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"Looking for a ceramic with a smooth texture? Or need a matt fire-resistant plastic?" The materials search engine at www.materialexplorer.com should be able to provide you with some answers.

At the International Construction Fair (last week, the Netherlands) a new search engine has been launched, the Material Explorer. Materials themselves are selected by Materia, an independent agency run by architects with a record of publications and exhibitions on new materials. The initiative is meant to become a communication platform for architects, producers, designers and developers.

After a free of charge registration, different types of materials can be searched using keywords, by project/architect, or even better by technical and sensorial properties. Imagery and brief descriptions provide us background information on our search results. For more information a useful manufacturer reference has been included, and interesting materials can be simply be ‘added to favorites’.

At WorldChanging, Materia notes that more useful features are under development and coming up soon, therefore definitely worth checking out…