Features revealing the design and development of the world’s most innovative building-products.
With more modular systems and easily customizable stock fixtures available today, it’s easier than e ver to create a truly original light installation that provides illumination and visual interest.
For architect Ion Webster, jumpstarting his move to virtual reality was as easy as going to work in the morning.
A brand-new development is turning the paint can on its head: Leading American paint company Benjami n Moore has unveiled a new product that adds the dimension of soft, leather-like touch. Called Century, the paint debuted in New York City yesterday with wall displays coated in the product to demonstrate this amazing tactility, the result of…
Nearly two decades ago, window giant Pella made news when it launched its Architect Series, a line o f finely crafted and detailed wood windows customized to each project’s individual specifications and aesthetic needs. Now the manufacturer has expanded the series with new hardware options and divvied up products into distinct categories — Architect Series Contemporary,…
GENS’s design process begins with a deep analysis of a site and a research into appropriate material s in order to achieve clean architecture.
In the past, design-centric audiophiles often had to look to costly high-end brands for home audio s ystems that could blend in with their décor, while commercial businesses had to sacrifice ceiling or wall space to accommodate audio components. But thanks to the technologies that are available today, both have access to a multitude of midrange…
It’s not often that you’re told to imagine what the wedding registry of Charles Eames and Judy Jetso n would be like. But that’s just how engineering and design firm RockPaperRobotdescribes its work and credo. Aspiring to create furnishings that are at once aesthetically handsome, functional and robotics inspired, RockPaperRobot has, to date, conceived and developed…
If you’ve been following the building products industry in recent years, you’ve likely heard of the sustainable timber product Kebony. Among some of the high-profile projects this wood has graced are the Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park in Queens, New York (by Thomas Balsley Associates and Weiss/Manfredi), and LeFrak Center, Prospect Park in Brooklyn (by…
Elissa Brown’s directorial debut film, “Windshield: A Vanished Vision,” is an intimate look into her grandparents’ collaboration with modernist architect Richard Neutra.