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Speed Limits at the Wolfsonian
It's easy to forget, considering how much technology we interact with today, that the roots of modernism have everything to do with making sense of the machine. The industrial machine offered modes…
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Boston Translation
Boston's rich history is potently infused into its dense, bustling neighborhoods, where the same brick walls that once contained cobbler shops now house Internet startups. The adaptive reuse of…
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Massimo Iosa Ghini: The Speed of Design
Designer Massimo Iosa Ghini takes a moment to reflect on the hazards of speed and the merits of Europe’s standard of living.
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Powering the Dream
In Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology writer and Dwell contributor Alexis Madrigal tells the story of clean tech in America through the forgotten pioneers and visionary…
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Dreams of Eames
Every April, the design world trots off to Milan to show its new wares, but traipsing through the massive show, we couldn't shake a certain sense of déjà vu. In 1946, Eliot Noyes…
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Dreams Happen
Dreams Happen is a biennial fundraising event benefiting Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) and hosted by Stanford Shopping Center. The event teams local architects and builders in the…
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Speed and Glamour: Early Automobiles and New York City
New York City played an important role in making the automobile an icon of modernism. Join Phil Patton, automobile design expert and co-curator of the Museum's exhibition Cars, Culture, and the…
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SF Dream House Raffle
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco is raffling off a $2.4 million house, making it the most expensive home ever known to be raffled off for philanthropic purposes. The…
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Is accessibility a tenet of good design? I don't know. However, let's just pretend that it is. The median home price in the US is between $185,000 and $285,000, depending on the region, as calculated by the National Association of Realtors. http://www.realestateabc.com/outlook/overall.htm. Let's use the high number and you can even add 10%. How about an entire issue devoted to houses that are below that benchmark ($313,500). Let's be fair and account for square footage as well and this time we will deduct 10% from the median. This would leave us with about 2050 which would be $153/sqft. Show me the modern designer who can do this and they will be the one's who lead the design revolution. I love your magazine; but, just one issue which is devoted to that which is accessible to me and millions of others would really be great. Thanks.
Here! Here! I agree with Mr. Corbin Give us something!
well said, Ryan! I've been looking for nice, modern house plans/designs that are around 2000 s.f and affordable to a middle class family and it's practically impossible. One issue! that's all we ask!
I couldn't concur more. The current modus operandi of these articles "sustainability + good design = boutique home=rich people" and which sends a terrible message and alienates a large swathe of regular people who want a house with a reasonalbe square footage and a reasonable price tag. Dwell should lead the charge in publicizing green design for DWELLings, not PALACES.
I echo your sentiments for an issue with homes that are more accessible in price. I love the design that Dwell delivers, but because of the inherent high cost of most of the homes that are featured in the magazine, I'm often reminding myself as I read: "Don't try this at home". Dwell for the people!
wow, this article blithely dismisses the boston triple-decker housing typology with the single word "elementary", which it is anything but. considered not just as a singular stand-alone building, but as a part of a built-up urban fabric, it's quite a complex spatial phenomenon that supports quite well a rich variety of ways of life - from the extended families that lived in them in the past, to groups of college roommates now, and things in between. considered on its own, the triple-decker's design is quite flexible in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with wall baseboards with clean corners.
Nice phrasing, Ryan, I can't help but notice that Dwell has increasingly turned into a modern version of Architectural Digest. Perhaps the tag line should be "People with an unlimited budget can have a really nice house."
please. dwell. get on it.
It does seem as though the earlier days of Dwell focused more on those with budgetary constraints than the issues of the past couple of years. I'd like to see more articles illustrating good, green design done cheap, as well. Please let us have our cake and eat it, too.
It's funny that these blogs have turned into folks venting about things that they don't that much about. Is it possible to do good design on a budget? Yes it is and this house is proof. Please stop looking at these websites if you are going to sit around and be h8ters. Get out and make change.
Well said Ryan. I like Dwell too but it lost it's focus a long time ago
jhost. i live in Boston. There is NO WAY this property is proof of a tight budget. The land itself,even with a knock down would have cost $300.000
A "triple decker" is a kind of sandwich; a "three decker" is a building style in New England.
I hear all the concerns about affordable housing, but know that this house is in a neighborhood that does not represent Boston's median income bracket. The area around MIT is home to a lot of very expensive new buildings...I say see it as the new Harvard Square.
focus on design, people. this house is beautiful and there are unlimited ways to build for less.
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