Innovative People, Projects + Products

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Westin Awaji Resort, Japan
photo: Graeme Hopkins

Rooftops are vastly underutilized spaces in the urban environment, yet it is possible for any landscape, plaza, or garden to be installed on a building or structure. In Europe, over the past thirty years, rooftops have become the focus of a quiet, but steady revolution through the application of green roof technologies. more Green Roof Basics Green Roofs

Green Roof Basics

Green Roof Detail.

There are two basic types of green roofs: in- tensive and ex- tensive. Inten- sive green roofs require at least a minimum of one foot of soil depth to create

a more traditional rooftop garden, with large trees, wide shrubs and other manicured landscapes. They are multi layered construction with elaborate irrigation and drainage systems. Intensive green roofs add considerable load...more Green Tools

Chicago City Hall Rooftop.

Before(L) After(R).

Edible Gardens

folks do their gardening, socializing and recreating in the patch of green behind the house? Is the front lawn just the vestigial cousin of that expanse of land in front of English manors or Chateaus, communicating to the world to keep out? Joan Baron doesn’t think so. Baron, a sculptor, ceramicist, green building guru, and environment artist—she’s not afraid to use the word "shakra" in casual con- versation—turns front yards into edible...more

New Product Showcase

PPG Ideascapes

New online tool that enables architects, specifiers and building owners to compare environmental performance of buildings.

Joel Berman Glass

Transition is a revolutionary new technique that allows an area of deeply embossed texture to transmute to transparent glass..

Baldwin Hardware

We design for today’s innovative styles but give you the option of living proudly with that style for as long as you choose.

Cumberland

Evenly spaced arced metal ribbons connect circular or oval rings at the table's top & bottom to form Cavea's design.

EPCO Hardware

RS 100 from EPCO gives you a simple and clean image for your room, office or any space requires an elegant look .

Fritz Tile

Terrazzo Tile using marble and granite aggregates derived from waste rubble from the manufacturing of other stone products.

Huntco

BIKEPOD is a unique single occupancy bicycle locker intended to be used in high traffic areas where security is important.

Amvic

The T-Block is designed for applications where two ICF walls intersect such as an interior connecting to an exterior wall

Metacrylics

Cool Roofs for decks, building movement regardless of extreme temperature, earthquakes, hurricanes or floods.

Modern Fan

The Lumina fan represents Ron Rezek's vision of a grand sculptural form that serves the purpose of both a chandelier and fan.

Old Fashion Milk Paint

Milk paint is made today with the same ingredients used for hundreds of years- milk protein, lime and earth pigments.

Tri Guard

Wall corner guards, now made of Lexan indestructible polycarbonate plastic are installed in minutes yet lasts for years.

Prime Play

The Kaizen process achieves the best possible quality in the most efficient manner resulting in reduced cost.

Amazing Gates

Our driveway gates are hot dipped galva- nized steel with a durable baked on powder coat and look like true wrought iron gates.

Tablet & Ticket

Exterior Building Signs are built to stand up to all types of weather and able to be post, wall and monument mounted.

Innovators

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier
(1887-1965)

"I prefer drawing to talking.
Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies"

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret- Gris, Le Corbusier was a Swiss-born architect, de- signer, urbanist, writer and

also painter, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern archi- tecture. He is the most in- fluential architect of the 20th century. In his 30s he became a French citizen. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded... more Le Corbusier FLC Contradictions of ...

Notre Dame du Haut, 1954    FR

Zaha Hadid
(b.1950)

"Would they call me a diva

if I were a guy?”

Zaha Hadid

The path of Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid has been an heroic struggle as she rose to the highest ra-

nks of the profession. The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Archi- tecture in its 26 year his- tory, ZAHA HADID has defined a radically new approach to architecture by designing and creating buildings, such as the Ro- senthal Center for Contem- porary Art... more zaha hadid Design-Museum Design-B...

London Aquatic Centre     2012