Create natural connections and health benefits within the built environment through thoughtfully-designed custom fireplaces. By including fire features within a biophilic-centered design approach, there are opportunities for infusing a space with natural elements that are visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile. Custom fire features not only deliver ambiance, social centering, and visual captivation - but also create an element of relaxation and harmony that is essential to biophilic design.
The Calming Architecture of Color and Fire
Achieve dynamic multisensory features of light, color, heat, and sound through fire which promotes physical and mental wellness. A fire feature crafted to be harmonious with the overall design intention offers comfort, calm, and security in the built environment. For your clients and projects striving for interior spaces that support a wellness mission, the sensory principles of a fire can help deliver the overall impression and provide the health-inducing benefits they desire.
Fall Selling Strategies
Add these sales strategies to your 4th quarter to-do list to increase sales and add projects to your calendar.
Design Directions
In their exploration of post-pandemic design direction, ARCHITECT Editor-in-Chief Paul Makovsky and Design Director and futurist, Royce Epstein delve into topics of Hybridization (redefining work/live), Sustainability (nature and culture), and the Metaverse and Tech (designing beyond the physical). See what they found.
Multidimensional Feature Wall Designs for Pools, Spas and Saunas
Create a bold statement with customizable walls and water features to enhance the pool, spa and sauna experience. Mario Romano has perfected the art of digital fabrication with textured walls that present modern, peaceful designs for your next pool project.
The exclusive line of wall surfaces made with Corian® Solid Surface brings the intricate to life - turning your space into a work of art.
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Finding the Right Touch Point: How Multifamily Can Meet the Resident Expectations of Renters by Choice
Jamie Gorski, SVP and Chief Experience Officer at GID, discusses meeting the needs of the more affluent renter. Hear her insights and lessons on navigating the changing rental environment and what she has discovered about this demographic that is helping to keep their large portfolio tenanted.
6 Lifestyle Shifts Influencing Building Design
To make their homes more comfortable, functional and aesthetically pleasing homeowners are willing to spend more. Here are the trends and product innovations that are shaping what is important today.
Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Wood Buildings (Print Course)
In this course, you’ll explore foundational concepts of prefabricated construction, along with its potential advantages. Materials cover the unique benefits of prefabricated light wood-frame and mass timber construction, including types of prefabricated timber systems, assemblies, and wood products used in offsite manufacturing.
Case studies throughout demonstrate a wide range of sustainable prefabricated building examples using advanced light-frame and mass timber construction.
7 Exterior Trends in 2022
See what changes 2022 brought to the table for building pros. From exterior revitalization to outdoor living, here is what is hot this year.
Specifying Fenestration Products for Occupant Health and Well-Being (Print Course)
This course will explore the WELL Building Standard, which is increasingly being used by projects (often in conjunction with LEED) to demonstrate the role buildings play in the health and well-being of occupants. We will cover the 10 Concepts and related Features of WELL, then dig deeper to examine how windows and glazing can help projects earn points in this rating system under the Light, Air, Thermal Comfort, Mind, Materials, and Sound Concepts.