It was the early 19th-century architect and designer Augustus Pugin who called for an honest approach to material and construction in these respective fields: one that champions maintaining the imprint of assembly as a visible, even ornamental detail, and refutes additional inauthentic layering. In today's world, general expectation demands that new products be fully polished and formally crystalline. It is rare to find objects that "honestly" wear evidence of their making.
Glowtile works around a deceptively simple concept: glazed ceramic tiles, each fitted with an egg-shaped handblown glass diffuser set inside a ring of anodized aluminum. Two tile formats make up the system: a square 15×15 centimeter module and a rectangular 30×10 centimeter one. You can arrange them in grids, stagger them, mix both formats together, install them on walls, ceilings, or even set them on the floor to shoot light upward.
Although lighting is often an overlooked element by homeowners, Olesker, who trained as an architect, sees lighting design as a "purposeful part of the architectural whole - curbside to poolside." With a team of 18 artisanal craftsmen, his firm manufactures its designs at its factories in Chatsworth and El Monte.
The 100 metre long Falcon Road underpass runs under the railways to the eastern side of Clapham Junction station and is the only route north-south under the railways in the area. Despite how busy it is, it has long been a very shabby route, with two narrow pedestrian paths, walls lined with stained and broken tiles, and the floor covered in pigeon droppings.
THE MAGARIGAWA CLUB Clubhouse is nestled into the forested hills of Chiba, Japan as a study in managed contradiction - a private driving club's hospitality venue where Joyce Wang Studio choreographed the psychological arc of high-performance driving into architectural form. Automotive culture demands contradictions that few spaces manage to resolve - the heightened alertness required for performance driving exists in direct opposition to the restoration needed afterward.