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What Comes After Kickstarter Fame? If You're Lucky, The MoMA Store
The museum store has become an unlikely champion of products that started out on Kickstarter. Here's why.When the Lumos helmet—a smart bike helmet with integrated turn signals and brake lights—launched...
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Demystifying HUD
It's the "meat and potatoes" of cities and towns. It's also deeply misunderstood.Like many large federal departments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is complex and...
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Architect Francis Kéré Is Bringing Burkina Faso To London
The African architect envisions a "micro cosmos" in London's Kensington Gardens.The arid landscape of Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, bears little resemblance to the manicured trees and lawns...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Wants Your Border Wall Designs--ASAP
The Department of Homeland Security wants to know how to design a wall in 10 days.Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico seemed like one of those outlandish campaign promises designed to curry favor...
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Three Little-Known Spanish Architects Win Architecture's Top Prize
RIP, starchitecture. And good riddance.Catalonian architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta, of RCR Arquitectes, are the winners of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The...
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Antimicrobial Products Are The Worst
In a white paper, the architecture firm Perkins+Will says antimicrobial building products should be banished.Earlier this week, the World Health Organization issued a warning that...
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Nixon, NASA, And How The Federal Government Got Design
In the 1970s, good design became federal policy.The federal government doesn't stray too far from a few familiar topics when it comes to its agenda: the economy, health care, national defense,...
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Please Stop Describing Buildings As "The Death Star"
Why do we depend on the same tired metaphor to describe ominous, foreboding, dysfunctional design?Last week, Google revealed updated renderings of its forthcoming campus. The BIG and Thomas Heatherwick...
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This Speaker Borrows Its Design From An Unlikely Source: Monkey Tails
Turn on, tune in, and hang out.Most of us likely listen to music from our headphones when we're on the go, but a new speaker by German designers for the Italian brand Palomar might convince you to...
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Surrealism Is Back
Thanks, Trump.A light that levitates like magic. A dizzying analog-digital hybrid clock. A mirror that looks like a gateway into another dimension. A prismatic, color-changing lamp. A gilded table...
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This $314 Necktie Is A Biotech Breakthrough
After years of research, the biotech startup Bolt Threads is debuting its lab-grown proteins in the real world.Spider silk is one of the design industry's biggest—and most elusive—material obsessions....
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Google's Newly Approved HQ Is The Perfect Metaphor For Silicon Valley
Smaller, less adventurous, and largely opaque.This week, Mountain View's city council unanimously approved a scaled-back design for Google's new campus. The 595,000-square-foot building, by Bjarke...
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Airbnb, Instagram, And The Rise Of The Optimized Cabin
Hudson Woods is a $25 million bet to suburbanize cabin life.A two-hour drive north of New York City, Hudson Woods is one of those idyllic vacation destinations that city slickers salivate over—its open...
View ArticleThe Arrivals’ Sleek Jackets Let You Wear Your Favorite Architecture
The Arrivals, a New York-based fashion brand, is reinventing outerwear by infusing it with the principles of modern architecture. With product names like Lautner, Ponti, and Kahn, it comes at no...
View ArticleThe Elusive Dream Of Affordable, Flat-Pack Furniture
We take a close look at three furniture startups that reveal the promises and perils of trying to disrupt an entrenched industry. We all want affordable, high-quality, easy-to-ship furniture. So why is...
View ArticleThe Small Startup That’s Helping Hundreds Of Cities Visualize The Future
The Bay Area tech startup Remix is helping hundreds of cities and regions transform how they plan. Public transportation is the lifeblood of cities. It enables all people–not just those who can afford...
View Article100 Artists Redesigned The Modern Office’s Most Obsolete Object
The humble paperweight died decades ago. Now, it’s enjoying an unexpected second life—as an art object. We’ve bid farewell to typewriters, rotary phones, and Rolodexes as casualties of the digital era....
View ArticleTodd Eberle Stares Into The Creative Soul Of The World’s Greatest...
Eberle is the latest recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography award. Todd Eberle has photographed the world’s most influential artists, designers, architects, and...
View ArticleThe NEA Just Lost One Of Its Biggest Design Champions
Jason Schupbach is leaving the National Endowment for the Arts for a position in academia. Jason Schupbach, the National Endowment for the Arts’ longtime director of design and creative placemaking...
View ArticleThere’s A New Must-Read Book For Frank Lloyd Wright Fans
An updated edition of Wright Sites guides architourists through 74 of the architect’s projects that are open to the public. This year, Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the greatest and most popular modern...
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