Lighting Products
We look at the newest design and technology on the market.

Lighting products - February 2012
Lighting products - November 2011
Lighting products - August 2011

Products in Brief: Ceilings
What’s up with ceilings—from a new custom-design program to the industry’s first environmental product declaration.

Pictured: Expanded Manufacturing Capabilities; Photo © Hunter Douglas

Product Types: Building Products
Some of the newest building products on the market, from a high-tech thermostat that learns heating routines to refreshed and reengineered classics.

Pictured: Nest Learning Thermostat; Nest

Humanitarian Products
Product designs that improve the health, safety, and dignity of those in need, including a shelter concept that easily adapts to its environment.

Photo courtesy Molo Design

Product Focus: Lighting and Energy Efficiency
Legislation Sparks Innovation. 

Pictured: Plumen CFL Bulb

Learning Tools
Products that help K–12 grade students see, hear, create, and make the most of their learning environments.

Pictured: Tools at Schools; Photo © Connor & James Steinkamp

Snapback
Industry experts share their techniques and solutions for different product types from flooring to roofing.

Photo © Eduard Hueber courtesy Baumschlager Eberle

Product Reports 2011
Our 2011 roundup of the year’s best new building products.

Pictured: Carbon Negative Cement

2011 Holiday Gift Guide
RECORD presents its fourth annual Holiday Gift Guide for readers looking for affordable, well-designed presents for clients, family, or friends. Our roundup features new books, toys, desktop items, home decor, and personal accessories, as well as a roundup of wine- and tea-inspired designs.  — Rita Catinella Orrell

Pictured: wine- and tea-inspired designs/ Rolha: Corque Design

Products in Brief
The latest solutions for interior or exterior walls, including a solar-energy device that mimics ivy to generate energy and provide shade.

Photo: courtesy Joe Cascio for Boston Valley Terra Cotta

Native New Yorkers
The current state of manufacturing building products within the five boroughs.

Photo © 2011 Google Earth

2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge
We present a few of the 21 semifinalists of this year’s challenge. The winner of the $100,000 prize will be announced at a ceremony in New york in June.

School of the 21st Century
A range of new building products for K-12 projects help specifiers, educators, and students achieve their goals, both in and out of the classroom.

Pictured: Lees Carpets

Kitchen and Bath Review
Our annual review of kitchen and bath design includes a Manhattan apartment finished in local materials, a challenging kitchen renovation in Montreal’s Habitat 67, and a land-worthy kitchen and master bath for a private yacht.

Photo: © James Brittain

Each month RECORD reviews building product related web sites and blogs that might be of interest to our readership. We visit each site, kick the tires a bit, and share what it is about and how it functions.

Pictured: Hansgrohe Group

Ingo Mauer and Osram ally for a visionary OLED
Celebrated for his avant-garde approach to illumination, Munich-based lighting designer Ingo Mauer was tapped by Osram Opto Semiconductors to develop an actual fixture using the company’s pioneering OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology.

Featured Tradeshow Interview: Patrick Jouin
During the 2007 Salone del Mobile in Milan, French-born designer Patrick Jouin sat down in the Kartell booth with RECORD to discuss his new chair design for the Italian plastic furnishings company.

Listen in as Jouin explains the technology that gives his new Thalya chair for Kartell new levels of strength while remaining lightweight, as well as why he became a designer, and what his firm is working on next.

Image courtesy of Patrick Jouin

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