Farming Cuba: Havana Cityscape Havana's urban fabric features front yards, rear yards, balconies, rooftops, vacant lots, and public parks—all useful surfaces for growing urban food. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Farming Cuba: Greenhouse in Havana Using biopesticides, companion planting, pest-resistant crops, and mesh greenhouses to protect young plants, Cuba has ushered in ‘the largest conversion from conventional agriculture to organic or semi-organic farming that the world has ever known.’ Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Preservation Props Since the house is in a historic district, Beebe and Skidmore’s interventions were constrained by local guidelines, including a stipulation that the walls of the addition couldn’t line up with the walls of the existing house. They bumped the walls in by five feet on either side and painted the addition, clad in siding from Capital Lumber, a color complementary to the original building’s deep, bright blue. “A guy from Boise’s preservation office came by and said, ‘This is a perfect example of how we’d like people to build additions,’” says Dana. “We were pretty proud of that.” beebeskidmore.com capital-lumber.com

An outdoor version of one of Foscarini’s best sellers, the Havana Outdoor is ideal for lining paths. $588

Farming Cuba: Carrot Harvest At the Vivero Alamar organopónico in Havana, growers harvest carrots that have been grown without pesticides or herbicides, instead using compost tea, mushroom rhizomes, artisanal pest control products, and permaculture strategies such as intercropping. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Farming Cuba: Organipónico 3 A co-operative farmer sows seeds using a repurposed water bottle. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Farming Cuba: Biopesticide Expert This biopesticide expert, working at a cooperative farm in Havana, combats pests with artisanal pesticides made on site. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Farming Cuba: Organipónico 5 Signage at an urban farm in Havana. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

McMinn and Janzen's kitchen opens onto a double-height living and dining area.

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With serious depth, the Havana Sleeper is ideal for afternoon naps, so imagine how comfortable it’d be when fully reclined. As a bonus, there’s a sizable storage compartment in the back, so you can keep extra sheets and a quilt at hand.

"Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone." While Fuller’s ultimate goal was audacious, the idea of a real-time simulation in the ‘60s, accessible to before widespread access to computing, was just somewhat less ambitious. Fuller’s game—so-called to be accessible to everyone—was a further expansion of his Spaceship Earth philosophy, and is currently being utilized as a model by the O.S. Earth Institute. (Pictured: Bucky's Time cover from 1964.)

While the house is invisible from the main street, a short five-minute walk connects the residents to the town center and every community amenity.

Farming Cuba: Oxen Working the Land Oxen replaced tractors in the Special Period, and remain common in Havana today. This team is working at the Vivero Alamar organopónico in Havana. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Farming Cuba: Nelson, a Cuban Farmer This rooftop grower employs permaculture techniques to support 40 guinea pigs, 6 chickens, two turkeys, and over a hundred rabbits on a 68m2 rooftop. He sells this meat to area restaurants and markets, which then provide him with the food scraps he uses to feed the animals. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

Francesco and Mafalda’s bedroom is open and playful with only a bit of Algue by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec guarding the stairs. The lamp was designed by Francesco himself and the decal on the wall is from My Vinilo.

On the lower roof, cedar decking and flower beds define one of several outdoor gardening spaces. Part of her ongoing research into the livability of cities, Fitzgerald aimed to create landscaped areas that were “aesthetic, aromatic, educational, and productive.” The deck is bordered by an expanded aluminum mesh railing and black metal corrugated panels.

The sofa is from Cantoni, the rug is from Restoration Hardware, and the Tolomeo floor lamp is by Michele De Lucchi for Artemide. The large windows in the background and throughout the house are from Western Window Systems.

A basic box that’s as tall as it is wide (28 feet) and 16 feet long, this Portland, Oregon house consists of rooms stacked vertically: an unfinished basement on the bottom, a kitchen-living area and a bathroom in the middle, and a bedroom on top, with the stairwell hinged onto the front of the home. The only interior doors are those to the bathroom, basement, and root cellar, leaving the rest of the space open and unfettered. At just 704 square feet, Katherine Bovee and Matt Kirkpatrick's home is a great lesson in making the most out of every inch. Click here to see the interior.

