Explore - Aluminum

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   Outdoor

   Botanical Garden Pavilion

   When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, architect and University of Kentucky lecturer Mike McKay felt the pull to go down to the Big Easy to help with a task that was anything but easy:...

   written by: Miyoko Ohtake

   03.23.10

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   Product of the Day

   Nature of Material

   Israeli designer Ran Amitai has a new line of stacking stools that merge organic with high-tech to lovely effect.

   written by: Sarah Rich

   01.31.10

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   Post

   Mimi Cahalan's "Good Long Look"

   In 2008, Mimi Cahalan, a Santa Cruz, California-based artist, was commissioned to create a piece of art to line the outdoor entranceway to the Lido Apartments in Santa Monica, California. After...

   written by: Miyoko Ohtake

   04.02.09

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   Profiles

   Brooklyn Renaissance

   Thanks to a group of young Brooklyn architects, an immigrant neighborhood untouched by gentrification gets low-income housing with high ideals.

   written by: Michael Cannell

   02.26.09

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   Green

   Well Thawed Out

   At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based design firm Minarc, bought what was essentially a teardown in the...

   written by: Kathryn Harris

   photos by: Raif Seeburger

   02.01.09

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   House Tours

   Home Schooled

   The house at 157 Congress Run in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming was a fine little place, a sturdy 1940s brick Cape with trim, boxy rooms and an undulating yard punctuated with old trees. In...

   written by: Georgina Gustin

   photos by: Chad Holder

   01.16.09

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   My House

   Ski Lift

   This New York turned ski bum took a little piece of the city to the mountains, and never looked back.

   written by: Heather Wagner

   photos by: Bjorn Wallander

   01.15.09

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