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Winning Libraries

Arabian Library, Scottsdale, Arizona        By: Richard + Bauer Architecture

The eight recipients of the 2009 AIA and ALA Library Building Awards were announced. The biennial awards, pre- sented by the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association, honor exemplary library projects by... more Interior Design

Francis Martin Library, Bronx New York        By:1100 Architects

 

Eco Library

Nursultan Nazarbayev Library, Kazakhstan   By: BIG Architects

BIG Architects have unveiled plans of an incredible library that is to be developed in Kazakhstan. Dubbed, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the library design will be comprised of 4... more

Outside view of the N. Nazarbayev Library

 

Jan Kaplicky’s                     Prague National Library

In 2008, just before his sudden death, Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky talks to Liz Bury about the brouhaha over his winning library design for Prague. Jan Kaplicky had become... more Future-Systems Wired.com

Czech National Library by Jan Kaplicky

Czech-born archi- tect dies only hrs. after the birth of his daughter and in the midst of a battle to begin his work on the na- tional library in Prague. Jan Kap- lický, one.. more

 
Jan Kaplicky    1937-2009

New Product Showcase

   
Duratherm Windows
Duratherm's high performance teak and mahogany doors and windows are key elements to a buildings sustainable design.
VaproShield
VaproShield membranes have a unique, self-cinching capability with moisture reducing penetration points.
Louis Poulsen Lighting
The Collage 450 is an extension to the Collage family consisting of the pendant and floor fixtures Collage 600.
Cement Board Fabricators
SIL-LEED™ fiber cement cladding sheets are the obvious choice for a cost-effective and low maintenance façade.
Goldray Industries
Goldray products are used in a variety of truly unique architectural applications such as ceiling tiles, opaque or translucent walls.
Altus Group
CarbonCast:an innovative technology using C-GRID™ epoxy-coated carbon fiber com- posite for secondary reinforcing.
greenscreen 
greenscreen®'s unique wire space frame configuration can span between structural members.
Global Foam Company
Custom Complex Foam Shapes for Architecture at an affordable price.

Fritz Tile
Our standard lines may contribute in up to 9 LEED categories, but our FritzGreen pro- ducts may contribute up to 16 categories.
Vande Hey Raleigh Roof Tile
All of our roofing tiles are custom-crafted tiles, inspired by your dreams.
pf Waterworks
PermaFLOW™ is the World’s First Self Cleaning ‘GREEN’ Drain System.
Modern Fan
Introducind five new ceiling fans: the Lumina, Pensi (designed by Jorge Pensi), Velo, Velo Hugger and Cloud.
Accelerated Building Technologies, LLC 
This innovative technology virtually elimi- nates the transfer of temperature from one side of the framing component to the other.
Bigfoot
Green Bigfoot used in Platinum Certified LEED homes & an observatory telescope.
Engineered Plastics
Introducing the NEW Armor-Tile REPLACEABLE cast in place detectable warning pads.

Innovators

Billy Baldwin
(1903-1984)

"My rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing"

White Slipper chair in Billy          Baldwin's apartment

The dean of indigenous de- corators (he abhorred the term interior designer) Billy Baldwin was at once a classicist and a modernist. Though his... more Patricia Gray Inc. Famous Interior Designer

Eero Saarinen
(1910 -1961)

"The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence"

Eero Saarinen was one of the most prolific, unortho- dox, and controversial mas- ters of the twentieth cen- tury architecture. Although his career was cut... more Architect Saarinen Galinsky

The Womb Chair & JFK Terminal