With his proposal called "Hortus ex Machina", architect André Günther from andArchitecture has won the competition for the the Materia Inspiration Centre in Amsterdam.The runner-up was the design by Dutchydesign.

At the 26th of August the Danish organisation of the Bella centre in Copenhagen opened the permanent design exhibition and the first Scandinavian material library, powered by Materia.

The DOEN | Materiaalprijs was created in 2009 to promote sustainable design practice where the core values of innovation and sustainability go hand in hand with style and functionality.

Heavy Metal? What about soft aluminum, flexible stainless steel, foamed aluminum, copper coatings and steel mesh!

'Fossils' is a production method for casting concrete, developed by recent industrial design graduate of Shenkar College in Tel Aviv, Ofir Zucker.