Windows
These window products have savings in mind. For some, it is about saving time, money, labor, and maintenance, as with a reassembled unitized-curtain-wall system. Others are concerned with saving energy, the environment, or even lives.

pictured: Unitized-curtain-wall system

Orlando • Coverings
The premier exhibition of tile and stone in the U.S., this year’s Coverings, held April 29 to May 2, showcased an innovative mix from the world’s top producers featuring larger formats, color-through bodies, digitally printed patterning, textural surfaces, recycled glass, and advanced glazing.

pictured: Green glass

Product Reports 2007
Our expert jury examined hundreds of submissions for our 35th annual review of the year’s most innovative new building products available. See winners in 13 different categories, including Furnishings, Openings, and Thermal Moisture and Protection. We also feature our Top Ten Green Products and Editors’ Picks.

Product Reports 2006
Our expert 8-member jury examined hundreds of entries for this year's Product Reports. We have the top contenders listed by category, including Concrete, Finishes, Electrical, and our newest category, Prototypes.

Pictured: Recycled vinyl wall coverings by Second-Look (Editors' Picks 2007)

ICFF 
Typically following Milan’s supersize furniture fair, the launches at N.Y.C.’s smaller International Contemporary Furniture Fair can echo the Italians. This year’s more eclectic mix of furnishings and materials, however, was more likely to be touted as green.

Pictured: www.ludowici.com

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.

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