Live Beautifully: Why Historic Buildings Have Texture You Just Can’t Buy
How do you live beautifully? Everyone has different inspirations and details that make their approach to design, life, and beauty uniquely theirs. A single color or architectural element can...
Why Healthcare and Design Must Co-Exist in Medical Spaces
Watch as hosts Daniel Litwin and Tyler Kern are joined by Clarus Director of Vertical Sales Jason Pierret. Clarus is an industry-leading producer of glass dry-erase boards. The three...
How AEC is Preparing for a Digital Future
Construct AEC Education and Expo recently concluded its 2019 event in National Harbor, Maryland after four days of learning and networking. Architects, designers, and construction professionals all had the...
Preserving Charleston Homes, One Wool Insulation at a Time
The New York Times recently wrote about an architecture critic's quest to bring alive the story of South Carolina's historic homes and real estate in the face of booming...
Why are Specifications so Hard? Lessons From Construct 2019
Architecture and design is a detail-oriented business. Specifications around materials is incredibly important but meeting requirements laid out in potentially outdated manuals can cause delays and headaches for everyone...
How Architects Can Help Clients Form their Forever Home
MarketScale producer Taylor Bagley met up with notable Chicago-area designer Taryn Lund at this year's Chicago Build Expo. Lund has built a reputation in the custom residential architecture world,...
The 2019 Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show Takes Over Toronto
The Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show 2019 (CMTS 2019) kicks off this week at The International Centre in Toronto, Ontario. This manufacturing and technology mecca will feature more than 3,000,000...
Element Sessions: Using Texture to Guide Design
Sight, scent, sound, taste, and touch: Of the five senses, we often overlook the powerful effects of touch. But at California Closets, the design team is putting texture at...
Live Beautifully: Every Corporate Interior Should Have Its Own DNA
On this episode of Live Beautifully, a HanStone Quartz podcast, host Daniel Litwin sat down with Joyce Fownes, principal, office director, and interior studio lead for Corgan. In her 40...
Made In America: Big Ass Fans in the Bluegrass State
When a consumer buys a product made in the United States, he or she is making an investment in more than just a physical product. The impact of that...
How Builders Can Achieve a Net Zero Energy Future
Aesthetics are no longer the only consideration for design materials in the eyes of many construction professionals. There is no shortage of building projects going up across the United...
Why Virtual Design Software is Leaving a Lasting Impact on the Design Workforce
MarketScale regular, Paul Doherty, and Shawn Phillips, Director of Virtual Design and Construction met up at the Chicago Build Expo to discuss how as BIM evolves the industry will...
5 Trends Transforming Architecture in 2019
Peoples' interests and tastes fluctuate in all areas of life but one that is constantly in motion is architecture and design. Builders and architects must constantly gauge the pulse...
When Will Net-Zero Buildings Be The Design Standard?
Sustainability was among the major themes at this year’s Chicago Build Expo. More and more architects and builders have been striving to create more eco-friendly projects but questions and...
Live Beautifully: Designing Inspirational Homes With the Homeowner in Mind
In the age of Instagram and Pinterest, everyone fancies themselves as an interior designer. Though these digital media outlets are certainly ripe with visual inspiration, professional interior designers take...
Made In America: A New MarketScale Original Series
Why stay in America? In today's global marketplace there are are still companies surviving and thriving right in our own backyard. We're hitting the road in search of America's most...
Watson Career Opportunity: Transforming Tech in the Workplace as a Sales Account Manager
On this Architecture & Design Jobcast, brought to you by MarketScale, we sat down with Jessica Reiks of Watson, a furniture manufacturer creating user-centered, tech-ready, and future proof consoles,...
The Power of Color in Interior Design
The allure of color has long been a fascination in the design world. While you may walk into a room and think that the colors were randomly chosen, typically,...
What Lies In Your Walls? Exploring the Healthy Alternative to Fiberglass Insulation
Today’s consumers are more and more concerned with their health and the health of the planet, and their buying choices reflect these holistic values. Construction materials, like insulation, are...
Communicating a Green Insulation Responsibility to Customers
As consumers develop an interest in healthy, high-performance building products, coarse wool products such as Havelock Wool are becoming the gold standard for a truly green insulation product. Today on...
Made in America: Coming Soon to MarketScale
Some things truly must be seen to be believed. Often though, what it takes to make those items is actually more jaw-dropping. Every day in the United States, people go...
What Can Art Do For Airports?
Airports have long suffered from a reputation of stress and anger among travelers. This is mostly tied to long lines, crammed spaces and steep prices. However, interactive experiences including...
Window Shades Create More Comfortable and Productive Workplaces
Summertime is primetime for the construction industry, but those summer temperatures and bright sunlight serve as visible reminders for how important solar control products are for buildings and their...
Metrocon 2019: Setting a Standard for Building Health and Wellness
Increasingly, buildings have adapted to the personalities of the businesses that inhabit them. Flexibility in the workplace has changed corporate functionality, but also brought about new challenges. Not only are...
Element Sessions: Which interzum 2019 Trends Will Head Across the Pond?
There is always a new interior design trend around the corner. Some designs last through the ages, while others fade away as fads; today we explore the ones that...