Architecture & Design

The Second Skin: How Metal Becomes an Active Design System

Across six projects, metal operates as more than a visible finish. Facade panels, louvers, perforated screens, aluminum surfaces and lightweight...

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Material Memory: How Metal Makes Architecture Feel Specific to Place

Across a restaurant in Khao Lak, a cinema in Kyoto, a civic pavilion in Chengdu, an office in Mumbai and...

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Where Metal Meets the Guest: Detail, Memory and Mood in Hospitality Interiors

This Architecture & Design insight examines how hospitality designers are concentrating metal at the moments guests notice and use most:...

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When Metal Carries the Room: From Facade Identity to Everyday Performance

Metal is increasingly doing more than adding a polished finish to a room. Across six hospitality and retail projects, aluminum...

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From Surface to System: The Fabrication Logic Behind Hospitality Design

This Architecture & Design insight studies five hospitality and public-facing projects where metal is treated as a fabricated architectural system...

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Metal as Threshold: How Screens and Portals Shape Spatial Experience

This Architecture & Design insight looks at seven projects that use metal at the edge of space: stainless steel mesh...

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Designing Metal for Change: How Recent Projects Make Architecture More Adaptable

Recent retail, hospitality, workplace and civic projects reveal a more serviceable approach to architectural metal. PANE Shenzhen Bay New Concept...

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Metal as Atmosphere: Screens, Patina and Reflection in Recent Design

Recent hospitality, retail, residential and public projects reveal a quieter role for architectural metal. Perforated screens filter views, oxidised steel...

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Beyond the Lobby: How Recent Hotel Designs Create More Social Public Spaces

Recent hotel openings and renovations are treating the public floor as a small urban interior rather than a pass-through lobby....

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