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  Architecture »

  Young Guns: Best New Practices 2009

  In 2005, the AIA New York launched the New Practices program to showcase promising new and emerging architectural firms. This year, the AIA San Francisco launched the West Coast debut of the…

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  Week in Review »

  Friday Finds 11.06.2009

  Friday arrives again! This week the Dwell staff shares their favorite links of late, featuring everything from a chair-related experiment happening on the streets of New York to the world's first…

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  Event Spotlight »

  Opportunity Green: This Weekend

  This coming Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, Opportunity Green will be hitting Los Angeles for its third consecutive year. The two-day conference brings together entrepreneurs and innovators…

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  What We Saw »

  Rail-Volution 2009: Building with Transit

  As a nod to the home of the nation's first subway, Rail-Volution rolled into Boston this past weekend. Planners, designers, engineers, and scholars eagerly feasted on the many workshops and panels…

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  Dwell Reports »

  Media Matters

  Though the contents of every cassette, LP, and VHS tape you've ever owned can now fit inside a gadget the size of a tie clip, your plasma TV and subwoofer still need a resting place. Film archivist…

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  Out and About »

  Events this Weekend: 11.5-11.8

  The days are getting shorter, the nights are darker earlier, and with rain forecasted around the country this weekend, there's no better time to spend a day at the museum. This weekend's highlights…

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  Conversation »

  Miguel Nelson of Woolly Pocket

  The path to a better world isn't through pavers but via plants, says artist and Woolly Pocket founder Miguel Nelson. "I love architecture but I think if everyone was gardening instead of…

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  Off the Grid »

  Brand-New Secondhand

  Fifteen minutes from downtown Seattle, architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo transformed the neighborhood dump—a lot that had been vacant for 30 years—into their dream home.

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  Essay »

  Sunday Styles

  The cathedrals, mosques, and synagogues of the Old World still occupy the most hallowed ground of ecclesiastical architecture, but a rather unorthodox American sect can lay claim to the best in…

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  Product Spotlight »

  New Design from Very Good & Proper

  In this year's June issue, our Square Meal column featured the London restaurant mini-chain Canteen, where good design is as high a priority as good taste. The owner of Canteen also runs a design…