New options bring light, air, and views into interior residential and commercial spaces.

  Bright colors, clean lines, and durable materials mark the latest furnishings, finishes, and lighting designs for hotels, restaurants, and spas.

Colorado state University built the Morgan Library Pavilion, an addition to an existing 270,000-square-foot library on its Fort Collins campus, to create a transparent, inviting space for students.

Colorado state University built the Morgan Library Pavilion, an addition to an existing 270,000-square-foot library on its Fort Collins campus, to create a transparent, inviting space for students.

New architectural building solutions redefine their product types, including a visually arresting collection of clothing racks for retail, residential, and gallery spaces.

The dramatic white interior of the University of Helsinki's new main library, by local firm Anttinen Oiva Architects, is striking for its curving travertine-marble staircase, its Finnish furnishings, and the oval-shaped voids the architects carved out of the center of the floor plates.

While not all strictly for residential use, these new furnishings, finishes, and technologies offer a personal touch that makes them particularly well suited for domestic life.

The smartest new handles, hinges, and other hardware on the market, including a wireless sensor that signals if a door or window is not properly locked.

Over 5,500 composite-metal panels in five custom colors, widths, and depths, combined with energy-efficient windows, make up the facade of MassArt's new residence hall.

These new solutions for hospitals, assisted living facilities, and other spaces for treatment and recovery, prove that aesthetics do not need to suffer when high-performance is required.