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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 -
A Picture of A Fake Holiday Tree
A holiday tree typically comes out of the earth, or on stands in cardboard boxes. Three designers, however, have taken a different approach—the self-adhesive Christmas tree wall sticker is...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.05.08 -
A Wilder Wallpaper
There's been a wallpaper renaissance in the last few years. Design-savvy decorators came through their single-color paint rebellion against the visual assault of trite, cluttered, antiquated prints...
written by: Jamie Waugh02.07.09 -
Ada = Architecture in New York
Ada Louise Huxtable is the doyenne of architecture criticism in New York, if not the world: as architecture critic at the New York Times from the early 60s until the early 80s, and more recently,...
written by: Jamie Waugh11.22.08 -
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 -
Affordable, Green Revitalization in Syracuse
As demands rise for sustainability and affordability in residential housing, many academic institutions are racing to hold an edge on innovation in their architecture programs. Syracuse University...
written by: Jamie Waugh02.08.09 -
AIGA Aspen Design Challenge
How can excess hair from beauty salons be used to clean oil spills? How do you convince six- to twelve-year-old children in China to conserve water? Projects adopting these two questions, among...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.04.08 -
Airstream Books
There's a magical nook on Williamsburg's Metropolitan Ave. sidewalk where the Graham St. L Train vent allows the underground train's announcements to waft up through the grates to the hardware...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.06.08 -
Always-Good Wood
Maybe it's a response to the proliferation of concrete in the 90s, or a flight to the natural away from a world of plastics: but this most traditional of materials is making a comeback—if it...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.08.08 -
Angel Investors
For over ten years, Angel Street Thrift Shop has attracted savvy Manhattanites to Chelsea–those with the bravery and general wherewithal to buy the authentic, the used, and the discounted,...
written by: Jamie Waugh11.22.08 -
Battery Park City Community Center
Approaching 9/11, New York's unspoken heart is in Battery Park. Relevant, then, is the community center Hanrahan Meyers is developing immediately north of Ground Zero. It's condo central in those...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.09.08 -
Blooming in the Bronx
If all goes according to plans by Magnusson Architecture and Planning, there will be a new affordable, environmentally–considerate residence in the neighborhood in the not-too-distant future.
written by: Jamie Waugh09.03.08 -
Bloomingdale Interiors Get New
Modernism and Manhattan's Bloomingdale's have not exactly been close bedfellows over the years. Here and there, the department store has sold its share of legends—including Knoll, for example...
written by: Jamie Waugh01.27.09 -
Blu Dot's Modular SHILF Shelf
The folks at Blu Dot have taken a cue from IKEA and issued a new style of modular shelving called the "SHILF." Like the Swedish icon's products, Blu Dot's shelving is designed for DIY...
written by: Jamie Waugh02.10.09 -
Breakfast with Barack
What do Barack Obama, Scarlett O'Hara, and Elvis have in common? Plates.
written by: Jamie Waugh01.26.09 -
Brooklyn Bridge Park Continues
Fancy waterfalls, grassy parks, and picnicking families have been replacing concrete, refuse, and pier sheds at the bottom end of Manhattan, where legends of mafia murders once reigned. Notable in...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.17.08 -
Calypso in Air
The Whitney Museum of American Art recently put on view a collection of Alexander Calder mobiles from 1926-1933, so it's perhaps of interest to check out another artist of this medium in New York. ...
written by: Jamie Waugh11.08.08 -
Can't Get Enough Carbs—or Jonathan Adler
Calling all Upper West Siders: no longer any need to travel to Soho, the village or the Upper East Side to pay a visit to Jonathan Adler.
written by: Jamie Waugh11.06.08 -
Ceramic Chic
There was a time when earthenware was unappreciated: once the 80s hit the world, handcrafts—as a vestige of a musty, dusty era—suggested a serious case of the blah's. However of late,...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.14.08 -
Cosmo Modern
It's been said that a person's first name ultimately defines them; and Cosmo is no exception. He is the owner of Cosmo Modern, a concrete-floored universe of mid-century modern furnishings that all...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.09.08 -
De La Espada Sale
Modernists and craftsmen are often seen as the guys who wear all black and the guys who wear flannels, respectively. However contemporary meets craft in just about everything De La Espada puts out.
written by: Jamie Waugh10.24.08 -
Design for Democracy
If the presidential debates haven't satisfied your election appetite, the AIGA professional association for design offers a tantalizing next course.
written by: Jamie Waugh10.08.08 -
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 -
Doshi Levien: Myth and Material
The Design Duo of Doshi Levien has succeeded again: the British design team has produced a compelling collection of work melding whimsy and modernism, Indian tradition and a European approach to...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.16.08 -
Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
The first scenes of Woody Allen's Manhattan capture it: ambitious dreams and New York are synonymous, and buildings are the manifestation of the connection. Appropriately, the Museum of Modern...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.04.08
