Architectural products that make life simpler.

Image 6 of 22 from gallery of Plan B Guatemala / DEOC Arquitectos. Cortesía de DEOC Arquitectos

Industrial designer Adam Goodrum has teamed up with Brickworks to design Kite Breeze, a fresh take on the humble breeze block.

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As original as it is functional, Adam Goodrum brings back the iconic breeze block in Kite Breeze: a homage to Australian living and European manufacturing.

Image 6 of 34 from gallery of BLNT house / AT26 architects. Photograph by Peter Čintalan

Image 14 of 46 from gallery of Inventronics Tonglu Production Factory (Phase1) / GLA. Photograph by Li Yao

Every year during Dutch Design Week many new ideas, innovations and inspirations are put forward, mostly by Young and upcoming designers. We’ve spotted a number of talents who are already part of the Materia community, as well as new highlights to look out for. Mandy den Elzen makes interior objects from curious materials. Her vases, lampshades […]

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The strength of Dutch Design Week (DDW), held annually at the end of October, lies primarily in product design. Although the event has expanded over...

Completed in 2017 in Mérida, Mexico. Images by Eduardo Calvo Santisbon. "Un Patio" is a single-family housing project, located north of the city of Mérida in the state of Yucatán, on a rectangular plot of approximately 24...

Sala koncertowa na toruńskich Jordankach to wyjątkowa architektura przez wielu porównywana do Szczecińskiej Filharmonii. Choć bardzo różnią się formą, mają też wiele cech wspólnych: to znakomite architektonicznie obiekty poświęcone kulturze, które powstały w wyniku międzynarodowych konkursów, a ich bryły to swoiste połączenie tradycji i nowoczesności. Zaglądamy do wnętrz toruńskiej sali, aby sprawdzić, czy efekt jest równie spektakularny jak w Szczecinie.

Wall of circles

Image 15 of 28 from gallery of Dongyuan Yuejing Kindergarten / Chengdu Tianhua. Photograph by Yang Yuan

Image 14 of 38 from gallery of Multi-Place / EKAR.

Image 12 of 19 from gallery of The Spire 2 Sales Pavilion / playball studio. Photograph by Dhrupad Shukla, Ronak Gangdev

Completed in 2018 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Images by Stephen Goodenough. Located on a historic transport route between Christchurch and the ferry terminal, the new Woolston Community Library stands on the aptly named Ferry...

Image 20 of 41 from gallery of The Layer House / Rubrics Architects. Photograph by Andy Hwang

gedächtnis-kirche, berlin 1957-1963. architect: egon eiermann, 1904-1970. the exterior of this wall. eiermann appears to connect the rationalism of ludwig mies and auguste perret in his steel frame and concrete panels that act as brise soleil in the office wings and as a prefabricated concrete curtain wall in the church where the coloured glass infill create the effect of a gothic window. thus eiermann combines the classical and the gothic in the church just as auguste perret had done in his. this is german romanticism holding its breath.

Image 20 of 38 from gallery of Ogindan Dandan House / SML. Photograph by Kyungsub Shin

Image 6 of 25 from gallery of Dong Yugan's Brick Art Museum Through the Lens of He Lian. © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio

The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and all the world is once again aglow with the rosy effervescence of global orthogonality. All a...