Features revealing the design and development of the world’s most innovative building-products.
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…
Concrete is the humblest of materials, a hardwearing blend of gravel, sand, cement, and water that r emains associated with driveways and basements. But in the right hands, the utilitarian mixture can be elevated to high design. Take the work of architect John Pawson, for example. His minimalist concrete interiors in the Hotel Puerta America in…
Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Chad Oppenheim, FAIA, the Founder, Principal, and Lead Designer of Oppenheim Architecture + Design LLP, with Offices in…
MAS and Architizer have teamed up once again to bring you Pitching the City 2015, a signature anchor ing event of the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival. Offering a platform for fresh urban ideas, five innovative projects, diverse in scope and scale, will be pitched to both an esteemed panel of experts, who will offer advice…
Rita Catinella Orrell was previously products editor at Architectural Record and the founding editor of Snap, a quarterly building products magazine. she launched DesignyThings.com, a curated list of gifts, gadgets, and gear for consumers, in 2011 and Architects-Toybox.com, a resource for architects and designers looking for the latest building products, in 2013. This post originally…
Foamspace is the winning project of the 2015 Street Architecture Prize Competition hosted by Storefr ont for Art and Architecture and the New Museum as part of the biennial IDEAS CITY festival. The brainchild of SecondMedia, this mobile work of architecture and digital platform of financial tools will allow members to propose and vote on the…