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London at Night
Jason Hawkes's aerial photos of London at night make an old city look new again.
written by: David A. Greene09.02.08 -
September 11th Memorial & Museum
On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we turn our attention toward building plans for ground zero, where a 24-foot-by-9-foot, 7,770-pound beam National September 11 Memorial & Museum project...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.11.08 -
Re-Opening: The Museum of Arts and Design
Two Columbus Circle once was a stout-yet-hip white building with black porthole-esque forms around it: channeling 1960s mod better than any building could, courtesy of architect Edward Durell Stone...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.14.08 -
Mixed Signals
Leave it to the French to have fun with something extraordinarily mundane.
written by: Laure Joliet09.18.08 -
London Design Festival
The London Design Festival party last night was full of hedge-funders seeking free drinks and nibbles. The city, reeling from this week's events, seemed to turn up in force at the down-at-heel arts...
written by: Sam Jacob09.18.08 -
Portmanteau
A wall of cinderblock, tiny windows, layers of dust and a steel door: for some, this is a typical Manhattan apartment. For others, it's the scene before the murder scene in a horror flick. For Jim...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.19.08 -
London Design Festival: Kanittha Mairaing
Goldsmiths' postgraduate design community have a show at The Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery, on Brick Lane as part of the London Design Festival. Amongst the work shown is the 'Unfortunates'...
written by: Sam Jacob09.23.08 -
California Academy of Sciences Preview
The grand opening of the new California Academy of Sciences, one of the year’s most anticipated events, is taking place this weekend. To help you make it through the last few days until the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.23.08 -
Wattson and Holmes Make Monitoring Home Energy Use Elementary
U.K. design firm DIY Kyoto recently announced the launch of cheaper version of its Wattson, an ingenious little device that not only makes monitoring home electricity use a breeze, but even turns...
written by: Bryan Gardiner09.24.08 -
Floating Pool
There was once a steel-decked river barge, decommissioned and idle in Morgan City, Louisiana. Lonely and unused, it was purchased by the Neptune Foundation, a not-for-profit that constructs movable...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.24.08 -
Air France Terminal 2E
Flying from the Air France Terminal at LAX (which has been shifted out of the outdated Tom Bradley Terminal) and arriving in Paris at Terminal 2E is like moving from a basement into a penthouse...
written by: Laure Joliet09.29.08 -
West Coast Green
If green design were easy, everyone would be doing it. And though it makes sense in theory, actual implementation is often easier said than done. How to make all design become sustainable design...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.29.08 -
Affordable Housing for China
Over a million people have moved to Guangzhou in the past eight years, making the city's population nearly ten million today. This urbanization is the trend of cities worldwide; it makes all the...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.01.08 -
Dashboard Confessional
A major obstacle to reducing our energy consumption continues to be our general unawareness of just how much we are using. Most people have no idea exactly how much a shorter shower or a lowered...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.01.08 -
Bioplastic: Green or Greenwashing?
There's a vast field of opportunity right now for designing every day objects using new materials that make them safer and more sustainable. Food containers—which we throw away in astonishing...
written by: Sarah Rich10.01.08 -
Zaha Hadid in Central Park
In time for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week is London-based architect Zaha Hadid's collaboration with Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld to design a pavilion that explores just what it would feel...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.17.08 -
Get Paid to Green Your Home
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs suggests that we only think about fancy needs like self-actualization once we've managed the basics such as food, water, shelter and safety. With a sluggish economy and...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.22.08 -
Referendum on High Speed Rail
In these tumultuous economic times, California voters will soon have a chance to drop a cool $9.95 billion on a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
written by: David A. Greene10.28.08 -
Flickr Pool: Green Buildings and Sustainable Communities
Flickr is a great place to find visual inspiration, often allowing you to travel all around the world right from your desk chair. One group is pooling photos of their favorite green buildings and...
written by: Laure Joliet10.30.08 -
Five Buck Book
Got five dollars lying around? For $5.00 (plus, um, $7.50 shipping), you can snag a copy of George Nelson's 1977 classic How To See: A Guide to Reading our Man Made Environment from Design Within...
written by: David A. Greene11.01.08 -
Systematic Landscapes exhibit at the de Young Museum
Maya Lin’s newly opened exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, titled Systematic Landscapes, depicts a stunning collection of recent and brand-new works that explore what the New...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.04.08 -
Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 Recap
October 30th marked the closing of Seoul, South Korea’s nearly three-week-long Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 at the Jamsil Sports Complex, site of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics. The first...
written by: Aaron Britt11.05.08 -
Marc Tetro
Not only was MOS Archtiects’ Floating House (featured on the cover of our November 2008 issue) a big hit, so was the art hung on their walls.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.06.08
