Features revealing the design and development of the world’s most innovative building-products.
In a recent survey of trends in American rental housing, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that fewer than one percent of units include a basic suite of universal-design accommodations. “The picture is far worse among one- to three-family houses,” says Richard Duncan, executive director of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based RL Mace Universal…
In order to create an ambitious indoor/outdoor eatery at Miami’s renowned Bal Harbour Shops, the in- house design team for Hillstone Restaurant Group had to go through a particular kind of window shopping. In turning to Hope’s®, leading manufacturer of custom steel and bronze windows and doors, Project Architect Rakesh Patel found the solutions to help…
More than ever before, clean photography is indispensable to the presentation of architecture. It is a way for architects to record their work and allow it to be shared vastly through the extensive networks of social media channels and editorial platforms. In a recent interview with Architizer, Steven Holl of SHA exclaimed that he found…
Erasing is also a form of creating, strange as that may sound. But last week, British artist Charlot te Mann demonstrated this notion at a boutique in Brooklyn with her site-specific work, Erasing Is Leaving a Mark. Her canvas, a wall treated with Wolf-Gordon’s Wink dry-erase coating, enabled Mann to not only add, but also remove…
Six years ago, a perplexing anomaly sat on display in New York City’s Museum of Art and Design (aka MAD). The object, a wood chair, appeared to be solid at the top, but the legs faded into nothingness as if they were dematerializing right before our eyes. This oddity was no physics experiment gone awry,…
A computer-generated demonstration offered a tantalizing glimpse of how the product could animate th e exterior of luxury skyscrapers across the globe.
From an established furniture-maker that’s more than a century old to a fledgling brand that’s just getting off the ground, this diverse grouping of companies has introduced some of the handsomest chairs we’ve seen in the last several months — ones that have the potential to become tomorrow’s iconic pieces. Bernhardt Design: LiltInspired by childhood…
Continuing our coverage of Chamber Gallery’s architectural exhibition “Unpacking the Cube” curated b y Andrew Zuckerman, Architizer met with David Leven and Stella Betts of New York-based architecture firm Levenbetts at their studio in Chelsea to hear about their contribution to the show. Asked to produce a series of objects reflective of its conceptual process in…
From creating a focal point to a backdrop that blends in seamlessly with the interior architecture a nd furnishings, wall coverings pull double duty, offering an aesthetic or color and an added layer of protection against stains and scuffs. The Fall/Winter season has seen a number of exciting introductions in this product category, particularly for the…