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At Home in the Modern World

2008 Issues

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Growing Up Green

Building a Sustainable Future

July/August 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 08,

My House

Bay Wash

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With a presence in three centuries, Christi Azevedo’s Victorian survived the quake of 1906 and served as a laundry before its rebirth as a well-lit hybrid of old and new.

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Throne Off Course

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Victorian technology has no business being the receptacle for your business. It’s time to outmode the common commode.

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Ship Shape

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Pieter Weijnen’s brand of maritime modernism brings a touch of magic to Amsterdam’s Steigereiland, where the architect built his family’s home. Inhabiting one of the…

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Post Bale

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Boulder, Colorado, straddles a dynamic geographical border where miles of Rocky Mountains descend into flat plains that stretch all the way to the Appalachians. With four picture-perfect seasons and…

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Echo Logical

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Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways. As Eric Garcetti, president of the City Council, shows, it is eminently possible to live green in the City of Angels. By putting solar power and…

Detour

Hong Kong, China

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Hong Kong’s architectural development can be traced through time by viewing it panoramically from the city’s stratospheric escalators. We survey the layers with local architect Rocco…

Off the Grid

Hot Rocks

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Taking a calculated turn from tradition, two Czech architects designed a modern rendition of a classic Bohemian home, powered by solar panels and a geothermal heat pump that draws energy from the…

Process

Little Field of Flowers

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Nanimarquina—In 1987, Barcelona-based designer Nani Marquina established a textile and rug design studio. Since 1993, the company’s designs have been manufactured in northern India…

Profile

Design Junkie

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"I guess from a young age I collected things that interested me—picked up bizarre things from the street, put them in boxes, or took them to my room."

Nice Modernist

Deborah Leach and Thames21

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If you’ve never heard of “fly-tipping,” then you’ve certainly seen its results. Fly-tipping is the British term for dumping garbage illegally, and it’s the civic…

Conversation

Ed Mazria

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"This isn’t a question of cost: It’s a question of design. Design is how you solve the climate-change problem."

Essay

When We Talk About Good Design

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Many architects and designers, when talked down from the theoretical towers of “sculptural forms” and “floating volumes” and made to speak of their craft in humbler terms…

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