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Countdown To The Next Election With This Perpetual Calendar
T minus 650 days.Trump may have the White House, but the 2018 midterm elections are just 650 days away. Which is to say there's hope—even if it's slim—for progressive leadership to return to Congress....
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The Friar's Habit Gets A Streetwear-Inspired Overhaul
The Young Pope would approve.Regardless of where people fall on the scale of secular to devout, they're likely to agree on one thing: Religion is a polarizing force that elicits strong opinions.The...
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Redesigning The Mind-Numbing Employee Code Of Conduct--With GIFs
Playing by the rules is fun. Really.When your employer hired you, chances are HR handed over a code of conduct, told you to read it, and asked you to affirm that you do in fact understand the rules and...
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"Good Design Is A Basic Civil Right:" A Housing Project For Homeless Vets
Designed by Brooks +Scarpa, The Six offers housing and support services to one of the city's most vulnerable populations.With an estimated 43,000 people living in shelters or on the street, Los Angeles...
View ArticleTrump Is A Terrible Architecture Critic
"It's a beautiful residence, it's very elegant," he said of the White House.Being a crappy architecture critic is hardly Trump's most vile attribute, nor one of his most egregious offenses to the...
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Defunding The NEA Would Be Incredibly Stupid--Here's Why
The National Endowment for the Arts funds local community building, educational programs, job training, housing, and more.Arts funding has always been under assault, but the Trump Administration,...
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Welcome To Grope Mountain: An Extremely NSFW Climbing Wall
Experience designers Bompas & Parr created a climbing wall of grabbable breasts and penises.Repeat: It is never OK to grab anyone's genitals without their consent. However, the British experience...
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How To Design For Millennials, According To Ikea
Festival tents, anyone?Two new collections are hitting Ikea's shelves and online stores in February: the PS 2017 collection, a limited-edition series of stylish, adventurous pieces, and the Spridd line...
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The Grown-Up Nightclub Of The Future
In developing a refreshed home for London's famed Ministry of Sound, OMA also imagines a new way to make nightlife safer.Blame gentrification, uptight government, or the Instagram generation: The club...
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Ikea's Hackable Sofa Is Coming To The U.S.
The company's open-source Delaktig platform encourages people to hack away.Ikea's on a mission to think more like a software company, and it's going all in with the Delaktig sofa.The experimental...
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If Rainbow Brite Had An Office, It Would Look Like This
See the shining light.It's not an optical illusion—the glass inside the creative agency Canvas Worldwide's new Los Angeles office does change throughout the day. Like a visual mood ring, the iridescent...
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Google's Plan To Make Our Buildings Less Poisonous
Our buildings can make us sick. In Google, the movement for healthy architecture may have gotten its most powerful ally yet.READ MORE It's Time To Put Buildings On A DietCan Timber Skyscrapers Really...
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The Tiny House Fad Comes To Office Design
"The space investment is mobile, liquid, in a way; it can go places, it can be sold if necessary."Tiny houses have evolved from a twee trend into a viable design solution for combatting homelessness,...
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A Public Library That's Nicer Than The Fanciest Tech Offices
Books are scant, but there are plenty of reading nooks, comfy furniture, and a rooftop garden.Libraries are like the Madonnas of the architectural world—changing, evolving, and morphing with the times....
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The Breast Design Trend Of 2017? Boobs!
Boobies grab back.When artist and textile designer Cassie McGettigan was living in a commune in Bolinas—a coastal town and counterculture beacon about 20 miles north of San Francisco—nudity was welcome...
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Free Architecture School? It's Not As Crazy As It Sounds
Some schools are changing architectural education by eliminating tuition. Could it help make the profession more relevant and diverse?READ MORE How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality—And What...
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The Only Time Alternative Facts Are Acceptable: This Card Game
Appropriately, the person with the biggest hands draws first.From inventing alternative facts to bespoke numbers, the Trump administration is adept at spinning yarns composed of blatant lies,...
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Here's The Perfect Tiny Home For Riding Out The End Times
It's like Martha Stewart and Bear Grylls got together to design a tiny house.Earlier this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists adjusted the Doomsday Clock—a measure of the current potential for...
View ArticleAs HIV/AIDS Ravaged NYC, This Group Fought Back With Architecture
To understand how good housing can have a ripple effect across society, look no further than Housing Works.When the Keith D. Cylar Community Health Center, a 36-unit residential building and medical...
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This Hotel Asked Some Of The World's Top Architects To Design Rooms
You can sleep in rooms designed by Pritzker Prize winners like Peter Zumthor, Thom Mayne, and Tadao Ando.As archaeological fragments have shown, hot springs around the alpine town of Vals, Switzerland,...
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