Re-engineered hinges allow for a fully flush installation of the Freedom built-in wine columns.
Kirei Windfall engineered panels clad cabinetry and walls in old-growth wood salvaged from demolition sites.
Crafted from brushed aluminum and high-pressure laminate, these pulls blend with the metal accents and appliances in modern or European-style kitchens.
High-speed ribbon elements in the 36-inch Electric Cooktop heat up fast and give cooks precise and even temperature control.
Northstar 1950s-style refrigerators now offer cold beer on tap with the Brew Master draft system.
Dacor's latest double wall oven features a digital temperature probe that senses when food is done.
The Adjustable Eco-Downlight lasts 50,000 hours and uses only 16 watts.
The 3D look of the Ebb & Flow stone and glass mosaic might be deceiving, but the tiles are smooth and easy to clean.
The Beside collection of porcelain stoneware explores a new concept in Italian tile design: the back side.
A closed coil and magnetic hook-up replace tangled pull-down faucet hoses in Blanco's Culina semi-professional faucet.
Aster Cucine designs each Avenue luxury kitchen system to fit any kitchen space.
The Omnia architectura wall-mounted toilet hides its tank within the wall to increase floor space.
Crafted from Duralight, an acrylic-based composite, the tubs in the Paper collection slip comfortably into any setting.
The Elle floor-mount washbasin unit unites its sink with table space, towel holders, and storage.
Artist Patricia Urquiola classifies her Bas-Relief handmade extruded porcelain tiles as a more rigorous and less romantic exploration of the theme of eroded cracks.
Laufen now has a line of faucets to complete its ceramic bath furniture collections such as Mimo, a whimsical take on a modern model.
The raised relief on the Coimbra Bronze Vessel recalls Portuguese artistry of the 15th and 16th centuries.
This contemporary floor-mount tub filler stands straight and sharp, giving modern freestanding tubs a statuesque companion.
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The baby boomer generation is again poised to impact the housing market, this time with the full thrust of its punch intertwined with the financial solvency of its members’ kids.
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With strong connections to the kitchen and usually offering ample daylight, breakfast rooms are used for much more than sitting down to the morning meal.
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Economists from the Associated General Contractors of America, the AIA, and Reed Construction Data addressed the expected length and strength of the construction market’s recovery in a webinar May 3. The private residential sector received significant attention as the discussion evaluated how...
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The Center for Housing Policy recently published a report concluding that adults age 65 and older soon will face a severe shortage of affordable housing that meets their physical and social needs.
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Sustainable building in the market for single-family homes should contintue to increase, offering builders and remodelers who can keep pace the opportunity to boost business during a period of slow recovery, a new report from McGraw-Hill finds.
Artex reintroduced Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala’s TW002, a turn-molded opalescent glass pendant originally designed in 1951, for this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
Nils Finne, AIA, has long exemplified the highly skilled regional practitioner. Based in Seattle, he draws on Asian, Scandinavian, and mid-century modernist influences in work that distills the environmental and cultural currents of the contemporary Pacific Northwest.
The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) announced the winners of its 2012 Design Competition on Tuesday at its annual show in Chicago. The winners were pulled from a collection of nearly 500 entries from association members across the U.S. and Canada.
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Registration for the fifth annual WaterSmart Innovations Conference and Exposition opened Tuesday.
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An early spring boost to housing activity likely has left the market in “pause mode,” according to David Crowe, chief economist at the NAHB. And although the long-term growth charts upward, Crowe and other market-watchers who participated in the association’s spring construction webinar last week...
Jeld-Wen is targeting its four-legged clientele by adding a separate, secure-closing pet panel to its Vinyl Sliding Patio Door as a way for pets to easily move between indoor and outdoor spaces.
For the first time in decades, the famed office furniture design company once again is offering a line of outdoor furniture.
The Hearst Celestial Wood Series features hand-painted or carved wood tiles that interpret the California compound’s opulent design.
A new line of glass sinks from Modono Glass uses a proprietary color-changing thin-film coating to give off a dynamic look on the vessel installations.
The new Sweets App is an all-in-one mobile source for building products, CAD details, and BIM objects.
Das Haus’ passive model can be seen in action across the U.S. and Canada through November. Upcoming stops include Toronto, Cambridge, Mass., and Washington, D.C.
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According to the quarterly Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS), the home remodeling market is predicted to pick up steadily throughout the rest of the year.
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Private residential construction permits and starts for March 2012 show significant improvement when compared with the figures for the same time period last year.
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Contractors face difficulty passing new costs to consumers according to the AGC .
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Private construction’s 5.6 percent February hiring rate in February is higher than the national average, but still represents dip in industry growth.
Richard Olsen looks back at the long-standing practice of building new houses with reclaimed elements and old architectural parts in Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design.
The NAHB recently estimated money spent on home renovation and remodeling projects for every county in the United States. Analysts used figures from the American Housing Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau and HUD along with the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, which contains county-level...
