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After its tremendous success helping with the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina, Architecture for Humanity has announced...

If one of your New Year's resolutions was to keep in better touch with family and friends, consider doing it in style the old...

Household exercise machines are typically a dismal affair: bulky treadmills and unsightly elliptical machines relegated to back...

Though it was released in 2006, lately I've been appreciating David Weeks' Sing Sing Dinner Plate.

If you find yourself entering East New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, like most other airports an expressway and...

Driving gloves, check. Aviator sunglasses, check. Hair gel and minty-fresh breath spray—check.

The White House groundskeepers have made some progress and have launched a gardening practice designed to be more...

Most modern furniture aficionados are loyal to the classic molded shell chairs, cast in brightly colored plastic and formed into...

For fans of good design, great writing, and smart cultural objects, consider the Bük.

As of Spring 2009, Manhattan will have a preschool that focuses specifically on art and environment.

Even though fuel is cheap, in the current economy some of us may feel like we have to forgo vacations to conserve cash.

As more and more of the design press moves to the web, I'd like to take a moment to remind you blog-hungry architecture fiends...

The first hydrogen-fuel-cell public transit bus west of the Mississippi will make its debut this coming spring in beautiful...

To build a chair usually does not begin with filling a large glass tank with water, nor does it involve submerging polyester...

We’re heading into an uncertain future, but two things are clear: Technology is getting better and the environment is getting...

What is a paper engineer? Something like an architect—but for paper. (Think pop-up books and origami, not bridges and skyscrapers.

A “tree house” of clean lines, ample glass, and thoughtful ingenuity lets a Washington, DC–area family and a stream of weekend...

Home as sanctuary: it's a parallel famously established by the Japanese and Thai, but the Irish? New York-based, Dublin-raised...

The feel-good story: The first six houses funded by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation have been completed in the Lower Ninth...

Just a couple days ago the Los Angeles Times posted a slideshow of their picks for the Best Architecture: 2008, complete with...

On a 21-acre plot in New York's Catskills Mountains lies an enchanting organization, the Andes Sprouts Society, which is devoted...

If your resolutions this year involve simplicity and well-designed products, look into designer Kathleen Hills.

Most appliance-buyers in the U.S. are prisoners of big-box and old-school retailers like Sears, Home Depot, and Best Buy, but...

Moving parts mean friction; friction means a drag on engine efficiency.

When it comes to hard-wearing, utilitarian consumer goods, there are a few acknowledged design classics: Emeco's Navy Chair comes...

The Slow Food movement, not the mention Frtiz Haeg's modern day Victory Gardens, have sparked a renewed interest in canning and...

Meet three women who are helping keep MIT’s architecture program—America’s first—at the forefront of design innovation.

When a couple in Amsterdam decided to upgrade their residence from a small houseboat to a larger one, they sought a design that...

On the roof, amidst an array of native wild grasses and shrubs, six banks holding 180 small thermal solar collection tubes...

The 20 finalists in the Your Design City photography competition on flickr have been announced.

Call it the recession or just plain creativity in the air, but DIY just feels relevant these days.

Influenced by Isamu Noguchi’s sculptural playscapes, pioneering civic and landscape architects like Richard Dattner, M. Paul...

Bruce Aidells starting cooking professionally while a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz.

Leonard Koren has led an enviably desultory life, first dropping out of college to paint murals with a group called the Los...

The space outside your walls should be as thoughtfully considered as the space within.

Your garage, laundry room, basement, and other nonglam support areas: These are the silent killers of energy-efficiency in your...