Have you wondered why we linger in an Apple store, playing with shiny screens, but never set foot in a Sony Style store (which, incidentally, has its devices locked behind glass doors)? Why are one company’s stores a multi-billion dollar business while the other doesn’t even show up in their annual report?
If buildings had human doppelgangers, this one’s would be '90s-era Kate Moss, hands down. As ArchDaily reports, Ferrolan LAB’s four-story Family House in Barcelona is so freakishly thin, it manages to pack nearly 4,000 square feet into a sliver of a frame just 12 feet wide.
A look back at the last ten years in the design world reveals 14 moments where design changed the way we interacted with technology, culture, sustainability, and ourselves.