Miscellaneous
Generations of girls have grown up playing with Barbie--with her tiny waist and unrealistically shaped feet. Finally, someone has asked the question: what if Barbie dolls looked more like the [...] Read »
TEX-FAB. Austin, TX. February 21, 2014.
Moderation about Material Logic, The new practice, Craft, etc. with Alvin Huang and Andrew Kudless. Read »
Image via Shutterstock Great news animal lovers--a new federal bill introduced last week could finally put an end to cruel cosmetics testing on animals in the United States. Endorsed by The Humane [...] Read »
&.childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it [...] Read »
Modern Fireplace Designs Fireplaces are one of the most commonly outdated features within a home. Sometimes a home that has been renovated, remodeled, or redecorated will still have the same [...] Read »
You know those plastic bracelets people wear to show their support for cancer research and the like? Well now a new version has the potential to save lives in a different way. Health and environmental [...] Read »
What are your aspirations for the afterlife? These days there are more options than just traditional burial or cremation. We've explored many different options for green burial, like planters [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
The 77 individuals who lost their lives during the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway will be commemorated by this competition-winning intervention by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to sever a strip [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Originally published by Metropolis Magazine as Big Data, Big Questions , this article by Alex Marshall examines what is arguably the most important aspect of smart city design: not how they [...] Read »
For the last decade, OMA / AMO have collaborated with Prada to design their conceptually daring catwalks. We have images of the latest, designed for Milan's Fashion Week, just after the break. [...] Read »
From the architect. The Cube, a sixteen meter tall painted steel and rope installation designed for the 2013 Beijing Biennale by the Oyler Wu Collaborative& , challenges the volumetric perception [...] Read »
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Following the completion of Jean Nouvel's plant-filled hotel in Barcelona and another in Berlin described by the designers as an "urban jungle" , we've compiled a list of unique hotels we'd [...] Read »
In honor of International Womens Day, MASS Design Group has released the latest in their video series “Beyond the Building,” a visual exploration of the ways architecture impacts lives [...] Read »
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Following the news last year that five teams had been shortlisted to redesign and reimagine the grounds of Londons iconic Natural History Museum (NHM), five anonymous concept images have been [...] Read »
A house in Singapore featuring a cantilevered concrete room was popular last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together staggering cantilevered buildings, walkways and [...] Read »
In a public interview, director Mary McGuckian speaks with Shane OToole of DoCoMoMo Ireland about her soon-to-be-released film, The Price of Desire,& a biopic about the influential Irish [...] Read »
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