ArchDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Adopting the spirit of the circular economy by harnessing agricultural waste such as corn cobs, rice straw, and sugar cane bagasse for building materials marks a fundamental shift towards sustainable practices, promoting a closed-loop system that minimizes waste and optimizes resource efficiency. Read more »

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Chinese architecture studio Spactrum has repurposed construction-site tools and materials to furnish its own office in Shanghai. The sacks used for building-material packaging also received a new look. The post Spactrum transforms construction materials into furniture for own office appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Image rendering courtesy Tadao Ando The project was meant to showcase both a new permanent collection and rotating exhibitions of art from Asia, adding four galleries and a ground-level café to the location whose entry sequence draws out further connections between the space, land, and people of the island.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 9, 2024

Image © Nelson Kon Concrete blocks are prefabricated materials primarily used for constructing walls. These blocks are available in a variety of dimensions and textures, ranging from traditional smooth surfaces to fluted or rough finishes. Mipibu House / Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2024

A team of researchers from Japan’s Tohoku University has developed a new mechanoluminescent construction material they say can be used in infrastructure to monitor daily use stress information in real-time in order to avert potential future catastrophes that may result from its aging stock of bridges, roads, and dams. NbO3 (or LNNO).

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Straw insulation offers the lowest carbon footprint across its entire lifetime than any other major insulation material. Image © 11H45 Working within the restrictions of a limited carbon footprint can be one of the hardest – but also most rewarding – parts of a modern architect’s role. Read more »

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2025

These spa-like bathrooms, characterised by raw materials , earthy tones, statement tiles and custom sanitaryware, provide a private room to unwind in. Keeping to a minimalist palette provides a sense of calm that draws attention to the sumptuous materials. Find out more about Tembo Tembo Lodge Enter by 26 March!

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2025

Material choices can play a defining role in kitchen design, influencing both aesthetics and functionality. From rich timber cabinetry to sleek stainless steel surfaces, the right materials can transform a kitchen into a striking centrepiece while ensuring durability and practicality.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2025

has gotten our attention for its highly selective materials palette and unique response to site challenges that would imperil similar designs. A BLDUS -designed residential project in Washington, D.C.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Indeed, while clients and the general public often admire the final product, the behind-the-scenes process of material specification remains largely invisible. Architects would visit showrooms, touch samples and scrutinize finishes under natural light. It’s an essential, yet understated, part of architectural practice.

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Archinect

JANUARY 16, 2025

This otherwise surrealism-inspired blend of food production, food culture, design, art, and gastronomy contains a working mill press and wastes no gestures or materials (save for the monumental half olive embedded into its weather steel walls) with the deliberate exclusion of cladding or exterior finishes. Starck himse.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2025

Organic, tactile material finishes complementing the New Museum’s polished lightness will create a warm and comforting environment," he describes. Conceived as a freestanding box inserted into the ground floor lobby, it will be accessible from the building’s front and back, day to night.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2025

Mitsubishi Jisho Design has completed the Mitsubishi Pavilion According to the studio, the main ambition for the 2,075-square-metre Mitsubishi Pavilion was for it to be demountable, leading the team to utilise reusable materials including timber and steel. The selection focuses on materials that are familiar to construction workers.

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Archinect

JANUARY 29, 2025

This project not only responds to the needs of our client, but also to the demands of nature, reaffirming our responsibility as architects to care for the environment and optimize the natural resources and materials available. Thus, we managed to merge the exterior with the interior of the residence in an efficient and sustainable way.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 16, 2025

In regions where warm climates make insulation unnecessary, this material can be left exposed, free of cladding, finishes, or embellishment. This also creates a platform to explore the concept of material honesty. Read more

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Atelier Xi has completed a visitor centre for Qiaochengbei Park in Shenzhen Atelier Xi aimed to have a minimal impact on this landscape, arranging the visitor centre's two structures around the park's trees and using material finishes that would blend in with the natural setting over time. "We

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A single-family house in a newly named alley in Capitol Hill is an opportunity to elaborate upon a healthy material palette featuring black locust wood, cork cladding, hemp insulation, and bamboo structural walls. Healthy material environments facilitate healthy lifestyles.

