15 Products for Designing Sustainable, Healthy Buildings and Interiors
Metropolis interviews experts from Perkins+Will, ZGF, and HOK about navigating the plethora of industry- and product-specific sustainability certifications.
Building Products
Mitsubishi Electric Outfits New Cottages at Award-Winning Boutique Hotel, Inn at Willow Grove
advertisement from: Historic plantation turned boutique resort and spa, The Inn at Willow Grove, in Orange, Virginia, recently underwent a major expansion, opening 10 additional rooms within two new cottage buildings. The central structure of The Inn, a manor house…
With Pier 17, Channel Glass Brings a Contemporary Edge to the South Street Seaport
The building's icy, transparent envelope deploys an unconventional type of glass in a crenellated profile that, according to SHoP's Gregg Pasquarelli, suggests “almost a contemporary version of pier architecture.”
8 Architectural Products to Inspire Your Next Design
This selection of buildings—ranging from Atlanta to Kansas City to Basel, Switzerland—highlight stand-out materials and products.
These Architects Used a Common Construction Product to Form an Undulating Urban Landscape
An office tower in Chicago is integrated with its surrounding landscape through an increasingly popular use of geofoam, a classic building product.
NanaWall Turned This Manhattan Apartment Into an Indoor/Outdoor Dwelling
Where open space is a hot commodity, NanaWall brings the outside in.
Off the Grid
Provocative architecture highlights the craft and tradition of Spanish tile.
Clear Breakthrough: Zospeum Takes Translucent Concrete to Next Level
Concrete as a material has been unchanged as a material since the 19th century, until now. Translucent concrete is here to change the look of architecture.
Inside Porcelanosa HQ, New York's New House of Tile
At Porcelanosa’s Manhattan flagship, architecture and product unite to craft a unique consumer experience.
Timber’s Transformation: An Old Building Material Reborn
Leers Weinzapfel Associates used highly engineered timber as the primary structural system in their plans for the University of Massachusetts Amherst Design Building.
Inside ARTIC, the Polymer Cathedral Connecting Southern California
Bringing eight modes of transportation together was not the only complex problem at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC). The engineering firm BuroHappold worked with HOK, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Clark Construction not only to build the largest span of…
How Louis Kahn Unlocked Concrete's Expressive Potential
Two painstakingly researched books reveal the depths of the architect’s material explorations.
At UN Geneva Campus, Behnisch Architekten Breaks New Ground for Modern Timber Construction
Behnisch Architekten inserts a sustainable wooden conference hall into Geneva’s maze of glass buildings, and breaks new ground for modern timber construction.
How AECOM Engineered Smiljan Radić's Serpentine Pavilion
AECOM specially engineers fiberglass to achieve Smiljan Radić’s vision for the Serpentine Pavilion.
What "Design Empathy" Has to Do With the Workplace
The Allsteel designer talks about workplace design and interaction, her work on autism, and office trends.
Concrete Furniture, Brutalism's New Frontier?
Jess Sorel’s outdoor furniture designs take advantage of Landscape Forms’ high-performance material.
How Arup Engineered The Living's Mushroom Tower
The firm explains what it took to build this year's MoMA PS1 YAP pavilion.
Classic Alexander Girard Patterns Get a Design Upgrade
Skyline Design finds that the midcentury designer’s famous patterns work very well with contemporary materials.
Watch How Eventscape Fabricated Three-Story Origami Columns
These aren't your average columns
Konstantin Grcic and Abet Laminati Team Up for Blinged-Out Wallcovering
Konstantin Grcic and Abet Laminati innovate a process that applies crystals to laminates with a light hand.
