henning Larsen Architects designs a New Wood Terminal in the Faroe Islands
In Torshavn, the capital of the remote Faroe Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, Henning Larsen Architects has designed the New Wood Terminal, a new ferry terminal and HQ embracing the picturesque backdrop of lush Arctic landscapes and open seas. The building pays homage to traditional Faroese fishing boats.
Best of 3 Days of Design 2023: Copenhagen shines with design
3 Days of Design 2023 celebrates the Danish festival’s 10th anniversary focusing on the design community teaming up to create a better living environment for future generations.
Best of 3 Days of Design 2023: Copenhagen shines with design
3 Days of Design 2023 celebrates the Danish festival’s 10th anniversary focusing on the design community teaming up to create a better living environment for future generations.
Arcobaleno and Raggiosole wood veneer collections by Konstantin Grcic for ALPI
Mesmerising hues inspired by rainbows and vintage electric guitars inspired the new food veneer collection by Konstantin Grcic for ALPI.
Carlo Ratti wraps the Wood You Believe? pavilion with discarded wooden objects
Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota explore digital printing and circular economy for the world of bespoke design with the ‘Wood You Believe?’ installation for Gruppo Saviola at Salone del Mobile.
The Pingtan Book House is a new village library paradigm in rural China
At the Pingtan Book House by Condition_Lab, kids can read and play at the same time. The project draws on a typology of traditional Dong Houses and is primarily composed of two interwoven spiral staircases.
Laurence Renzo Verbeck’s Empyrean Temple at Burning Man 2022
Shaped like a compass rose beacon, the Empyrean Temple rose and burnt in Black Rock City. The architecture featured a tessellation pattern latticework with a hanging lantern flame at its peak.
Simmer Down by arborist and artist Robert George explores new intimate paths of wood craftsmanship
Robert George debuts at Collect Art Fair with Simmer Down, four sculptural vessels respectfully crafted from saw felled Sycamore and storm felled Oak.
Cross-laminated timber fins wrap Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi pavilion in Tokyo
Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi recreational venue is dressed with a skin of wooden leaves filtering light like trees in a forest.
Freebooter vessel-like bio-house by GG-loop in Amsterdam
Freebooter residential building by GG-loop was conceived as a modern “ship on land” as well as a biophilic architecture bringing together Nature-made and human-made.
Studio Velocity designs a curved roof office building in Japan
There is a delicate balance of gravity and tension in the ‘Sannouno’ office building by Studio Velocity in Japan. The architecture features a white convivial curved roof and a randomly-disposed forest of wooden columns.
Microlibrary Warak Kayu in Indonesia brings forward social and environmentally-conscious design on stilts
The inclusive microlibrary Warak Kayu by architecture studio SHAU is made from locally sourced wood and takes advantage of the tropica climate to minimise energy consumption.
The ‘TABLE OF ELEMENTS’ series of architectural totems by Piero Lissoni for ALPI
The ‘TABLE OF ELEMENTS’ pays homage to Mendeleev’s revolutionary discovery with sustainable collectible designs.
Stickbulb upcycles wood from Brooklyn’s demolished skyscraper into the ‘Chime’ chandelier
“If a tree and a chandelier had a baby… it would look something like Chime” says to Archipanic the founder of lighting design brand Stickbulb which unveiled an architectural chandelier at ICFF in New York.
A multifaceted wooden blanket wraps the interior design of Buenos Aires’ Mamba bar ‘disruptive’ bistro
Hitzig Militello Architects’ Mamba Bar features a window display with disused broken crockery, an enveloping volumetric wooden structure, a back-lit American bar and a verdant backyard with glowing neons.
mui wood panel connects with your smart home with a humble and tech-healthy approach
New smart technologies are demanding and intrusive. What if we could manage them with just a hand swipe? mui is the connected humble wood panel empowering IoT and sponsoring intimacy at the same time.
MultiPly pavilion by Waugh Thistleton Architects explores sustainable solutions for timber architecture
London Design Festival teamed up with Waugh Thistleton Architects, to create MULTIPLY, a sustainable installation encouraging visitors to re-think the way homes and cities are designed and built.
5 verdant skyscrapers aiming to turn our cities’ skylines into forests
Suspended green oases, energy-consumption extensions and wooden high-rises. Sou Fujimoto, Stefano Boeri, Stephan Malka, Big and Carlo Ratti designed verdant skyscrapers for a greener urban future.
Bamboo Sports Hall withstands earthquakes with a lotus shaped organic architecture entirely made of bamboo
Chiangmai Life Architects completed the zero carbon footprint Bamboo Sports Hall for Panyaden International School in Thailand combining modern organic design with 21st century engineering.
Snøhetta designs casual interiors for noma group’s BARR restaurant in Copenhagen
Inspired by Nordic gourmet traditions, Snøhetta, Thorstein Schmidt and René Redzepi conceived the wooden interior design of BARR restaurant in the former home of world’s renown noma restaurant.
The Birra pub by hitzig militello arquitectos brings coziness in the southernmost city of the world
In Ushuaia, Argentina, THE BIRRA brewery and hamburger store by hitzig militello arquitectos is inspired by traditional Argentinian grocery-warehouses.