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Compost Modern
With the new year comes new resolutions and a general resolve to do better. Perhaps at the top of many of our lists is the question of how to live more responsibly. This February's conference,...
written by: Laure Joliet12.31.08 -
East Harlem Green
Another notch in the bedpost of green development: Tapestry, a residential building in East Harlem designed for LEED Silver certification, has broken ground.
written by: Jamie Waugh12.30.08 -
Southern Comfort
Louisville, Kentucky, is a river town built around 19th-century commerce and trade. Downtown, old brick facades remind of this era of bustling industry when riverboats and trains moved raw...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.29.08 -
The City As Seen
As the everyday circumstances of urban life continue to change—whether due to tools like GPS-enabled cell phones or to high-tech security measures passed in the wake of September 11—how...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.28.08 -
The New Garden Museum
The Garden Museum in London has re-opened—and rebranded—after a short and surprisingly affordable modern makeover by the talented local firm Dow Jones Architects. I had the pleasure of...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.27.08 -
Leah Evans Textiles
Leah Evans is in the business of quilt-making. But seeing as how her creations feature aerial photography, maps, and satellite imagery, they are definitely not your grandmother's quilts.
written by: Laure Joliet12.25.08 -
The Latest from Michelle Kaufmann
Michelle Kaufmann's new mkHearth is a semi-prefab house that evokes old-timey barns and vacation-destination chalets. Like all of Kaufmann's celebrity-architect-branded housing products, the...
written by: David A. Greene12.24.08 -
Pop (Up) Architecture
To get to know a building well, is it easier to walk through it or to read about it? With Universe Publishing's recently released book, Modern Architecture Pop-Up by Anton Radevsky and David Sokol,...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.24.08 -
Piece of Cake
For some, the holidays are about indulgence while for others, it’s a tricky balancing act of holiday desserts and a healthy diet. For eager-to-please hosts, German designer Konstantin...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.23.08 -
A Laptop Even A Panda Could Love
Discarded computers arrive by the thousands every day from the US and Western Europe to West African ports, after which they're discarded in toxic dumps. Children burn them and pull out the metals...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.23.08 -
House of Futures Past
Prince Charles, long an advocate of sustainability in architecture—including the use of natural building materials and the planting of organic gardens, but very conservative on the aesthetic...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.23.08 -
Bunker Archaeology
Paul Virilio's classic book of wartime architectural history, Bunker Archeology, is finally back in print with a fantastic new edition from Princeton Architectural Press. The book had taken on the...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.22.08 -
Coasters that Represent
Local Los Angeles design store darlings A+R have launched their first ever co-branded product. Teaming up with Japanese artist Nobuhiro Sato they've come out with some coasters that are...
written by: Laure Joliet12.22.08 -
Eames Gossip
In the wake of InStyle Magazine's feature on the TV show "Gossip Girl" and its modern-mashup Manhattan apartment set (aka the Bass/Van der Woodsen residence, if you're a cognoscento), mid...
written by: David A. Greene12.22.08 -
The Recessionista: DIY Quilts
When Julie Floersch discusses her quilts, she could be talking about the science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time or New Age studies of dimensions of reality.
written by: Jamie Waugh12.21.08 -
Uniformity of Design
Where do typography, fashion, and history come together every spring, summer, and fall? On pro baseball uniforms, is where.
written by: David A. Greene12.21.08 -
Foundry-Fab
City Foundry on Atlantic Avenue is a cavernous, industrial space stuffed corner-to corner with furniture that is, for the most part, made of cast iron, aluminum, and other metals.
written by: Jamie Waugh12.21.08 -
Built Like a Concrete House
Dorit Mizrahi and Oliviero Godi, working in Bergamo, Italy, as the firm Exposure Architects, have designed a house using prefabricated panels made of pollution-eating TX-Active concrete.
written by: David A. Greene12.20.08 -
Domestic Gone Wild
The name "domestic" conjures up many images and variations—often it's seen to suggest the hum-drum of what's too familiar, or the confines of four tight walls. Domestic pets....
written by: Jamie Waugh12.20.08 -
Philippe Starck, Discount Shopper?
“In a time of financial crisis, we must go back to timeless objects and rediscover the elegance of basics,” said designer Philippe Starck, right before his shopping spree through...
written by: Laure Joliet12.20.08 -
Fun with Color
For the visually inclined, Flickr can be an invitation to spend hours meandering virtually through the snapshots of strangers (an assuredly more rewarding vortex than party photos of your Facebook...
written by: Sarah Rich12.19.08 -
Sometimes You Need A Little Guardian
The Rome-based design firm Tokidoki—Japanese for "sometimes"—produces high-concept toys for adults and kids both, including my personal favorites: an armed couple named...
written by: Geoff Manaugh12.19.08 -
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Dwell Tests: Bialetti Hot Chocolate Pot, Dagoba Hot Chocolate
Coffee gets its percolator and tea has its kettle, but hot chocolate is most often relegated to a mug in the microwave. Why is this warm bev missing out on a maker all its own? Bialetti’s Hot...
written by: Jordan Kushins12.18.08 -
Eco-Me Home Kit
When Robin Kay Levin’s then 36-year-old sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005—without any family history of the disease—Levin began wondering just how toxic to our...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.18.08
