Practice: Materials

Handles rest on Vaia’s signature rosette bases, a supple touch that suggests the organic. Their eleg ant curves mark a shift away from the sharper angles of recent collections.

Years of persistent probing by VELUX have yielded a groundbreaking new commercial skylight: The Dyna mic Dome, created after long conversations with the architects and designers who spec commercial lighting for warehouses, retailers and distribution centers. “We did two-plus years of research and design work on it,” says Ross Vandermark, national product manager at VELUX. “Commercial…

Everybody — employees of vastly different workplaces from Facebook to the Federal Reserve Bank — kno ws that standing desks offer a range of health benefits. Research by the Mayo Clinic, for one, found that employees utilizing sit-stand desks were seated 91 minutes fewer per day, lowering their risk of obesity, cancer, back pain and depression.…

It may be weeks since we returned from Milan Design Week 2017, but there’s still so much to sh are from this adventure. So we continue our recap with a look at 10 of the brands that stood out to us during the official Salone del Mobile furniture fair and top picks from their exhibitor booths.…

From public artwork in Los Angeles to sustainable designs looking to save energy, Cascade Architectu ral has been involved in projects around the world providing solutions to practical concerns while adding a new aesthetic dimension. Fabricoil®, the company’s signature coiled wire fabric, offers designers the opportunity to turn sunshades, space dividers and ceilings into something beautiful.…

From networking to sightseeing, there were almost as many reasons to go to the AIA Conference on Arc hitecture as there were attendees. Yet there is one goal that every participant of the American Institute of Architects’ annual convention has in common: firsthand exposure to the latest building products and design technologies at the expo portion.…

This category challenges you to create the next best innovative design for disaster relief or a refu gee crisis.

The Yale Art and Architecture Building may be the best known work by noted Brutalist pioneer Paul Ru dolph, but his sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot campus for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received renewed attention in recent years. Hired by the university in 2007, Boston-based designLAB architects spent six years renovating and extending the campus’s innovative centerpiece,…

Saying that British technology company Dyson Ltd. is committed to research and development could be the understatement of the century. The company spends $8.8 million every week on R&D for new products. It operates a campus in the United Kingdom where 1,500 of its engineers and scientists work on future technology. There, they ably demonstrate…