It’s fitting that a man often called one of Finland’s greatest architects would cap his most successful decade of work with a structure that celebrated his country’s contributions to the world. Within the compact, four-story structure, photos of landscapes, people and products looked out over curvaceous, wood-slatted walls, a flowchart of Finnish industry capped off by airplane propellers spinning like fans from the ceiling.

B&B Italia Outdoor’s Canasta sofa, by Patricia Urquiola, shares a shady patch in the ground-floor Carnegie Hill garden with three ginkgo biloba trees, an existing fountain with an Italian marble spout designed by Thomas Woltz, and bluestone pavers. The terrace is filled with woodland greenery: Leucothoe, ostrich ferns, and lady ferns.

The perennial plants on the green wall were plotted out as a piece of verdant abstract art. Edibles, like strawberry, thyme, and rosemary, are planted within children’s reach.

A sofa from Sutherland’s Poolside collection is covered in fabric from Perennials; the illuminated side tables are by Porcuatro for Tango Lighting. The screens are constructed from FSC-certified teak.

Celebrating the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1939 and 1964 World Fairs, the New York Transit Museum will share postcards, photos, ephemera, and souvenirs that show how transportation was a symbol for modern American life and technology.

The designers of the CST-01 call it the "thinnest watch in the world." It's often tricky to trade in absolutes, but anyone who handled a prototype on the CES show floor this week would be hard-pressed to prove them wrong. Dave Vondle and Jerry O'Leary, who call their Chicago-based company Central Standard Timing, say the watch's paper-thin battery charges in 10 minutes and powers the device for a month before it needs to be plugged in again. The watch display is rendered in E Ink, commonly used in e-readers. Photo courtesy of Central Standard Timing.

A specially designed unit for containing and preserving plants is next to the oven unit, which is outfitted with appliances from Gaggenau. Other stand-alone units include a unit made specifically for storing and grinding grain. As the design team explains it: “Up to six different sorts of grain can be stored in bags and can be fed into a grain mill via a funnel using a simple dosing mechanism. The grain mill is designed as a fitted unit, thus fulfilling the demands of modern design; it also has a integrated weighing scales the simplify the dosage."

The Wire Potato Baskets are inspired by old potato farming baskets, matching the silhouette, sturdiness, and functional handles. The baskets are available in several colors, adding personality to the container. Although originally intended for transporting potatoes, these storage baskets can be used for holding throw blankets in a living room, magazines in an entryway or office, toys in a playroom, or even laundry.

@myurbanstory showcased city map–inspired ornaments and wall clocks.

The seventh-floor terrace, or “sky meadow,” is at the very top of the town house.

Woltz describes the garden as a vertical progression up the six-story home: “You’re threading in and out of the building, so it’s a delightfully blurred experience, from garden to architecture and back.”

“Shophouses brought back memories of our childhoods, of open back doors and neighbors and relatives wandering in and out of the kitchen and cooking and eating and coming and going whether you liked it or not.”—Yang Yeo

Plants found in the surrounding landscape were used to obscure the lines between designed and natural worlds.

11+ World Desk Clock designed by Yeongkyu Yoo for Leibal, $49 at store.dwell.com This cylindrical desk clock is inscribed with names of different international cities, telling the time in each. All 24 time zones can be displayed, thanks to a distinctive rolling mechanism.

Student's Pavilion Plan Silva began researching, gradually building a community around those with experience and knowledge of the Pavilion. He spoke to a couple in Cleveland that managed a roller rink that once was located on-site, the members of the New York State Pavilion Paint Project, working to restore the structure, and found out about the 1969 concert series, when bands such as The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Santana played under the Tent of Tomorrow. He even made the Pavilion part of his teaching curriculum—the middle school educator has his eighth graders design alternative uses for the pavilion in 2012.

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