Taking place from May 18 to 22, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair rounds out NYCxDesign, 12 days of design events throughout the city. Here are a few happenings – both at the fair and offsite – we’re excited about.

When the Italian company opens its doors in SoHo, it will be turning a custom-designed doorknob made from the sustainable wood it manufactures. Azure will mark the occasion with a celebration on Monday, May 20, timed to coincide with New York Design Week.

For the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Northwestern District headquarters, ZGF Architects erected a striking high-performance and cost-effective structure on a former Seattle brownfield site.

Sean Godsell’s Design Hub in Melbourne features a kinetic curtain wall that will be studied for decades to come.

Sheep, shepherds and hunters ­animate the walls in Pierluigi Piu’s ­latest London eatery.

A hotel with a passion for art and the environment steals onto an island with an illicit past in Oslo’s fjord.

At Euroluce, the biennial lighting fair held in Milan last April, Philippe Starck revealed to Azure the dreams behind his three new fixtures for Italian lighting manufacturer Flos – and the challenges involved in creating them.

Designer and architect Ron Arad talks with Azure about PQ Eyewear, his new line of specs that explores 3D-printing and reinvents the hinge.