How Alexander Girard’s Folk Art Obsession Changed The Course Of Modernism
“He was collecting vernacular and designing modern,” explains curator Monica Obniski. An amateur collector might own a handful of pieces, a hobbyist a few dozen, and a serious collector a few hundred....
View ArticleWatch Atlanta’s Robo-Stadium In Action For The First Time
The clench is real. When the Atlanta Falcons decided to move into a new stadium, they wanted the architecture to be so dynamic that it would “provide a game-day spectacle that can’t be experienced at...
View ArticleMuji’s New Flagship Is The Big-Box Store We Need
The lifestyle brand’s one-stop shop in Tokyo sells everything from food to houses. At the Japanese lifestyle brand Muji’s Tokyo flagship, which reopened on July 28 after a renovation, shoppers have...
View ArticleHow Dinner Is Served Across The U.S.
TV trays, pizza boxes, and hungry stares: The archetype of the American family having dinner together is dead. Photographer Lois Bielefeld has made a habit of inviting herself over to strangers’ homes...
View ArticleHow Hotelier Ian Schrager Made A Luxury Hotel For Budget Travelers
Without resorting to Allen-key decor. “Luxury is a state of mind: It’s how [something] makes you feel,” says Ian Schrager, the nightlife impresario turned hotelier, who is frequently credited (often by...
View ArticleCan’t Stand Your Obnoxiously Noisy Office? 4 Architects Share Their...
“When [I] asked where a young client goes for privacy, the response was ‘Starbucks,’ which is not unique.” With the rise of the open office has come the rise of what I’ll call the open office symphony:...
View ArticleYour State’s Most Popular Vacation Destination Isn’t What You Think
Pack your bags…for Macedonia? Many of us dream of vacations to far-off lands. But residents in some U.S. states travel a little farther than others.Read Full Story
View ArticleGentrifying Cities Are Trying To Save The Art That Made Them Cool
Cities are resorting to unusual programs–like appointing a “night mayor”–to save their artistic souls. Gentrification is spurring affordability crises in cities around the world. Amongst the first...
View ArticleThe Secret Life Of Parks
Your city has a mute button, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Just ask the landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Between sirens, horns, speeding cars, and garbage trucks, the sounds...
View ArticleThe Artists Making Sound You Can Touch
Spatial audio isn’t new, but Dave & Gabe think it’s the next wave of more immersive experience design. I’m sitting on a sofa in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, studio, surrounded by 39 speakers. Some are...
View ArticleDesigners: Charlottesville Needs Your Help Making The City More Equal
The Virginia city is soliciting plans to redesign the downtown parks where white supremacists recently held violent rallies. Deep-rooted tensions surrounding race and American history erupted into...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into The Visionary Brain Of Design Hero Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass, father of Memphis, drew his autobiography in a sketchbook–and it’s a trip. Italy has no shortage of design legends, but one in particular has been hogging the spotlight recently:...
View ArticleThis Surreal Installation Is Like Stepping Into A Capitalist Nightmare
Artist Alex Da Corte’s Slow Graffiti explores the pursuit of perfection through materialism. We usually remember a dream in bits and pieces: an image here, a feeling there, a sense of disorientation....
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Have Your Anti-Trump Art Go Mega-Viral
“When something really pisses me off, I get a little extra inspired,” Austin-based artist Mike Mitchell says. In the wake of the Charlottesville demonstrations, many calls to impeach President Trump...
View ArticleThe Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Architects Are Hiding Apartments In Air Ducts
Don’t worry, no one’s living in it. The statement installation highlights the need for new policy that responds to the housing shortage. The urban housing crisis has become so dire that architects are...
View ArticleHey, Remember When Trump Destroyed Precious Art History?
The president describes the removal of Confederate monuments as a loss of beauty and history, but it’s worth remembering his own run-in with historic preservation. This week, President Trump curried...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s Entire Committee On The Arts And The Humanities Just...
The members, including architect Thom Mayne and painter Chuck Close, submitted their letter of resignation to Trump–and implored him to do the same. After President Trump blamed “both sides” for a...
View ArticleUniqlo Is Rethinking Japanese Work Culture–Through Office Design
Allied Works Architecture and Fast Retailing think Western work spaces could be big in Japan. Can design help change the nation’s hierarchical work culture? Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the...
View ArticleThe Remarkable Journeys Migrating Animals Take Each Year, Visualized
Animals are the true global citizens. Biology 101 tells us that animals head south for the winter and north for the summer, but the nuances and scale of that migration remain somewhat obscure. Two new...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Launch Flower Bouquets Into Space
Nineteen miles above the surface of the Earth, Azuma Makoto is making art. Flowers are fragile objects that only last a few days once they’re cut. To Tokyo-based botanical artist Azuma Makoto, the...
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