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Green Reading
Renderings of a new storage facility for the British Library have been released. The design, by HOK, comes with plenty of interesting details—including an expansive green roofing system&mdash...
written by: Geoff Manaugh01.19.09 -
Cooler Ranch
After searching in vain for an empty lot to build on, architect Brian White settled for a nondescript 1960s ranch that nobody else wanted—and proved that building from the ground up doesn’t always...
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: John Clark01.18.09 -
Garage Brand
With no space to waste, London-based designers Kim Colin and Sam Hecht turned a 1924 garage into the perfect home product.
written by: Amelia Thorpephotos by: Ben Anders01.18.09 -
New Orleans, LA
As New Orleans struggles to get back on its feet, one architect learns from the past while building for the future.
written by: Andrew Wagnerphotos by: Catherine Ledner01.18.09 -
Architectural Adventure
When people ask architects Apurva Pande and Chinmaya Misra where they live, they never get a straightforward answer. The couple's home lies at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere between Culver City...
written by: Chloe Veltmanphotos by: Bryce Duffy01.18.09 -
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City is a sprawling 318 square miles. With the help of creative developers and architects, the three square miles that make up downtown are finally growing up.
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Daniel Hennessy01.18.09 -
A House Grows in Brooklyn
While most people living in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn didn’t see much to love about an abandoned, weedy lot squeezed between two old town houses, one couple couldn’t help...
written by: Tim McKeoughphotos by: Dean Kaufman01.18.09 -
Coral and Tusk - A Chat With Designer Stephanie Housley
Coral and Tusk’s sweet, mostly seafaring motifs are inspired by designer Stephanie Housley’s intrigue with the mysteries of the deep; many of the hand-drawn tableaus depict enchanting...
written by: Jordan Kushins01.18.09 -
Small Amidst Sprawl
Rising out of the Texas bayou, Houston is both a sprawling metropolis and the largest city in the United States without zoning regulations. This cause-and-effect relationship has, over time,...
written by: Amos Klausnerphotos by: Misty Keasler01.18.09 -
Village Green
This place was a filthy dump when we bought it,” says Cathryn Barmon, sipping tea in a knockoff Le Corbusier chair. “I didn’t want to go barefoot until we’d redone the...
written by: Virginia Gardinerphotos by: Raimund Koch01.18.09 -
Things Change / Change Things
Designer Roy McMakin has designed four simple, transparent juice glasses adorned by a progression of the delightfully aphoristic phrases Things Change and Change Things.
written by: Jamie Waugh01.18.09 -
Greg Lynn Recycled Toy Furniture
Perhaps you have spent your entire life thinking that plastic bath toys were very unsophisticated. Rubber Ducky has never been a picture of refinement. It's not too late to transform your opinion,...
written by: Sarah Rich01.18.09 -
Desert Utopia
With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their modern design sensibilities to a broader market.
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Daniel Hennessy01.17.09 -
Angela Adams and The Birds and The Bees
Angela Adams is largely known for her bold textile design, but more recently she's expanded her line to include clean-edged modern furniture.
written by: Laure Joliet01.17.09 -
Small Apple in DUMBO
Perhaps it's because there are more young children in New York City than there have been in decades, according to most census reports, but stylish shops for the under-six set in Brooklyn have...
written by: Jamie Waugh01.17.09 -
DWR: Kitchens - A Chat with Designer Nilus de Matran
Design Within Reach, long an established leader in making modern lifestyles functional and (incredibly) fashionable, is launching a new kitchen range. DWR: Kitchen, a modular and portable system of...
written by: Jordan Kushins01.17.09 -
The Writing's on the Wall
New York-based designer Sherwood Forlee, through Quirk Books, has produced the Walls Notebook, where everything you write is an act of graffiti. Forlee describes it as "a notebook / sketchbook...
written by: Geoff Manaugh01.17.09 -
Community Building
Completed in 2004, the Belmont Street Lofts—with their crisscrossing pattern of wood, metal, and glass—have settled neatly into their neighborhood, offering a contemporary complement to the...
written by: Brian Libbyphotos by: John Clark01.17.09 -
Rising Above It All
Set atop a 1908 warehouse in the Courtenay Precinct of Wellington, New Zealand, the three apartments by Architecture Workshop glow like lanterns at dusk, signaling a new day for this once-seedy...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Richard Powers01.17.09 -
Building Blocks
On a double suburban lot in Tokyo, the Office of Ryue Nishizawa built a neighborhood-scaled, flexible-format minimalist steel prefab compound for Yasuo Moriyama—a very private individual with...
written by: Maggie Kinser Hohlephotos by: Dean Kaufman01.17.09 -
Labor of Loved Ones
Designed by his son and daughter-in-law, and largely built by his family and a host of neighborly helpers, Bill Weber’s new home is all about strengthening the ties that bind.
written by: Lee Bey01.16.09 -
Baton Rouge Oasis
On a lot nobody, particularly the city of Baton Rouge, could love, architect David Baird created an oasis for his family and his community—both interstate-side and street-side.
written by: Donovan Finnphotos by: Roy Zipstein01.16.09 -
Four Houses and a Future
When we first visited Beat Schenk and Chaewon Kim two years ago, they were in the process of building the second house on what has turned into a Cambridge compound. Four houses later, we find that...
written by: Hillary Geronemusphotos by: Adam Friedberg01.16.09 -
WestEnders
One of Portland, Oregon’s, up-and-coming neighborhoods can thank a modern reinterpretation of a previously decrepit building for inspiring a wave of rather chic downtown development.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: John Clark01.16.09 -
Keep Your Eye on the Balto
Coffee shop and bakery owner Greg Martin kept baker’s hours to whip this chimerical Minneapolis building into a modern confection.
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Cameron Wittig01.16.09