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Archinect

JANUARY 28, 2025

Custom finish work includes oak & walnut wall paneling with brass inlays, hand cast concrete tiles used on the kitchen island and a steel skylight well in the bedroom. Colors and materials in the house blend with the e.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Named Casa Suna, the 700-square-metre home sits between the sea and mountains in La Ribera, and has been finished in a palette of pale stone and timber in order to visually complement the surrounding, sandy landscape. Travertine marble in the bathrooms adds an elegant touch, ensuring consistency with the overall material palette," said Rueda.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2025

Clay wall finishes and built-in oak joinery were used to add warmth and facility to this Victorian terraced house in south London , extended by British architecture studio Pensaer. Named Clay House after the project's use of the raw material, the home in East Dulwich has been expanded by 40 square metreswith a side and rear extension.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Called RePit as a play on the word "repeat", the composite material was designed to offer a more sustainable alternative to the thermoplastic filaments traditionally used by 3D printers to build up objects layer by layer. The material has zero plastic in it and is made from only natural materials."

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The property boasts sustainable features such as efficient zoned radiant heating, direct solar gain, minimal waste in construction, low-impact materials, and basic finishes. The main block and pavilion can come together to host larger events, but when not in use, the pavilion is untreated, acting as a buffer or direct solar collector.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Every material element used in its construction was assigned a unique ID or "material passport" to allow the reuse of the materials in future to be tracked. The housing surrounds an urban farm TCV was constructed from prefabricated modules to minimise waste, combined with a mixture of hollowed core concrete slabs and steel.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 11, 2024

With an oeuvre that blends respect for context, lightness and technology to create environmentally conscious and aesthetically pleasing structures, his approach combines advanced materials with traditional techniques. This is often made explicit in his sketches, as an initial concern, and clearly comes through in the finished works.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2025

We approached the project from the point of view of sustainability and to maximise the existing resources, both material and cultural," said Studio Bua co-founder Sigrn Sumarliadttir. "We The steel's black finish was chosen to distinguish it from its neighbours and emphasise the building's uncomplicated shape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Belgian studio Van Laethem Architecten used natural materials including hempcrete and cedar shingles to create this small garden studio for its staff in Alken. This was an ideal way of cutting costs, but also for other self-builders to get to know the material." Natural materials therefore create a natural atmosphere.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2025

Organic, tactile material finishes complementing the New Museum’s polished lightness will create a warm and comforting environment," he describes. Conceived as a freestanding box inserted into the ground floor lobby, it will be accessible from the building’s front and back, day to night.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2024

From environmentally friendly materials to innovative architectural solutions, every detail has been carefully considered. Constructed with firewood concrete and finished with a reed covering, the living walls create an eco-conscious dwelling that seamlessly connects with its natural surroundings.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By contrast, the four columns and external staircase are finished in black paint. The upper and lower levels are connected by a yellow spiral staircase wrapping around one of the structural steel columns, offering a colorful departure from a pure material palette of hardwood and glass. Image credit: Cameron Caro.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Partly because dark colors better harvest sunlight to be turned into electricity, but also because silicon –the primary material used in most high-efficiency photovoltaic panels– tends to be dark in its crystalline form. Read more »

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Archinect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The traditional English red brick design features sharp green accents around the eaves and windows on its exterior, complemented by a “utilitarian and pragmatic” material palette, joinery, parquetry, and rich blockwork finishes inside in order to form a “playful take on the rural vernacular farmhouse.”

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Ying Gao has created a pair of garments embedded with soft mirrors Embedded with eye-tracking technology, the garments react to the observer's gaze, triggering micro-actuators that cause the material to ripple and shift. Gao compares them to haute couture and says they are built to last and "designed to withstand interaction".

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Despite requiring more frequent maintenance compared to materials like concrete, wood is increasingly considered a viable option within the concept of regenerative design , owing to its place in the natural organic cycle of our planet. Read more »

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

” The stamp follows the previous two editions in incorporating their subject’s material in the stamp itself. Made using cement pigments, the latest stamp holds an ultra-matte finish to give the depicted concrete wall a “tactile dimension.”

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Two Hundred Tons has created the Unroll collection using laser-cut steel tubes "We wanted to test just how many pieces we could create with the least amount of material," the designers explained. The metal is finished with a durable powder lacquer to ensure long-term resistance to rust and wear.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The extension is organised around a skylit workshop Organised around the central developer hall is an events space to the east, a material store and 3D printing facilities to the south, and workshops and a machine shop for welding and woodworking to the west.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The 'snug' was finished in floor-to-ceiling burnt orange A duo of oversized geometric lights was suspended from the ceiling, echoing the Bauhaus-inspired forms that define the Cake Architecture-designed A Bar with Shapes for a Name in Hoxton. The material palette blends industrial rawness with tactile warmth," considered Scott Moncrieff.

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