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  What We Saw »

  At the Verge of Collapse

  Artist Tobias Putrih gave a gallery talk at the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, shedding light on the ideas behind his latest exhibition, Without Out.

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  Out and About »

  This Weekend: 11.19-11.22

  This week we're highlighting a slew of show openings around the world and in the United States focusing on big-name designers and big-name ideas.

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  Conversation »

  Nicolas Henchoz and EPFL + ECAL Lab

  Picked as one of our favorite international design schools in the December/January 2010 issue, EPFL + ECAL Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a new program that marries the design know-how of the…

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  Blog »

  POWERleap: Energy on the Floor

  Over the years the blogosphere has seen a number of stories about generating power from the vibration of people's feet on a train platform, stairs, bridges and even—in perhaps the most…

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  Blog »

  Stair Lust

  Somehow stairs have become the object of "design porn" of late, and while it seems as likely that lamps or sofas or kitchen cabinetry could feature in lusty internet photos, stairs prove…

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  Product Spotlight »

  Color-Changing Roof Tiles

  Living in a temperate climate, and deciding between a dark roof and a white roof? Trying to calculate if your summertime benefit with a light roof will outweigh the potential wintertime losses? We…

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  The Future of »

  Luxury: Evaluating Values

  Luxury, a term that once conjured images from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, is now just as often used to aggrandize personal organizers, iPod cases, and websites. So we turned to Augustin…

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  Three Buildings »

  Toronto, Ontario

  Toronto, Ontario, is one metropolis that never ceases to amaze me with its never-ceasing construction. I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and always loved being able to see the city from across Lake…

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  Dwellings »

  Creative Commons

  Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about forming the community that…

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  The Future of »

  Driving: Joy Ride

  San Francisco–based design team Mike and Maaike wave goodbye to the driver's seat with their concept car, the ATNMBL (the "autonomobile"). Consider it a high-tech living room on…