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House

A House that Takes Outside/Inside to the Extreme

California architects of the 1970s were a big force in popularizing the idea of indoor/outdoor living, with houses that featured huge patios and glass-walled living rooms. But a new villa in Germany pushes the idea to its logical ...READ»

london design festival

Best of Show: The London Design Festival

For design, fall is the season of ideas.The Milan Furniture Fair, held every April, is essentially an organ of the Italian furniture industry. Walking the fairgrounds on the city outskirts, one gets the sense that a thousand suits are ...READ»

Disaster

Designing for Disaster

We live in an age lashed by natural disasters. Katrina obviously looms in the American mind, but the Sichuan Earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami have all imprinted themselves on an entire generation, worldwide. What could we ...READ»

RCO

Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at the Milan Furniture Fair

These are nervous times for the companies showing off their wares at the sprawling Milan Furniture Fair. At the same time, a showcase for luxurious goods is as good a place as any to see how the prevailing grey mood is translating ...READ»

Alsop

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

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

BrazilMuseum

Architectural Hottie Coming to World's Sexiest Beach

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins a high-profile competition to design a museum on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.READ»

Architecture and Design's New Hot Spots: Hong Kong and Shenzhen
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Architecture and Design's New Hot Spots: Hong Kong and Shenzhen

If some of architecture and design's biggest names seemed conspicuously absent from this month’s Art Basel Miami Beach--that annual, must-attend conclave for the glitzy-arty set--it was because they were halfway around the world in the adjacent Chinese cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.READ»