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12 Architect-Designed Products Showcased During Milan Design Week 2024

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This year, many internationally recognized architects have entered collaborations with furniture and light design companies, exploring the intersection of design and architecture. Image © Alberto Strada for UniFor This year's Milan Design Week brought together designers, architects, producers, and key figures from the design world.

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Seeing Through Layers: Translucent Materials in Architecture

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Translucency, at its essence, is an optical property that enables the total or partial passage of light through materials, without providing a clear view of the objects behind them. Traditionally, glass sheets have been the symbolic material associated with transparency, commonly used in the fabrication of doors and windows.

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Snøhetta designs hemp-based lighting product inspired by 1970s ateljé Lyktan line

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Snøhetta has designed a line of lighting products for Swedish lighting manufacturer ateljé Lyktan. The line, named Superdupertube, sees a revision of the manufacturer’s 1970s Supertube product, which was given a “contemporary makeover through extensive material research.”

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Researchers look at the possibilities of wood fly ash by-products as an alternative in rammed earth construction

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New findings published in the journal Construction and Building Materials from a team of materials researchers working at the University of British Columbia Okanagan's School of Engineering have demonstrated the sustainable qualities of using wood fly ash by-products as alternatives to traditional concrete additives.

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21 Projects Where Kengo Kuma (Re)Uses Materials in Unusual Ways

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Image © ImagenSubliminal Kengo Kuma uses materials to connect with the local context and the users of his projects. The textures and elementary forms of constructive systems, materials, and products, are exhibited and used in favor of the architectural concept, giving value to the functions that will be carried out in each building.

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IKEA launches personalized interior design service for U.S.

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Customers are then paired with a designer based in their region, who they can communicate with on three virtual, one-on-one sessions to develop a mood board, floor plan, elevations, 3D renderings, a lighting plan, a product list, and tips for materials and furnishings. According to IKEA, consumer interior design servi.

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DL 1961 Headquarters and Showroom by Studio MBM / Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli

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The geometry of the space is dictated by these carved spaces and emphasized by light reveals where the aluminum lattice ceiling meets peripheral spaces. The design strategically integrates showroom and office space, literally and physically putting DL1961’s product at the center of the process.