Light+Building, International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology, will be presenting outstanding and particularly innovative design at the Frankfurt Fair & Exhibition Centre from 6 to 11 April 2008. A special show there in Hall 4.2 (Stand G.41) will feature 32 products which have received the Design Plus Award. A total of 187 products were [...]

Leipzig’s duo event comprising the Z - Subcontracting Fair and the intec is once again expecting more than 1,000 exhibitors from all over Europe from February 26 to 29, 2008. Both trade fairs are closely connected with the industrial development taking place in Central Germany, where the most prominent industrial segments are automobile and [...]

If Europe wants to meet its 20% binding target for renewable energy by 2020, it must increase its use of offshore wind, delegates heard at the Offshore Wind Conference in Berlin, Germany. Two concrete steps towards large scale deployment of offshore wind were taken: the European Commission announced an offshore action plan for 2008, and [...]

To support the necessary growth and expansion of offshore wind in order to meet the EU’s 20% renewables target, several barriers need to be overcome. Low feed-in tariffs for offshore, limited and costly grid connections and complex authorisation procedures are seen as key obstacles by the offshore industry, delegates of the European Offshore Wind Energy [...]

The International Trade Fair for Cleaning Systems, Building Management and Services, with its accompanying programme of conventions, will be taking place from 18 to 21 September and is the most important trade show of the year for the European cleaning industry. Applications have been received in particular from the major suppliers of cleaning machinery and [...]

The Kadiyev family have long been builders in Chechnya, but no one has had a job quite like that facing architect Dzhalal Kadiyev: reconstructing the entire city of Grozny from the ashes of war.
Kadiyev, a small, bird-like man sporting large spectacles, is unfazed by the task ahead of him and often draws inspiration from [...]

Debuting only last year, HI DESIGN, the 2nd annual business meetings forum for the hospitality interior design community which took place at the Intercontinental Berlin on 26- 28 April 2007, saw a 40% increase in the number of attending delegates.
“This leap in numbers has come as no surprise to us. HI DESIGN was borne out [...]

Could it be that we’re entering a golden age in concert hall design?
The very idea may sound a little crazy, given how adamantly some people insist that the audience for classical music is slowly dying off.
To those skeptics the current explosion of new concert spaces may seem nothing but a last-ditch attempt to attract younger [...]

MIPIM isn’t just about big property deals and even bigger parties.
Daniel Libeskind, the internationally-renowned architect responsible for Manchester’s Imperial War Museum of the North will open the MIPIM 2007 conference programme with a keynote address devoted to the trends in world architecture.
Acknowledged as one of the most influential architects of his generation, award-winning Libeskind was [...]

THE Bauhaus Interior: Idea, Reality, Utopia Exhibition will open today at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ) at 7.30pm.
Bauhaus-Archive (Berlin) deputy director Dr Christian Wolsdorff is to give the opening lecture at the event, first of its kind in the region.
A reception with art historians Dr Jochen Sokoly and Karin [...]

For Daniel Libeskind, the master planner of Ground Zero in New York, architecture and controversy go hand-in-hand.
Libeskind’s design was chosen for the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site of the former World Trade Center destroyed by the September 11 attacks in 2001, but the rebuilding of the Lower Manhattan area has been dogged for nearly five years by [...]

Peter Blake, an architect, critic and former editor of Architectural Forum who was known for his lively critiques of Modernism and his friendships with artists, died yesterday at a hospice near his home in Branford, Conn. He was 86.
The cause was complications from a respiratory infection, said his son, Casey Nelson Blake.
One of Mr. Blake’s [...]