Curated lists of the best new building-products, materials and design solutions to inspire your next project.
A staple in modern greenhouses, polycarbonate panels have made their way into residential architectu re in recent years, where the same light-diffusing effect that makes them perfect for plant nurseries has a number of pretty cool corollaries. These tough thermoplastics make for great daylighting. From the outside, their translucence provides an impression of a space’s interior…
Long a staple of the architectural diet, so to speak, bakeries have evolved into multifunctional pla ces intended for much more than simply selling bread, attracting people to stay and eat in sophisticated, stylish surroundings. With Passover drawing to a close this weekend, we’d like to mark the end of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread…
Craft beer has really taken off in the last 30 years, especially in the United States. The number of breweries was at its lowest in 1978, when there were only 89 breweries nationwide, but by the 1980s, a new generation of beer makers set up shop. While Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada have become enormous…
This past February, Generator Hostels opened a new location in Parisnear the Gare du Nord train stat ion. The string of hostel locations in Europe are all designed in the fashion of repurposing the existing architecture. As the story goes, the Paris location was once a pair of ramshackle 1980s insurance office buildings before it was…
Looking to brighten up your lighting scheme? Our product catalog is a one-stop shop for all variety of lighting options — from lifelike virtual skylights to sculptural floor lamps made from reclaimed wood. We’ve picked only a handful of our favorites from the database of thousands of products, which are also searchable by projects that…
As the baby boomers grow older, they increasingly need places to do so with grace. Sometimes this is a design solution that converts a home so the elderly can “age-in-place,” but often it means relocating to an assisted-living facility or nursing home. This expanding architectural field is open to many design innovations, from technologies and…
The intense heat, different levels of local construction knowledge and the availability of materials all factor into designs.
Due to quirk of the 2015 calendar, this year sees the unusual occurrence of Easter overlapping with Passover. For those of you who are celebrating the freedom meal of Passover at home, we have gathered a collection of synagogues that express more chutzpah in channeling an emotional story than your average architecture. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregationby…
Architects are frequently accused of living life with their head in the clouds, preoccupied with fan tastical worlds disconnected from reality. Maybe so, but when those worlds are as beautifully illustrated as those in Nir Levie’s “Outskirts Of Vision”, who could blame us? The graphic artist’s epic 220-page novel chronicles young architect Ben’s adventures in a…