Topic: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach

Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?READ»

• Seeing Double: Is It DWR or Someone Else?

Hideous Chic: The World's Ugliest Buildings

Travel & Leisure finds 15 of the ugliest buildings in the world. What on earth were these architects thinking?READ»

Doing More With Less: Using the Down Economy as a Design Brief

Working with constraints is something that many companies need now more than ever.READ»

• Dan Harden's Whipping Post blog

Dictator Chic: BIG Wins Competition to Build National Library of Kazakhstan

BIG beat out Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid in a competition to architect the National Library of Kazakhstan--which happens to be a notoriously corrupt regime. Should we care?READ»

The Top Ten Worst Green Brand Names

They may be good for the planet, but these ten product names are just plain bad.READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

Which architects have the most unusual, influential visions for the field?READ»

Do You Obey Design Rules?

A new book upholds—and subverts—51 common catchphrases for design.READ»

Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?

Quick: Which state has the boldest architecture? Ohio didn't roll of your tongue, did it? But Bowling Green State University, near Toledo, just broke ground on a new building by Snøhetta. And that's on top of a slew of other ...READ»

Snøhetta Wins Europe's Most Prestigious Architecture Prize

The European Union just announced the winner of the biannual Mies van der Rohe architecture prize, and it goes to Snøhetta for its work on the Oslo Opera House. They take home an $80,000 prize--a considerable haul, in the ...READ»

Improving the Everyday: 8 Useful Objects that Need Fixing

Casting a critical eye on the commonplace, a cast of influential design figures selects items in need of work.READ»

Carl Verdickt's Greenhouse Grows On Us

Modern architecture is no stranger to the greenhouse effect--the heat trapping ability of glass is what has often rendered so many modernist house by Mies van der Rohe and others extraodinariy expensive to cool. But this ...READ»

50,000 Year Old Table and More from a Cutting-Edge Furniture Fair

This past weekend, one of the world's best contemporary-furniture fairs wrapped up. IMM-Cologne isn't the biggest, but it always hosts a sizable chunk of the world's best designers. Here are the highlights:READ»

Chicago is the Creative Capital of ohe Universe. Discuss.

Skyscrapers, green roofs, and house music -- a very American metropolis. READ»

Chicago is the Creative Capital of the World. Discuss.

The city's elite talk about why the city is fast.READ»

Designing a Classroom That Works

Adrian Caddy Adrian Caddy is the creative director of Imagination, a multidisciplinary design company with offices in London, New York, and Hong Kong. Wrote about: Designing a Classroom That Works Is learning: Caddy is building a ...READ»

Reinventing the Reel

The phrase "interactive advertising" is everywhere. Bob Greenberg actually makes it.READ»

Hot Seat

Room Board built its business as carefully as it creates furniture. Now it's moving in on the competition--and taking a place at the table.READ»

The Man Who Loved Chairs

Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ»