Practice: Materials

Tron's neon-like lines of light remain hugely popular in design today.

“In the Spanish language the word Husos has at least three different meanings,” Diego Barajas and Ca milo García of Madrid-based practice Husos Architects explain of their namesake. “One is time zones. It also means a spindle, a tool used in weaving … particularly beautiful in its material delicacy, traditionally linked to domestic life. And phonetically,…

Considered the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, Lux eHome at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart will host the Chicago Design Summit. This residential design summit — the Midwest’s largest — will showcase 31 innovative programs, CEU seminars and events featuring industry luminaries, 11 strategic media partners and over a dozen notable editors,…

The wide array of digital design tools available to architects today can sometimes be a double-edge sword. While the variety of software is enabling architects to customize their workflows, having to switch from program to program can cause bottlenecks, hinder efficiency and make collaboration unnecessarily cumbersome. Prior to the creation of BIM, architects generated 3D…

The debate over technology in architecture is seemingly endless, with certain questions igniting the fires of forums across the internet each and every time they are put forward: Apple or PC? Revit or ArchiCAD? Rhino or 3ds Max? IPhone or Android? The list goes on and on, but these questions are never truly answerable unless…

As the global circulation of people, information and goods transforms, the world is becoming a small er place, and as a result, notions of belonging have become destabilized. Home was once the place for one’s roots, a symbolic source of familiarity and the collective accumulation of memories. However, since pushing mobility to the extreme, our understanding…

Summer may be coming to an end soon, but we’re going to continue celebrating seasonal fun with a loo k at some newly completed hospitality projects and their standout products, plus a crop of recent products for making getaways, lounges and recreational venues more welcoming, stylish and comfortable. PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Bronte RestaurantWe recently raved about new…

While climbing up the U.K. national rankings over the last 20 years, the University of Hertfordshire has also been busy developing an ambitious plan to completely reimagine its two campuses. After years of planning and months of construction, the first major part of this redevelopment was completed in March: a brand-new science center, by architecture…

A typical MIR artist is "a bit emo yet analytical, very stubborn and quite introverted."