The Generative Space Award recognizes break-through designs that improve health and healthcare. Your mission for the competition is to clearly demonstrate the integration of the physical and social environments to make your community "a Place to Flourish". Continue

In London there is still a strong demand for housing and for public functions in downtown areas where the presence of public transportation makes the site extremely strategic. Continue

Architect Giancarlo Zema shares his vision on how the future’s design will evolve and why we are approaching a “floating experience”. In this interview with Zema, he shares his ideas and explains what his field, semi-submerged architecture, is all about. Continue

Currently the construction of Bella Sky hotel in Copenhagen is the largest building site in Denmark. This four star hotel will open in May next year, as one of Scandinavia’s largest hotels. Continue

Foster + Partners has launched a masterplan, named City Park, for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. Continue

Experience is sometimes overrated. Too many designers are focused on what they have learnt during their academic years, and forget the importance of truly being creative and make new strategies for each of the products they manufacture. This will destroy you as a designer: repetition kills creativity. Continue

The vision for the AG café in Nagoya City Aichi, Japan, was to mix the concept of a gallery and a café. Kidosaki Architects Studio, with Satoshi Itasaka as the principal, aimed to offer a place where people could meet and look at art at the same time. Continue

It’s time to break away from the herd, and think for yourself. But having the will to win isn't always key; you need more to make it in a market that is brutally competitive. You need a direction, you need a strategy. Continue

People can easily take your idea and copy your strategic positioning if you let them. Now, if your strategy is well performed in action, it'll be much more difficult to copy your concept. Continue

Showroom by Héctor Serrano Studio for the leading Bathroom brand Roca. The space shows the results of the International Design Contest, Jump the Gap 2009 at 100% Design London. Continue

Visiondivision decided to design one specific shoebox that can be multiplied and stacked into nearly any form, allowing different store-layouts, but at the same time being easily identifiable as a Mangrolia Shoe store. Continue

When the Italian Post-Modern Design was born in the middle of the 1980s, Tokyo born designer Madoka Sato, saw how design could be experienced and explored in many different ways. Continue

Designer Satoshi Itasaka has redesigned his grandmother's antique chair with the help of new material. Though, it was an attractive chair with a beautiful silhouette, he says. Continue

This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method. Continue

Architect and designer Setsu Ito was introduced to his current profession as his father who is a sculpture artist constantly told him about how great architecture was and brought home architecture and design books. Continue

Most of our thoughts are very repetitive and if you think about an idea or problem in the same way you probably will get the same results and ideas as you always have gotten. All people have the ability to have creative ideas based on their memories and old thoughts. But without any effort or without any conscious will, nothing creative will break through. Continue

If you put the problem in a different context you will definitely change the way you think about it. A great way to do this is to imagine that you're actually the problem. This is basically taking the perspective of the problem as if the problem had its own experience. Continue

Have a vision; clearly tell, and express it. – Jun Igarashi. Architect, Jun Igarashi was born year 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan. He quickly in life took interest in architecture as arts had been more of a tradition in his family. Continue