Practice: Materials

Architizer explores Enoteca dai Tosi, an elegant intervention that utilizes the qualities of Matera’ s material and historical composition.

Last week, the A&D industry gathered in Chicago at the Merchandise Mart for the 49th annual contract furnishings fair known as NeoCon, and Architizer was there to scour the show to discover the best new products — including these innovative acoustic and privacy solutions.

From the industrial lofts in Bushwick to the enclaves of Victorian and Queen Anne houses in Ditmas P ark, there’s no part of the world quite like Brooklyn. So when Temple, Texas–based Wilsonart, an engineered surfaces company, was looking around for inspiration for a fresh line of laminates, the Wilsonart Design Team and eight select designers…

Smart toilets aren’t a new concept, but while they’ve been enjoying popularity abroad, they haven’t made a splash — no pun intended — stateside until more recently

Inspired by Auguste Perret and the masters of the exposed-concrete architecture philosophy known as béton brut, Randolph Gerner, founding principal of Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, (GKV) Architects, DPC, has made concrete the cornerstone of his design style. Gerner admires how architects like Perret used concrete to celebrate the structure of buildings above all else —…

Each spring for the last 46 years, architects, designers and future homebuyers have flocked to Flori da’s Marion County Parade of Homes — where dozens of newly constructed model houses await — to get a glimpse of what’s new and trending in residential design. This year, two homes in particular attracted buzz not only for their…

“Let’s crank some metal,” reads the large mural on a factory wall at Chemetal, the Easthampton, Mass achusetts–based manufacturer of metal designs and laminates. Walk around the plant and you’ll see people wearing T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the same saying. “It’s fun, but it’s also what we do here,” says Geoff Schaefer, Creative Director and…

Offering a wide range of designs, Wilsonart has long been a go-to in the industry for engineered sur faces such as High Pressure Laminate, best-matched Edgebanding, Solid Surface and Adhesive products for just about any space. And in recent years, it expanded its engineered surfaces portfolio to include Quartz, providing design professionals with even more options…

According to a recent study conducted by NACE International, bridges, pipelines, airplanes and just about any building with steel components all face a common and surprisingly costly enemy: rust. As the major international organization that monitors corrosion, NACE wrapped a two-year global study with a comprehensive report totaling the cost of corrosion as roughly equal…