Berlin

3XN's Cube Berlin is an ambitious office building in Germany that takes the form of a large glass box. It provides office staff with control over their surroundings using a smartphone app and is designed to "learn" their habits over time.

RoboRace is shaping up as an intriguing motorsport category, but there's still plenty of work to be done before autonomous racers are trading paint like their human-driven counterparts. This footage taken on board a DevBot prototype around the Berlin ePrix Circuit proves that point.

Rotterdam's OMA has been given the nod to extensively renovate Berlin's famous Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store. The firm will mostly focus on modernizing the interior by splitting it into four sections, but a distinctive new glass roof will also be added.

Whoever said "size doesn't matter" clearly wasn't an architect, because trying to fit an apartment into a 21 sq m (226 sq ft) room is no mean feat. That's exactly what architecture studio Spamroom has done through clever use of available vertical space and a multi-purpose central unit.

Climbing gyms don't usually look anything like real mountains, but a German company has a plan to construct Berlin-area climbing "mountains" out of an artificial rock material that looks and feels more authentic.

A design by international architecture firm OMA has been selected for the new Axel Springer media center in Berlin. The design is aimed at encouraging collaborative working in a digital age.

Located just outside the center of Berlin, Propeller Island City Lodge is an unusual hotel with "artistic" rooms that include flying beds and upside down fittings.

Designed for musicians, the nhow Berlin is claimed to be Europe's first-ever music hotel.

German architect Jakob Tigges has unleashed a daring plan to create a man-made mountain in Berlin – 1km tall with a snow-capped peak. But is it a hoax or a hopeful plan?

A new joint project announced by Daimler AG and energy provider RWE AG could be another sign that the tide is turning in terms of developing widespread systems that will allow EV's to make the transition to the mainstream.

December 6, 2005 The 7-speed Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) system developed for the 406km/h, 987bhp Bugatti Veyron sportscar will be shown for the first time