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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After 30 years in tourism, Marion has made her dream a reality – her dream of running her own holiday accommodation. In what was a dilapidated building, she has created a premium apartment complex that focuses on mindfulness. We asked Marion how guests can enjoy their freedom at Freiraum…
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.
At the entrance of the South Tyrolean Puster Valley, a small village extends with 17 lovingly designed and furnished nature chalets ranging from 78 to 150 m2 of living space. It is a piece of paradise at an altitude of 1,300 meters, a unique cosmos with natural luxury and country life.
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.
Situated in one of the most romantic corners of Salzburg’s old town, away from the hustle and bustle but in the heart of the festival district, the Hotel Goldgasse offers an authentic Salzburg experience. The hotel displays large-format art photos of the festival and thus conveys the real Salzburg flair.
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.
The path to Collis Hill wasn’t an easy one, but Katrin still wouldn’t change a single thing about it. In the heart of Kals, she has succeeded in turning an old farmhouse into a place of tranquillity and inspiration. Returning to the roots and the four elements. We asked her what the journey was like to get there, what tichas are and what guests can expect when they get there…
Making things by hand is in no way “old school” at Creative Industries Styria. Styrian Products exhibit a blend of traditional craftsmanship with modern design and computer technology. This combination doesn’t just result in accurate and high-quality work, it also makes for extraordinary designs and products that have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives. Here are our top three…
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…
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.
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.
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..
The Peloton brand is taking Europe and hotels by storm. We spoke with Daniel Sprung, senior director at Peloton, about the importance of wellness, a strong community and how personalization in fitness also works when traveling…
There has been a lot of discussion since AI was made available to everyone in the form of ChatGPT and Midjourney. Is AI intelligent? Have people had their time as a thinking, creative being? What is authentically experienced and felt, and what is just simulated? And how can we tell the difference? Many questions that inspired us to dedicate the latest issue of Stylemate to the topic of AI…