The third Material Vision – Materials for Product Development, Design and Architecture, International Trade Fair and Conference – ended on 23 November 2007 with a slight increase in the number of visitors. On the two days of the fair, 2,034 product developers, architects and designers from 27 countries came to the ‘Forum’ of Frankfurt Fair [...]

Expo CTS and the Italian Ministry for the Environment invite operators from the hotel and hospitality sectors, together with their clients, to the Nemo Next Hotel, an exhibition-event on hospitality in the future, at Fiera Milano between 19 and 23 October 2007, as part of Host, the international trade fair on professional hospitality. A [...]

Victoria Beckham is set to write a book about interior design.
The former Spice Girl has found decorating her new Beverley Hills mansion so inspiring she plans to turn her experience into a book.
Victoria – who has been busy furnishing her new home ahead of her family’s move to Los Angeles later this year – has [...]

The completion of Wembley National Stadium designed by Foster + Partners and HOK Sport, heralds a new chapter for Britain’s iconic venue. The new Wembley Stadium will be the first of a new generation of sports stadia, with facilities unparalleled anywhere in the world, including banqueting halls, pre-function gathering spaces and facilities for media coverage. [...]

The material that fascinated the Victorians has become the eco-chic darling of home design.
Bamboo, a staple of British Colonial style, is making a resurgence in fashionable new forms. It’s turning up in contemporary flooring, furniture, accessories and even bedding, and it’s grabbing the attention of interior designers and consumers who are drawn to bamboo’s beauty, [...]

WIN TICKETS AND EXPERIENCE AMAZING HOUSES OF THE FUTURE AT THE 2007 IDEAL HOME SHOW
9 March – 1 April 2007, Earls Court, London
This spring on March 9 2007, the Ideal Home Show will bring together the very latest in home design, must-have products and accessories, exciting innovation and expert advice from the UK’s interior design [...]

In the 1980s, postmodernism reigned supreme in the worlds of art and architecture.
Postmodernist architecture, of course, was a reaction to the minimalist modern architecture of the 1950s and ’60s. But, whereas the Michael Graveses and Robert Venturis of the world were busily designing whimsically overwrought buildings as a reaction to the excessively boring buildings that [...]

In a 5-4 vote Wednesday night, the School Building Committee chose Kaestle-Boos Association Inc. to design significant renovations of two of the district’s schools.
Committee Chairman Frank Everett cast the tie-breaking vote as the panel agreed to negotiate a contract with the New Britain-based architectural firm. Committee members voted by paper ballots, which they signed.
“It [...]

The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]

Karl Bengs is passionate about polishing ”gems” in Japan. He is a German architect who has attracted increasing amounts of attention for his work to restore old Japanese houses.
For many years, Bengs has searched for old houses and buildings and breathed new life into them by preserving their traditional features while at the same time [...]

Supported by United Kingdom Trade & Investment, the British European Design Group makes its debut at Index Dubai 2006.
Ever since the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception of ‘Visions of Beauty’ the inaugural British design exhibition in Dubai in April 2005, Dubai has been firmly put on British European Design Group’s agenda of ‘The place to be’. ‘Visions [...]

Zaha Hadid has created spectacular buildings all over the world – but never in Britain. As her first UK work is unveiled, she talks to Jonathan Glancey about the trials of being a woman architect, and why her new designs are inspired by the swamplands of southern Iraq
In the cavernous meeting room [...]