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A Pencil for Your Thoughts
A blank journal is an exciting journal. Whether you’re planning on penning the next great American novel or reminding yourself to pick up milk on the way home, there’s something about...
written by: Jordan Kushins10.07.08 -
Prefab Treehouses
Who didn't want a tree house growing up? Well now you can either live vicariously through your kids or indulge in the greatest mid life crisis ever. Or, in a few cases, downsize to a...
written by: Laure Joliet10.07.08 -
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 -
Cityracks Finalists Announced
The 10 finalists in New York's CityRacks Design Competition have been announced—and more importantly, prototypes of their designs installed on the streets of 4 boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn,...
written by: David A. Greene10.08.08 -
MUJI to GO Opens at JFK
MUJI, the Japanese brand famous for being tastefully brandless, will soon open a retail shop in JetBlue's new Terminal 5 at New York's JFK airport. The terminal, which was originally designed by...
written by: Sarah Rich10.08.08 -
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 -
Dodger Stadium, Modern Classic
Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers have advanced to the next round of the baseball playoffs, it's a good time to consider the team's contribution to modern architectural history: Dodger Stadium.
written by: David A. Greene10.09.08 -
World's Tallest Lego Tower
Remember those lazy days making Lego houses and hospitals, clicking everything into place and feeling that you'd really built something? Well imagine being one of the kids that helped build...
written by: Laure Joliet10.09.08 -
Adjaye Tapped for Two DC Branch Libraries
This weekend I met up with a friend who lives in Washington DC and was in San Francisco for a visit. I lived in Washington from 2004-2006 and we soon started talking DC politics. She’s...
written by: Aaron Britt10.09.08 -
The Upper Rust
The pharmaceutical, industrial, institutional and educational: these areas have been mines as of late for industrial chic antiques that enchant in spite of their otherwise cold surfaces of chrome...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.10.08 -
Fabrics by the People, for the People
Since the dawn of e-commerce, many businesses have been liberated from the steep costs of renting retail space and paying salespeople to walk the floor. With the advent of Web 2.0, entrepreneurs...
written by: Sarah Rich10.10.08 -
Tiny Teaks
Good things come in small packages, like Danish modernism in Dansk-emblazoned boxes. In the 1960s, industrial designer Jens Quistgaard introduced his country’s aesthetic to America via a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.10.08 -
Smog-Cutting Concrete
The new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis includes two 30-foot-tall sculptures made of photocatalytic concrete. Though the squiggly sculptures are supposed to invoke the international symbol for...
written by: David A. Greene10.11.08 -
Look to the Lustron
As MoMA's “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling” comes to a close (on Oct. 20), let's give props to the ugly duckling of the prefab bunch, the Lustron House.
written by: David A. Greene10.12.08 -
Last Day: Waterfalls
Today—Monday, October 13—is the final day Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls will be flowing into the East River. If you've managed to miss the City of New York project thus far, and have...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.13.08 -
Urban Sprawl, Squared
The Places We Live is a new book of extraordinary photographs by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen, documenting the teeming urban slums and shantytowns of four world cities: Nairobi, Mumbai,...
written by: David A. Greene10.13.08 -
Housing in Crisis, Part II: Three Words for 'Boom"
The American house throughout the nation's history has represented grand concepts: success, strength of family unit, motivation to put up with the 45-hour work week, and mortgage-tied anvil to the...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.13.08 -
Wall Calendar to Keep Track of the Big Picture
Although it may be difficult to fit it in your pocket, and it certainly lacks the convenience of an iPhone or Blackberry, this calendar wallpaper leaves space to see the year at a glance and to...
written by: Laure Joliet10.14.08 -
In the Future, We Will All Drive Pacmen
For the ultimate in zero-emissions driving, forget hydrogen and embrace air: Compressed-air cars are real, and the French company MDI have been trying to get them on the road for years.
written by: David A. Greene10.15.08 -
Flipped Strips
Tired of the never-ending parade of nondescript strip malls, the Scottsdale Museum of Art recently held a competition to rethink the strips.
written by: Laure Joliet10.15.08
