Practice: Materials

There's a little something for everyone with a designer's eye.

“We don’t have any conventional projects,” says Ryan King of FOAM.

Released on September 14, 2016, the latest edition of Vectorworks design and BIM software offers mor e than 100 updates and plenty of new tools to make designing, collaborating and sharing ideas with clients easier than ever. According to Dr. Biplab Sarkar, who was recently named the company’s CEO, 70 percent of these additions were actually…

“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…