The multi award-winning studio Grupo Arquitectura, established in 1980 by Daniel álvarez in Mexico City, has picked the Lithos Design Primes line for a luxury project in his home city, a private residence in the Santa Fe district.

The Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in Montreal has announced the call for its Luminothérapie 2018-2019 Competition. Registration deadline is Aug 21, 2017. Proposals due Aug. 30, 2017.

Ten projects were honored at the New York City Section’s Lumen Awards Gala on June 15.

WEST CALDWELL, N.J.—MaxLite, a leading provider of energy-efficient lighting solutions, announced the launch of AlphaMax Channel Letter Modules and Double-Sided T8 Lamps as part of a new category of long-lasting, high-quality LED products for sign lighting applications.

The growing, health-oriented restaurant chain Dig Inn, has taken its nutritious offering to Boston with an appropriately stylish home designed by ASH NYC.

Pascale Girardin makes ceramics for architecture. The Montreal-based artist specializes in creating large-scale clay works for major hospitality and retail clients—recent ones include Saks Fifth Avenue, Four Seasons, and Nobu.

Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable solutions for flooring and sports surfaces, has launched a new DESSO carpet collection, aptly-named ‘Make It Your Own’ – designed to inspire architects and designers to play with textures, colours and materials to tell their own unique story across the floor.

As lighting vendors try to morph from illumination providers into Internet of Things (IoT) linchpins, they face an ongoing series of technology tradeoffs as well as nothing less than rewriting their business model in a manner that could sometimes even exclude lighting itself as an offering.

South Korea-based Seoul Semiconductor and Japan-based Toshiba Materials held a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany announcing a new packaged LED technology call SunLike due from Seoul this summer that is based in part on a Toshiba phosphor technology called TRI-R.

It’s no secret that the economic downturn prompted builders to cut costs whenever possible. But it’s been less noted that when many of those builders examined which materials to trim, they refused to drop engineered wood products (EWPs) despite their higher cost.

When client and designer mission align, it generates a special synergy. Consider the dynamic collaboration between the workplace specialist M Moser Associates and the nonprofit Teach for America. Service and innovation are at the core of the relationship.

Cerith Wyn Evans explores the material and illumination qualities of neon for his latest artwork.

Philips’ ArenaVision LED lighting will support ultrahigh-definition TV for Sevilla FC when the team opens the 2017–18 season.

W Fort Lauderdale has revealed the first phase of its extensive $55 million renovation, bringing a fresh, new design to the entire property.

Kengo Kuma is a renowned Japanese architect and founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates, which employs over 150 architects in Tokyo and Paris.

CORTEZ, FLA.—A new recreational focused resort and marina is coming to Cortez from the developer behind Mirabella, the LEED Platinum certified, 160 home, adult community in nearby Bradenton, Fla. The 148 cottage community, named Hunters Point Resort and Marina, will also feature 49 boat slips, a public marina and community center, all designed to provide a modern, environmentally respectful and energy efficient fishing village style community to the historic town of Cortez, Fla. Of the 148 “Cracker” cottages, 62 are designed as hotel rooms for short term rentals.

ROCK HILL, S.C.—HyLite LED Lighting, a division of ARVA, LLC, announced the expansion of its retrofit lamp product lines with new 347V & 480V options. These new high voltage models are available in the HyLite LED Omni-Cob, Arc-Cob, & Lotus series sizes 20W and up. The new models replace metal halide and high pressure sodium lights up to 1000W.

Samsung announces mid-power 3030 packaged LED hits 220-lm/W efficacy level while Lumileds expands its Level 2 strategy, and Everlight and Bridgelux begin IP squabble.

This summer, Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh is partnering with local artists to encourage guests to unplug and revisit the art of handwritten travel postcards. The downtown boutique hotel invited three Pittsburgh-based artists to wander its whimsical and adventure-inspired space in the city’s iconic Beaux Arts-style James H. Reed Building?to draw?inspiration for concepting and creating the custom?pieces for the hotel’s official postcards.

Latest retail architecture projects by DFROST for essence and Swarovski.