Featherweights: How Grimshaw Designs with Plastic Polymers
Lightweight plastics are changing how we build and design.
Inspiration
Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
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Crafting Practice: Kengo Kuma’s Cedar Wood Details
Exploring Cedar Construction in Contemporary Design
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Here Comes the Sun: The Most Realistic Artificial Skylight Ever?
This skylight utilizes the same scientific process that makes the sky blue.
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Nothingness: 10 Perfect Minimalist Interiors
The phrase "less is more" has never been more apt.
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Inside Outside: 10 Virtually Seamless Terrazzo Surfaces
Taking its name from 15th-century Italian mosaic artisans who swept marble chips out onto their terr aces, terrazzo floors are timeless.
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Painting With Light: The Ethereal Glass Façades of Steven Holl Architects
When asked what his favorite material is, Steven Holl responds simply, “light.”
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Building the Impossible: Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Free Flowing Façades
Discover how Coop Himmelb(l)au challenges the status-quo.
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Deep Envelopes: 10 Projects Rethinking the Recessed Window
These cleverly detailed windows help mitigate thermal heat gain and frame the surrounding context.
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Fantastic Façades: How OMA Pushes the Building Envelope
Discover how the renowned practice rethinks modern façades.
