Color is a major consideration for those designing the built environment. A skyscraper, school complex, office building or residential structure is destined to be perceived by the public eye. Because ...

A new material developed by researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker's School of Molecular Engineering can change its colors depending on the temperature, to help buildings change color.

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have designed a chameleon-like building material that changes its infrared color—and how much heat it absorbs ...

Sto distribution centre in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by Michael Wilford & Associates, 1994-1995. Photographed by Richard Bryant, image courtesy of Sto Working with color is, above all, challenging.