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Will Architecture Firm Leaders Ever Budge Against Unionizing Employees?
Will Architecture Firm Leaders Ever Budge Against Unionizing Employees?
A recent win for workers stateside and a high profile protest abroad are drawing eyes to the particular tensions of organizing in the industry.
By Anjulie Rao
The Divisive Plan to Build Luxury Prefabs on Burned Coastal Malibu Lots
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A Fiber-Cement Structure Forms the Interiors of This 19th-Century Czech Cottage
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The King of Købenstyle Cookware Just Got a New Owner
Food52 sold Dansk to Form Portfolios, a company that produces archival designs. Here’s what it plans to do with the legendary brand.
Seating, Shelving, and Spatial Definition—a Blue Box Does It All at This Refreshed Berlin Flat
Its owners knocked down walls and installed a central multipurpose core around which life now revolves.
“That Is a Number One F U”: A Conversation With the Creators of HBO’s “Neighbors” Docuseries
The directors of a new show about real-life residential conflicts discuss the very American obsession with property at the heart of each episode.
Richard Neutra’s Sale House Is On the Market for $5.3M
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From the Archive: A Dilapidated Garage Down a Hill Became a Playful Retreat for Kids
Architect Cary Bernstein cleared out the spiders, carved out some extra square footage, and ensured there’d be ample storage space for toys and art supplies.
New York’s Best Furniture Show Right Now Is in a Clothing Store
Vintage platform Rarify amassed pieces from one of the most influential—and unknown—makers of midcentury office furniture. And some of it is shoppable.
Budget Breakdown: Their Oakland Bungalow Ran Out of Bedrooms, So They Built a Basement Suite
“I wanted it to feel like you’re coming out of the earth,” architect Sky Lanigan says of the $522K renovation. “You rise up into this really airy space.”

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