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In time for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week is London-based architect Zaha Hadid's collaboration with Chanel's Karl...

Dubai, that instant city of over-wrought architecture and slave-like laborers, is apparently on the verge of a sewage catastrophe.

With photos now pouring in of newly snow-covered cities across America—or perhaps exactly because of it—we have Hawaii on our...

The Design Duo of Doshi Levien has succeeded again: the British design team has produced a compelling collection of work melding...

If you find yourself in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, next week—or even Belgium, Denmark, or northern Germany—hie thee to Dutch...

An inquisitive exhibit recently extended through January 2009 at the Danish Architecture Center asks “What if architecture could...

Tired of the never-ending parade of nondescript strip malls, the Scottsdale Museum of Art recently held a competition to rethink...

For the ultimate in zero-emissions driving, forget hydrogen and embrace air: Compressed-air cars are real, and the French company...

I happened past the San Francisco Kartell showroom getting an afternoon coffee today and saw a very serious sale in progress.

There was a time when earthenware was unappreciated: once the 80s hit the world, handcrafts—as a vestige of a musty, dusty...

Although it may be difficult to fit it in your pocket, and it certainly lacks the convenience of an iPhone or Blackberry, this...

The American house throughout the nation's history has represented grand concepts: success, strength of family unit, motivation...

The Places We Live is a new book of extraordinary photographs by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen, documenting the teeming...

A new show of stone vases at Japanese boutique, Tortoise General Store, will likely knock your socks off.

Today—Monday, October 13—is the final day Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls will be flowing into the East River.

As MoMA's “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling” comes to a close (on Oct.

The new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis includes two 30-foot-tall sculptures made of photocatalytic concrete.

Good things come in small packages, like Danish modernism in Dansk-emblazoned boxes.

Since the dawn of e-commerce, many businesses have been liberated from the steep costs of renting retail space and paying...

The pharmaceutical, industrial, institutional and educational: these areas have been mines as of late for industrial chic...

This weekend I met up with a friend who lives in Washington DC and was in San Francisco for a visit.

Remember those lazy days making Lego houses and hospitals, clicking everything into place and feeling that you'd really built...

It's been said that a person's first name ultimately defines them; and Cosmo is no exception.

Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers have advanced to the next round of the baseball playoffs, it's a good time to consider the...

If the presidential debates haven't satisfied your election appetite, the AIGA professional association for design offers a...

MUJI, the Japanese brand famous for being tastefully brandless, will soon open a retail shop in JetBlue's new Terminal 5 at New...

The 10 finalists in New York's CityRacks Design Competition have been announced—and more importantly, prototypes of their designs...

Maybe it's a response to the proliferation of concrete in the 90s, or a flight to the natural away from a world of plastics: but...

Who didn't want a tree house growing up? Well now you can either live vicariously through your kids or indulge in the greatest...

A blank journal is an exciting journal.

As part of their National Design Week festivities (Oct.

A patent on a house design: this is the heart of the controversy surrounding Hans Zwimpfer's Pile-Up Housing.

$1.4 million. This is the average sale price of an apartment in New York City in fall 2008.

Great Jobs clip (below) from 1993 on hiring Paul Rand (above) to solve his problem. Mock-turtleneck in full-effect.

Los Angeles is a diverse city filled with green space, urban space and all different kinds of people, incomes and tastes.

There's a magical nook on Williamsburg's Metropolitan Ave. sidewalk where the Graham St. L Train vent allows the underground...