Barrier-free, hands-free, and slip-resistant features make these items staples of universal design.

Sonneman’s latest showroom includes spaces for early-stage, collaborative design as well as product demonstrations. Robert Sonneman tells RECORD why.

Manufacturing technology is creating grime fighting for surfaces ranging from cladding to roofing to paints.

A recent change in building code is helping to clarify what a safer green roof looks like.

The best systems for managing indoor environments let clients personalize multiple factors at once.

These fittings and fixtures are designed to infuse industrial style into residential projects.

Developed for Internet-era shopping, temporary spaces by Giorgio Borruso Design and Flexetail are built from an ingenious kit-of-parts solution for store design.

Carpets by the Barcelona-based company aren’t the only hand-woven offerings on the market, but they are among the most demonstrative and enduring examples of traditional hand-weaving. The eponymous founder ensures these old techniques are applied to innovative new designs.

Gensler’s product-development team can cherry-pick manufacturers it wants to collaborate with. These companies, in turn, gain insight into what architects really need to source. Record interviewed Gensler’s director of product development Brandon Larcom about the program.

Husband-and-wife architects Francesco Breganze and Virginia Valentini distinguished their first collection of vases, candle holders and case goods with clever nods to the built environment.