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Zem Joaquin & Mariel Hemingway
After discussing green living on the Sustainability Stage, ecofabulous founder Zem Joaquin and actress, wellness expert and Cambria USA stonework brand advocate Mariel Hemingway gave us a quick...
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Tammy Vinson07.10.11 -
Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
Love her or hate her, Zaha Hadid's scope is remarkable in terms of the breadth of designs as well as in their diverse locales. Her opera house in Guangzhou was shortlisted for the prestigious RIBA...
written by: Diana Budds09.13.11 -
Zaha Hadid's Milan Installation
As part of last month's Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid Architects teamed with LEA Ceramiche to create "Twirl," a mesmerizing installation in the 18th-century courtyard of the State...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.10.11 -
Young at Any Age
Japanese designer Mikiko Endo lets her wild imagination go to work—–so we can play.
written by: Winifred Bird07.24.11 -
You Are Where You Live
The ads in the real estate section of the Sunday New York Times are a barometer of perceived need: what we think about when we are at our hungriest, our most grasping, our most insecure. Like the...
written by: Karrie Jacobs02.27.11 -
Yes Please More
While the United States is leaps and bounds behind Europe when it comes to publicly funding the arts and design, the city of Denver and Yes Please More are doing their best to encourage creative...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake01.18.11 -
Yerba Buena Street Life Plan
Recently in San Francisco, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District and CMG Landscape Architecture unveiled the Yerba Buena Street Life Plan. The plan is meant to serve as a master plan for the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake08.08.11 -
YBCA's "Remember the Times"
Bay Area artist Lauren DiCioccio's "Remember the Times" is currently on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco. DiCioccio's work transforms the banal objects...
written by: Meredith MacKenzie03.15.11 -
Yasuaki Onoda of ArchiAid
Architect as emergency response worker: that’s the concept behind ArchiAid, an organization founded after Japan’s March 11th tsunami and earthquake that aims to help revive the battered...
written by: Winifred Bird09.20.11 -
Yakitate!
Yakitate, or "freshly-baked" in Japanese, is an accurate description of the piping hot talent curated by the online design magazine designboom for this year's Dwell on Design. Eight...
written by: Alissa Walker06.17.11 -
Words You Should Know: Building Codes
Arm yourself with the vocabulary needed to navigate the world of building codes.
written by: Dan Maginn09.29.11 -
Woodbury Trains Latino Architects
Frequent Dwell contributor and all-around sharp design writer Mark Lamster has a bang-up story in The Architect right now about the rise of Woodbury University, a young architecture school in Los...
written by: Aaron Britt03.23.11 -
Wonderwall Archives 01
Back in 2009 we ran a conversation with Masamichi Katayama about the incredible Japanese retail design outfit Wonderwall. We only showed a handful of photos to go with it, but now with the...
written by: Aaron Britt02.02.11 -
Witold Rybczynski: Makeshift Metropolis
Witold Rybczynski has been called “architecture’s voice in the world of letters” by The Weekly Standard. He writes about design and planning for The New York Times, the...
written by: J. Michael Welton01.01.11 -
Winners of "Healthy Homes" for Haiti
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, ARCHIVE, a non-profit whose efforts center on the use of housing as a strategy for preventing illness and providing care among...
written by: Diana Budds01.12.11 -
Winners of "Bright Ideas" Announced
Eco-living experts Inhabitat just announced the winning designs in their Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition. The goal? To showcase the energy-efficiency and environmental sustainability of...
written by: Diana Budds06.17.11 -
Wine Tasting with Georg Riedel
Not so long ago I was at a dinner with a handful of food writers--I was there merely as a food taster--and the fancy stemware from the Austrian firm Riedel came up. One woman extolled the famed...
written by: Aaron Britt01.21.11 -
Wide White Space
Today the exhibition 'The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space' opens at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (through February 5). The show, which investigates graphic...
written by: Jaime Gillin01.20.11 -
Wichita Rising
Surrounded by cattle-flecked plains smack in the middle of America, Wichita generally has a reputation as a sleepy, middle-of-nowhere kind of place—even though it’s Kansas’s...
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Jake Stangel09.16.11 -
Whitney Sander on Green Building
I first met architect Whitney Sander of Sander Architects in Los Angeles at Dwell on Design this year. He showed me his work, we talked some prefab (one of his firm's specialties) and when it...
written by: Aaron Britt12.24.11 -
Westside L.A. Studio Tour
In its inaugural Summer Studio Tour, Silver Lake architectural non-profit Materials & Applications certainly gave us a lot to chew on. As part of its fundraising efforts for future...
written by: Carren Jaophotos by: Carren Jao06.25.11 -
West Side Story
A comprehensive look at mid-century California design reveals a modern coming of age for the Golden State.
written by: Jordan Kushins09.28.11 -
We're Not in Kansas Anymore
On May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, was wiped off the map. An EF5 tornado ravaged the small town of 1,400 residents, destroying or severely damaging 95 percent of the city. Less than a week later,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Alec Soth04.06.11 -
WasteLandscape Made of CDs
Scrolling through Dezeen recently—always an inspiring source for cool new projects and ideas—I came upon this eye-catching installation in the “Halle d’Aubervilliers”...
written by: Jaime Gillin08.16.11























