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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…

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  The Future of »

  Play: Electric Slide

  A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy.

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  Week in Review »

  Friday Finds 11.13.2009

  Just a collection of Internet fun, submitted for your viewing pleasure by your friendly Dwell staffers. Happy Friday!

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  Blog »

  A New Nørreport for Copenhagen

  While I was studying abroad last spring in Copenhagen, every morning on my way to school I passed through the busiest train hub, Nørreport Station. Whether on bike, bus, or train, it was…

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  Conversation »

  Gregg Stobs, Retail Design Director

  Last week warranted a design detour to Portland for a panel discussion on contemporary Chinese design hosted by OFFICE PDX, an online design shop and pop-up retailer, in conjunction with the China…

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  What We Saw »

  STREB Dancers Are Action Architects

  Considered neither modern nor contemporary dance, but more circus or rodeo with a dash of extreme sports and Hollywood-esque stunt-work, the STREB company dancers are known to perform petrifying…

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  Dwellings »

  Engraved House

  As artist Christopher Griffin and aesthetician Oresta Korbutiak prepared to renovate their live-work space in Ottawa, the couple sought an architect who would respect the bones of the building, the…

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  Blog »

  DC Deli Office Renovation

  While reporting one of our feature stories in the September issue, I became pals with the owners and residents at Taylor Gourmet, the H St. NE deli we featured. David Mazza and Casey Patten did a…

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  Product Spotlight »

  3-D Modeling Fashion

  As digital fabrication meets high design, we find more and more examples of amazing furniture and household products (and even interior surfaces and architectural facades) that use 3-D modeling and…

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  Dwellings »

  Greener Pasture

  Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of Auvillier is a modern play on centuries-old forms and technology.

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