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The grand opening of the new California Academy of Sciences, one of the year’s most anticipated events, is taking place this...

You read Dwell. You like to think that you have a good eye for design. But how good is your eye really?

Goldsmiths' postgraduate design community have a show at The Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery, on Brick Lane as part of the...

My wife "dragged" me to our local flea market spot today.

There are these two brothers with last name Jacobs.

Notebooks may be grabbing all the headlines, but the industry’s concurrent obsession with diminutive desktop PCs continues...

Electrolux recently unveiled the finalists in their design lab competition.

The Greenhaus is a design collective of British designers whose work revolves around concepts of sustainability.

Only slightly less annoying than the self-satisfied American who, upon visiting Europe, complains that everything is better back...

Who says you can't fight City Hall? In my Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake, a 1936 Streamline Moderne gas station was...

There seems to be a crockery revival—Tent has a whole host of young designers showing ceramic work of one kind or another.

San Francisco International has just unveiled plans for the redesign of domestic Terminal Two, an impressive economic endeavor...

More ceramics from Tent, in the form of everyday, disposable objects cast in porcelain.

One of the most surprising things at Tent—one of the LDF shows—is the 'Lazy Chair' by Freshwest Design.

Norwegian modernist Sverre Fehn was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1997, and what was that eminent architect’s first post-Pritzker...

It's strange. I've never actually met someone who owns a digital picture frame.

Upside-down houses have been on my mind lately.

Markus Linnenbrick makes tables by drilling in acrylic.

Three months ago, this was the site of Leo Marmol's new prefabbed residence in Venice.

Opening tonight is From Now to Eternity, a show focusing on plastics with work by a collection of designers, including FAT,...

Homes built underground (aka Earth Sheltered Homes) are starting to look pretty enticing, what with the state of the economy and...

A wall of cinderblock, tiny windows, layers of dust and a steel door: for some, this is a typical Manhattan apartment.

Norway’s Sognefjord is the longest in the world, stretching some 200 kilometers into the country from the North Atlantic.

I've been in Norway for the last week, and though I've seen all sorts of top drawer design, from the clever houses by Jarmund...

The London Design Festival party last night was full of hedge-funders seeking free drinks and nibbles.

Leave it to the French to have fun with something extraordinarily mundane.

As lighting designer Gwen Carlton puts it on her website, her aesthetic is Grimm's Fairy Tales set in 1930s Paris–though nothing...

Two new designs from Cardiff-based Timothy Ben Furniture turn the basic geometry of shapes into fully customizable and functional...

No matter how hard I try to live a life that's clutter free, it seems there's not really a way to eliminate the need for a place...

What is a neighborhood but an amalgam of the people who live therein? New York City certainly knows the drill, but so does...

Fancy waterfalls, grassy parks, and picnicking families have been replacing concrete, refuse, and pier sheds at the bottom end of...

"Most architecture in any age is crap, and today’s crap isn’t as bad as yesterday’s." That's a juicy pull-quote from "The Glass...

The 2010 car model year (which starts in calendar year 2009) promises to be an exciting one, with the debut of a revamped Toyota...

It’s known around the world as the “Artichoke” but in Denmark, where it originated, Poul Henningsen’s iconic lighting fixture is...

New York has had a way of loudly excluding or being excluded by deserving people.