The Sezz Collection was conceived when French designer Christophe Pillet and Pennsylvania-based Emeco collaborated on a seating line for the Sezz Hotel in Saint-Tropez, France. Made of 80% recycled aluminum, the pieces in the line, including stools and swivel, side, and lounge chairs, are treated, welded, and brushed in the same 77-step, handcrafted process used since the 1940s to create the original 1006 Navy chair.

Working out of an office in Boston's financial district — inaccessible to the public and incapable of holding large public functions — the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) wanted a change of scene.

Relief packaging that can be repurposed into furnishings, a cleaner-burning wood stove that generates electricity, and an inflatable solar light are just three of the exciting new solutions that can help people in developing countries and disaster zones be healthier and more comfortable in their living and working environments.

Requiring only a knife and the instructions printed on the box, recipients of relief goods would be able to transform the packaging into temporary furnishings for a family in a refugee camp or into games or educational materials for children.

Multidisciplinary Vancouver firm Molo has designed a line of paper- and textile-based partitions that can be used for disaster relief or homeless shelters,as well as temporary voting booths, clinics, schools, or any situation where there is the need to set up a series of adjustable, private rooms. 

The LuminAID inflatable solar light was developed two years ago by Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta while graduate students in architecture at Columbia University.

Nearly half the world's population cooks on open fires, which kill nearly two million people every year due to wood-smoke-related diseases.

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When muslims make their pilgrimage to Medina to pray at Islam’s second-holiest mosque, there is now shelter from the extreme sun for the crowds that spill into the surrounding plaza.

Each month RECORD reviews building product related web sites and blogs that might be of interest to our readership.