An architecture foundation will be featuring the strength of women in development by showing their outstanding work in a new way. The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation is honoring the work projects through the “Built by Women New York City” program. Also called BxW NYC, the program accepted applications from Aug. 1 until Oct. 31, and […]

Since the 1970s, we’ve been operating beyond the resources our planet can sustainably provide. Today, we use the equivalent of 1.5 earths to give us the resources we need, and also to absorb our waste. Several future scenarios suggest that if current business-as-usual trends continue, we will need the equivalent of three earths by 2050. […]

In the next 40 years, there’ll be some 80 million Americans over 65, and 19 million who will be over 85. What’s more, it’s a cohort that’s reinventing what it means to grow old. The Harvard Center for Joint Housing Studies says that 77% percent of us don’t want to leave home when we age–we […]

Grab bars, wheelchair-compatible counters, barrier-free showers, and other universal design details should be as elegant as they are useful. Product manufacturers and designers have caught on, and are showing how to combine comfort and style, especially in the bathroom and kitchen. Accessibility aids don’t need to, and shouldn’t look cumbersome, institutional or like an afterthought. […]

Italian manufacturer aLEGNA has introduced a line of luxury wooden bathtubs. The products are designed to evoke nature, and were inspired by the manufacturer’s experience with yacht building. The tubs are made from carefully selected wood veneers, and saturated with an extra-resistant resin, to ensure that the bathtub is 100 percent leak-proof and no water […]

As important as shearwalls are to architecture, it’s surprising how unappreciated they remain in the design process of most homes. F or the amount of work shearwalls do, they get very little time in the spotlight of design conversation. In fact, they’re usually only mentioned as a byproduct of where the windows can and cannot […]

With combined living areas on the rise, hallways are becoming an endangered species. The few that remain usually link private spaces, and/or serve as a display area for mementos. In a new design, JT Loomis, architect with Maine–based Elliott and Elliott Architecture, pulled kitchen cabinets away from the wall to generate a useful nook, creating […]

Kitchen designers have two new cabinetry brands to add to their repertoires today. After an 18-month "rebranding and reinvention process," Echelon Cabinetry and Advanta Cabinets have been born from the legacy Armstrong Cabinets brand, and a new design tool comes with them. Company research found that of recent homebuyers and those in the market for […]

Passive House may not yet be a household name in the United States, but the European-born, ultra-energy efficient approach to building is making inroads here today.  A lot of credit for this progress goes to Adam Cohen, architect and founder of the Roanoke, Virginia company “Structures Design/Build,” and one of the country’s first Certified Passive […]

Level surfaces and clean looks can be harder to accomplish than it might seem, especially when you’re building a deck over a living space. The subject might seem overly particular, but properly designing a deck over living space demonstrates architectural sophistication and consideration to the design process. It’s also a piece of the architectural puzzle […]