Features revealing the design and development of the world’s most innovative building-products.
There is an old slap-knee that goes: “What does the flag of modern architecture look like? – A white house on a white field.” Sarcasm aside, there is a grain of truth to it. From the early works of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier to the Bauhaus under Walter Gropius to the Weissenhof Estate outside…
Arper refers to it as work-life while Knoll says it’s a r/evolution. The work-life r/evolution is one way to describe the many vogue terms brands are using to nominalize the newest in contemporary commercial furniture design on display at NeoCon, at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart from today, June 15, until Wednesday, June 17. Knoll, for one,…
One of the most practical new building products on display during ICFF, held at the Javits Center du ring the NYCxDesign festival, was a moveable wall system with the clever name of Tudelü. Designed and engineered in Brooklyn, Tudelü’s retractable roll-up walls create privacy or more space at the touch of a remote-controlled button. Intended for both residential and commercial projects, the material-layered wall comes in a variety of colors and materials, including felt, wood, faux leather, and two soundproofing options.
With last month’s bicoastal shows and NeoCon around the corner, we’re well into design-s how season at this point, and at least a few product trends have become … concrete. If you weren’t able to make it to ICFF last month, we’ve got a rundown of some of the most interesting new products from the show…
By modeling design in three dimensions, Building Information Modeling (BIM) can increase productivit y across the board for designers. It surpasses the 2D drawing process by streamlining coordination between collaborators and alerting all users to collisions between systems that previously would not have been detected until the field. If the benefits of BIM are well established,…
The lighting brand Ilex Architectural Lighting was founded on a made-in-America premise “in order to maintain our company’s domestic manufacturing base,” says Ben Duggan, who is Vice President of Product Development of both Ilex and its parent company Norwell Lighting. Yet the East Taunton, Mass.-based executive also notes that Ilex had perhaps branded itself too…
Organic and undulating in nature, wood is rarely perfectly linear or a platonic solid. Nevertheless, humans have long adopted the abundant raw material to serve their own ends, and, nowadays, designers continue to explore its possibilities. From organic and largely untouched, to repurposed to the manufactured, geometric, and parametric, these designs start with raw timber…
With the advent of mobile and ever-increasing reach of data networks, the very notion of the cloud h as taken on a new meaning in contemporary culture. The omnipresent yet radically decentralized concept may seem at odds with buildings, but rest assured the word perfectly captures the philosophy of New York City-based Clouds Architecture Office. Established…
Calling all American architects and interior designers! Hansgrohe+Axor have begun their nationwide s earch for the second annual Das Design competition. Whether it’s a five-star luxury suite in NYC or a midcentury renovation in California, the Black Forest-based company is searching for recent projects that have incorporated Hansgrohe and Axor products in a novel way. As…