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- Reclaimed Materials Create A Multi-Species Wildlife TowerAt Honeygar Farm in Somerset, architecture and construction studio PEARCE+ has designed and built a habitat tower that supports a wide range of local…
- Local Materials Shape Climate-Responsive Home In BangladeshArchitect Xinyun Li has developed an affordable housing concept based on mud, straw, bamboo, clay brick, handmade pottery and reclaimed corrugated metal. Designed for…
- Transparent Insulation Material Promises Major Energy Savings for BuildingsResearchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new transparent insulation material for windows. The material improves thermal performance while keeping glass…
- Material Experiments in Concrete, Steel and Glass: pulpo’s New Collections for 2026At Maison&Objet 2026, German design company pulpo introduces two material-focused developments: the Industrial Art collection and the Alwa Square series. Both lines show how…
- A continuous sheet of mushroom leatherResearchers at the Finnish VTT Technical Research Centre managed to develop technology that enables the continuous manufacturing of mycelium leather sheets by the meter…
- Bakery Fuses Traditional and Modern MaterialsA traditional Polish bakery created a very modern interior effect using old baking sheets for wall decor and lamp fixtures. Rather than using standard…
- Craft, Code and New Material Logics at Dutch Design Week 2025At Dutch Design Week 2025 (18–26 October, Eindhoven), designers pair craft with computation to push materials into fresh territory. The results range from data-driven…
- GreenEdge: A Circular Material for Interior DesignEvery year, designers face the challenge of dealing with Europe’s enormous furniture waste stream: more than 10 million tonnes are thrown away annually, and…
- Wonderful Reinvention of Abandonded Household MaterialsEach year, the approximately 135,000 deaths, 32,236 divorces, 10,000 bankruptcies and thousands of cases of hospitalisation that occur in the Netherlands alone leave many…
- Mokumono Delta bicycles are made locally from aluminium sheets97 per cent of bicycles assembled in Europe use frames imported from Southeast Asia, where the wages are much lower. For a country that…
- Material Magic: Meet This Incredible Invisibility CloakFor centuries, scientists have tried to make visible object invisible. Now, a team of scientist from the University of California San Diego have taken…
- From Flat-Pack to Functional Art: The SPRING Chair and Its Minimalist Material ApproachGovert Flint, the Rotterdam-based designer from Enrichers, has spent the past 1.5 years exploring how furniture design can align with the principles of a…
- Material Xperience part 5: Meet the Future of MobilityOnly one and a half week until Material Xperience 2018! The annual material trade fair will take place in Rotterdam Ahoy, the Netherlands. This year, we…
- Material highlights at Dutch Design Week 2018 part 2Dutch Design Week takes place this year from 20 to 28 October. As always, the event focuses on designs of the future. Sustainability is…
- Flexible Electrospun Textile Powers Self-Sustaining Wearable SensorsResearchers at Penn State University have developed a new textile that creates electricity from movement. This innovation could reshape wearable technology for designers in…
- Graphene-based material diamene becomes harder than a diamond upon impactResearchers at the City University of New York developed an ultra-thin flexible material called diamene made from two layers of graphene that temporarily becomes…
- The London Design Festival: What happened material-wiseLast week, from 16 to 24 September, the London Design Festival 2017 took place. Between all sorts of wonderful design installations, such as a…
- The Materials Behind This Ethereal Floating Glass Stair + SkylightOverlooking the side of Hong Kong Island, this stand-alone glass staircase and skylight within a two-floor apartment appears to float between the walls of…
- Mycelium Jacket Showcases Programmable Biomaterials For Future DesignA concept jacket made from mycelium—the root-like network of fungi—offers a clear glimpse into the future of biofabricated materials. Vollebak developed this one-off piece…
- TemperatureThe temperature of a material would not seem to be an obvious propert. Why reflect on it? Increasingly the design community is incorporating product…
- MaterialDistrict Utrecht announces its 16th editionMaterialDistrict Utrecht, the show for the latest trends in material innovation for architecture and interior design, announces its 16th edition, taking place from 8-10…
- The Hype About GrapheneGraphene is amazing. It is incredibly light, flexible, conductive – and it happens to be the strongest known material in the world. Recent material…
- The fabric of architectureWe associate textile mainly with fashions. The textile industry does however have numerous other applications. The book Technotextiles reviews the most recent developments in…
