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2008 Issues

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October 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 10,

My House

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…

Detour

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 Pilloton

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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…

Conversation

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…

Conversation

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?”

Essay

Western Promises

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William McDonough + Partners’ design for a small village in northeastern China was meant to stand as a model for sustainable development. Instead, it proves that the pursuit of better design…

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