Classic Antique Style Birch Pedestal (Brown) (39"H x 0"W x 15"D)

This Classic Antique Style Pedestal adds warmth and charm. With its classic 8 drawer design, you have all the space you need to fill with personal treasures. Solid birch wood construction. Awash in a distressed Brown Finish. Measures a exquisite 39″H x 15″W x 15″D. Solid Wod. Assembly level/degree of difficulty: EasyView product details at Amazon

The First Years Hands Free Gate

Rarely does a mom or dad make it through a day without thinking they could use an extra set of hands. So First Years designed the next best thing — a safety gate that doesn’t require any hands at all! But even though it’s simple for an adult to just press on the pedal and walk through, it’s too difficult for a baby. The gate fits all standard doorways 29″ to 34″ wide, and, with use of the Gate Extension Kit (sold... 

Honeycomb panels by Mykon Systems

These are sandwiched between polycarbonate skins and give a visual fish-eye effect. Each individual cell allows light to pass through it, but together the cells remain translucent. Mykon B-Clear honeycomb panels were used to create the think-tank group study screens. Website: www.mykon-systems.com

South Park Streetscape

A partnership of real estate developers envisioned a complete revitalization of the South Park neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles. Their plan to rehabilitate a complete city block has become the first new residential neighborhood in this area in twenty-three years. The structures are also the first “green” residential high-rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles. Collectively, the development is one block comprised of many separate projects including... 

DIVA Interior Glass Partitions

DIVA, from Nordwall, is a movable partition wall system with daylighting and sound-control benefits that uses 48- or 60-inch by up to 20-feet glazed or solid panels, deployed vertically or horizontally. With single- or double-pane, ¼-inch tempered glass options, a sound transmission class (STC) of 40 is achieved—a typical fiberglass-insulated wall has an STC of approximately 39. Manual or remote-controlled venetian blinds located within the glass... 

Weyerhaeuser Signs a Non-Binding Letter of Intent to Sell Commercial Construction Business To Atlas Holdings

Weyerhaeuser Company signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its Trus Joist® Commercial division to Greenwich, Connecticut-based Atlas Holdings. The proposed transaction will include four manufacturing plants across the United States (located in Chino, Calif.; Hillsboro, Ore.; Delaware, Ohio and Stayton, Ore.) and 13 sales and engineering offices. About 428 employees concentrated in the Northwest, Southwest and East serve the business. “Our... 

The MaBelle Suspension Lamp by Archirivolto

Working together with various designers just like A.BROUX & P, GOURDON, ALBORS EDUARDO, ANATOMIC FACTORY, ARCHIRIVOLTO, ARTER & CITTON, ARTUSO MASSIMILIANO, BUCCI & SCHWARZER, CADDEO ROBERTO, Chinellato Mattia, DE LUCCHI PAOLO, DE ROSSI DANILO, D’AMBROSIO GIOVANNI, JOUIN PATRICK and so on to create such a great masterpiece of contemporary lighting including wall, ceiling, table, suspension, floor,indoor and outdoor lamps, The manufacture... 

Pod Living

The Perth, Australia based architect Jean-mic Perrine recently completed one of the project design designing The PerrinePod, a modular stackable prefab home. via

AIA extends deadline for 2007 Top Ten Green Project submissions

The AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) is accepting online submissions for the 2007 COTE Top Ten Green Projects awards program. The deadline has been extended from January 17 to January 31, 2007. Since 1996, this juried recognition program has celebrated the best in sustainable design. This unusual set of requirements is part of the program’s recognition of the importance of qualitative and quantitative elements of sustainable design. These... 

Cooper Lighting Launches Security Floodlights with Advanced Doppler Technology

Cooper Lighting, the leading provider of high-quality lighting fixtures, introduces Precision Plus Doppler Radar Motion Activated Outdoor Security Floodlights, an innovative system that uses advanced technology to deliver a wider blanket of security coverage than most motion sensors on the market can provide. Many of the motion sensor lights available today use only Passive Infrared (PIR) technology, which picks up side-to-side movement, but can...