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October 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 10,

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Salvage Love

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The first year out of college is a wildcard for most people. Whether spent bumming around Europe with a backpack or slogging through a suffocating desk job, it’s often a year with little…

Off the Grid »

Retail Therapy

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In the great American quest for more stuff, big-box stores are nirvana, laden with cheaply priced items by the ton, from diamond earrings to toilet paper. So isn’t it a good thing that many…

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Honolulu, Hawaii

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Today, if you tallied the world’s design capitals, you’d be forgiven for overlooking Honolulu. But when it came to modern architecture in the 1950s and ’60s, all eyes were on…

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Magic Mountain

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Architect Ko Wibowo designed a house of prodigious proportions beneath the hulking rise of Mount Ranier.

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Lone Star

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Rural Texas commonly conjures visions of Stetsons, spurs, and longhorn steer, but the countryside contains more than just cowboys. On a wide stretch of farmland, the Farley Studio brings modern…

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Plains Gold

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Architect Jamie Darnell had a simple plan for his family’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, but the result is anything but plain.

Process »

Glo-Ball

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Flos—Designers and manufacturers bemoan the profusion of cheaply made copycats, but it’s been proven time and again that truly great design can never be obscured by poor imitation. For evidence, look…

Outside »

Mother's Nature

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The Watershed is an off-the-grid writer’s retreat that architect Erin Moore designed for her mother, nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore.

Concepts »

Upwardly Mobile Homes

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When it comes to real estate, the trailer park gets a bad rap. But some designers think that this forsaken corner of the market is worthy of reevaluation—and even resuscitation.

Nice Modernist »

Emily Pilloten

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With the offices of her upstart nonprofit, Project H, located in the same space as Cameron Sinclair’s Architecture for Humanity, Emily Pilloton’s everyday life is steeped in a desire to…

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Steve Lambert

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Office workers ride zip lines down the streets of San Francisco, where a roller coaster has been installed as a new form of public transport: Welcome to the artistic world of Steve Lambert, who…

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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

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"One of the good things about doing decent public design in a prominent place is that people look at it and say: Why can’t we have that everywhere?”

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