If you were in the market for an introduction to the New Urbanism -- what is it for? what is it against? what is it about, really? -- your choices on the opening day of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU 18) were either a ...READ»
Key business lessons can come from unlikely places. One man found them by spending six years on a bench in his back yard.
Michael O'Malley, Ph.D. says that beehives are the "original sustainable enterprises" that go back millennia, ...READ»
Highly regarded world-wide as an architectural innovator, the legendary Paolo Soleri established the Cosanti Foundation in Paradise Valley, Arizona in 1956. Since that time, Cosanti has been the headquarters for this nonprofit ...READ»
Andre Kikoski, who was brave enough to take on the challenge of designing a restaurant within Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece museum, the Guggenheim, was just named the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Outstanding ...READ»
Nowness.com, a digital magazine created by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, wants to teach you how to live a life of luxury. Relax. The site, at least, is free.
In a time when luxury sales are not exactly on the up and up, ...READ»
Recession? What recession? Some brave restaurateurs are defying the economic gloom and doom and opening new places. We take a look at the design behind a select few. First up, The Wright, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.READ»
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»
Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ»
While he didn't know it at the time, Graham Button hit a significant career turning point the day that Grey Worldwide won the Frontier Airlines account. In the course of working with the airline, Button, the ad agency's creative ...READ»
Think you have what it takes to design an electricity, gas, and water-free shelter that blends into the natural environment? Then enter the Design It:Shelter competition. The competition, held by Google Sketchup and the Guggenheim ...READ»
Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a path-breaking seller of modern, eco-friendly pre-fab homes, is folding due to the anemic housing market and the credit crisis at large.
Kaufmann's firm became synonymous with the contemporary ...READ»
The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ»
Affordable, modern architecture is a white whale. Which is where Hometta comes in. The site, which goes live next month, will offer modern house plans designed by 20 up-and-coming contemporary architects. The plans will range ...READ»
New York's new program for encouraging better public architecture has just born fruit, in a new community center designed by George Ranalli. As the Wall Street Journal's Ada Louise Huxtable writes:
...the Saratoga Avenue ...READ»
Barnhart, Inc. announces the completion of the new $51 million state-of-the-art College of Education. The facility is the largest and most technologically advanced building on the CSUSB campus.READ»
Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.READ»