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Lack of knowledge and fear of being monitored remain sources of hesitancy says a survey by energy market intelligence firm Pike Research, which looked at what consumers want from energy management systems, their opinions of current products on the market, and how likely cost affects decisions.
Turnstyle Designs’ Scroll cabinet pulls borrow the aesthetic of ancient scrolls in a handle application.
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After five years of decline, 2011 finally saw some growth in the construction jobs sector and figures from early this year indicate that job growth for builders might become a steady trend.
Working in conjunction with the Easton, Pa.,-based company, Surfaces has translated Crayola’s iconic bright colors into equally vivid glass mosaic tiles in either solid or variegated hues.
Custom-crafted bathroom sinks replicate the organic forms of water-carved canyons out of laser-cut engineered concrete by Gore Design.
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I've been impressed on this visit with how my old hometown, DC, seems to be thriving, and that leads me to reflect on how cities in general will fare in the coming post-recession.
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The AIA 2012 session "Connect to the World and Community: Region-Based Design and Its Connection to Culture, Community, and Place" on Thursday, May 17, was packed.
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At the AIA 2012 National Convention in Washington, D.C., Charles R. Heuer, FAIA, Esq., presented “Did You Get the Owner’s Manual for Your Practice?”
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I've been impressed on this visit with how my old hometown, DC, seems to be thriving, and that leads me to reflect on how cities in general will fare in the coming post-recession.
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I'm in DC for the AIA Convention and, it turns out, just in time for a dust-up over Frank Gehry's proposed design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
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Here's a good give-and-take on whether it's smart for first-time buyers to make their move--or really, really not.
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Danish playground design firm Monstrum performs magic.
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Liz Diller's TED Talk on Diller, Scofido + Renfro's inflatable addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
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If you think designing a truly efficient building for your region is a challenge, try making one work in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
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Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the days when my shelter needs were simpler, but I'm fascinated with compact, portable dwelling pods.
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On Saturday I took the Georgetown House Tour, an annual Washington, D.C., institution put on by St. John's Episcopal Church. Of particular interest to me were the three architects' own houses on the tour.
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A company called Living PlanIT is building a new city in northern Portugal that will apply computer monitoring and control technology to the task of managing an entire urban environment.
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Last week on vacation in Florida, my family and I visited the Green Cay Wetlands, a constructed wetland and nature preserve that also serves as the final-stage treatment facility for municipal wastewater.
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Last night I attended a press preview for the National Building Museum's House & Home exhibition.
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In my experience, homeowners have over the past decade expressed a consistent desire to have the kitchen and living/dining or family rooms completely integrated. Are people now moving back toward wanting a clearer division of spaces?
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Public television station WTTW Chicago is at work on a program about "ten influential American buildings that changed the way we live, work, and play."
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Sprawl has been a dirty word--not to mention a lousy model of land use--for more than 50 years, but that never slowed its inexorable spread.
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Architectural photographer Lara Swimmer and her husband, Seattle-based architect Robert Zimmer, have collaborated with artist Perri Lynch to produce a multi-media study of an Italian hill town.
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There is a new museum in Modena, Italy, dedicated to the work of automotive legend Enzo Ferrari.
Hutker Architects is no stranger to the pages of Custom Home and residential architect. Mark Hutker recently shared how he maintains high design standards worthy of such extensive coverage while juggling three offices spread throughout Cape Cod—two of which require boat or plane trips to reach.
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There may well be more elegant, less painful ways to keep houses occupied and roofs over people's heads, but investors buying up foreclosed properties and renting them out will probably play a large role in cycling distressed properties back into the system.
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Portable digital devices are changing our lives with amazing speed, and furniture design is running to catch up. Will architecture follow?
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Downstairs in our living room is a display of architectural models--Fallingwater, the Robie House, the Farnsworth House--all courtesy of one precocious 9-year-old and his generous grandparents.
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Builders and architects have a pretty good sense of business conditions in their market.
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Among prominent 20th century architects, Paul Rudolph is the one I find most problematic.
Based on this amazing slideshow of Vermont's marble and granite quarries, the Green Mountain State may have the rest of the country licked in that department.
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The whimsical, organic furniture of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec has long captivated the design world.
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I know that banks prefer not to be landlords, but under the current circumstances, this foreclosure-to-rental pilot program seems like plain common sense.
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Mandating injury mitigation technology in table saws, as in a recently proposed California law, seems like a fine idea to me
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This new unit from WaterFurnace delivers water at 150 degrees fahrenheit, hot enough for use with existing radiators and baseboard convectors.
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While offering owners the incomparable experience of living on the water, this development by Dutch architect Marlies Rohmer also proved an ideal application for prefabrication.
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We finally did a blower-door test done on our old (early 19th c.) house yesterday, and the results were quite a revelation.
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It looks as if the streets are paved with gold for young architects in China.