Practice: Materials

“We don’t want people to quite know what they’re seeing,” says Young.

Philips Lighting is improving energy efficiency while creating comfortable environments.

One of the world’s leaders in rolled zinc for construction is leading the way to educate North Ameri can sheet metal installers about the benefits and characteristics of working with its products. Across the United States and Canada, VMZINC® now offers a comprehensive series of instructional seminars on the use of zinc building materials and related…

Changing a wall landscape to increase storage or display new decorative objects is not only time-con suming, but tedious. But there are alternatives to the nail-and-hammer method for those who are less handy or who don’t want to waste time and energy plying out drywall anchors and patching up holes, among other messy tasks: A growing…

As New York City planners and developers continue to develop the long-neglected waterfronts along th e East River, a new proposal begins to take shape. In North Brooklyn, the former industrial site that was home to the Astral Oil Works refinery has finally been secured by the city after a contested battle to purchase the last…

Within the last decade, mixed-use and multifamily residential projects have been on the risearound t he world. Substantial movements toward urbanism and new solutions to housing supply shortages in cities like Los Angeles have spurred the need for denser, bigger housing. But while these projects have had a positive impact on the industry as a whole…

“We were a part of defining the project, not merely the creative problem-solvers.”

When New York City–based equities trader Laurence Cohen purchased one of the three floor-through uni ts in Obsidian House, he also heeded signs to treat the new home as a blank canvas. The 38-year-old had spent the previous decade in a low-ceilinged postwar apartment building in Greenwich Village, and Obsidian House’s Tribeca location, history of innovation…

Earlier this month, a popular Washington, D.C.–based architecture commentator took to one hometown n ewspaper to mull local developers’ propensities for all-glass new construction. Was the material’s popularity, combined with limitations like the city’s famous height moratorium, producing look-alike buildings? The thought piece imagined differentiating future projects with traditional materials or higher-flying design. And while these…