Practice: Materials

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With tiny-home living and micro-apartments still trending, both established and fledgling product de signers have been exploring how best to furnish these tight environments. Several months ago, for instance, Yves Béhar launched his moving multifunctional wall system Ori. Now there’s a new concept that, instead of a moving and transforming wall, proposes a self-contained system akin…

A peculiar perforated canopy with moving mirrored discs popped up in Dubai this week, choreographing shadows onto the ground and shielding pedestrians from the region’s harsh sun. But it’s not some kinetic art installation or just an ordinary canopy. Dubbed Sun&Shade, it’s the first working prototype of a digital shading structure developed by Carlo Ratti…

This year, we’re teaming up with ​DuPont Surfaces to create a better, bolder and even more beautiful award than ever before.

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we’ve got sweet treats on the mind, particularly the k ind born out of the design world. Take, for instance, Kohler. Yes, that Kohler. Last month at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS), the mega company known for such successful brands as Kallista, Ann Sacks and Robern served…

Whereas an earlier generation of sustainable architecture advocated sensitizing entire buildings to natural phenomena like solar exposure and prevailing wind patterns, more recently the movement has focused on the details. Environmental Product Declarations, Health Product Declarations and Declare labeling initiatives, in particular, ensure that a building’s many pieces embody the ethics of the whole puzzle.…

In every historical period and architectural style, staircases have been the aesthetic and social he art of a building interior. From the medieval priest relaying a heavenly message from atop a spiraling pulpit to Miamians descending Morris Lapidus’s “staircase to nowhere” to command the attention of partygoers, steps have made the scene. In the 21st century,…

In recent years, architects have warmed up to new aesthetic and materials innovations on tried and t rue cladding materials.

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