Case study: Louis Vuitton’s Singapore showroom

January 1, 2013  |  Features, Interiors

FTL dresses up the Singapore showcase for haute couture designer Louis Vuitton’s newest store. Louis Vuitton Asia Pacific’s request was to develop an iconic custom solar shade skin for the flagship “Island Maison” at Sands Marina Bay, Singapore. The project is located in a fl…
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Fabrics shape a new media shop

January 1, 2013  |  Features, Interiors

Three kinds of fabrics shape a 21st century production space. By Frank Edgerton Martin Like the traveling circuses in the 19th century and today, the field of new media requires workspaces that are flexible, open and able to accommodate large groups when necessary. Editors, animators and producers o…
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Awning study offers cool solutions

November 1, 2012  |  Exteriors, Features

A new awning energy study shows residential cooling energy savings across the U.S. By Michelle Sahlin The Professional Awning Manufacturers Association’s (PAMA) Awning Energy Study 2012: The Impact on Energy Use and Peak Demand of Awnings and Roller Shades in Residential Buildings provides dat…
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Eco-friendly structures upgrade historic buildings

November 1, 2012  |  Exteriors, Features

A Staten Island museum teaches while going green. At the northern end of Staten Island, N.Y., is a cozy community called Snug Harbor where a recent upgrade of historic buildings for the Staten Island Children’s Museum (SICM) has been pulling in visitors with its new educational facilities. The…
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London 2012 Olympic Stadium wrap

November 1, 2012  |  Exteriors, Features, Graphics, News

As a major American corporate sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics, the Dow Chemical Co. was committed to the rigorous sustainability and environmental standards set by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). Dow sponsored the wrap called for by the stadium archit…
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Reinventing architecture with fabric

November 1, 2012  |  Interiors

Dutch artist and designer Petra Blaisse believes in “the reanimation of desolate buildings,” and her latest “intervention” at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy, uses daylight, shadow and space-transforming curtains to bring a vacant exhibit space…
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Swiss art sees the light

November 1, 2012  |  Features, Interiors

Visitors to the Art House Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland, can now experience their art under a new modular illuminated fabric ceiling system by Sefar Architecture. As part of a recent expansion project to the museum, the Art House Uri gallery is a permanent home for the works of local artist Heinrich Dan…
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Spontaneous Interventions wows Italian cognoscenti

November 1, 2012  |  Interiors

U.S. design contingency wowed at 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. By Mason Riddle What’s not to like about Venice? Not much if you are the Institute for Urban Design (IFUD) and your project, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, jus…
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School’s roof lets in natural light

November 1, 2012  |  Features, Interiors, News

Nottingham University Samworth Academy (NUSA), a new secondary school, is part of the UK government’s initiative to roll out academies across the country. Designed by Atkins Global architects, the design features a cable-supported, single skin ETFE roof over an unheated internal street with cl…
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Moving media façade illuminated “One Ocean”

September 17, 2012  |  Exteriors

More than 8.2 million visitors traveled to Yeosu, South Korea, this summer to see Expo 2012 “The Living Ocean and Coast,” focused on a global vision for restoring sustainable life to the world’s marine environments. Participants from 100 nations discussed rising sea levels, the los…
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