IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC
Ever since Diller Scofido & Renfro unveiled their sexy new rehab of Lincoln Center, the place has been a magnet for surprising design: Wet’s frisky fountain, Fashion Week’s footwear fetishists, the bizarre s
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
Prep Schools Lead The Way On Sustainable Living A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game.
Updated Tue Nov 1, 2011
How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure.
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
What 9/11 Taught Us About Designing Skyscrapers A new, safer model of skyscraper rises from the site of the attack.
Updated Wed Sep 7, 2011
Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré Repurposes European Techniques For His Native Country African-born architect Francis Kéré gets big results by mixing a little mud with a lot of heart.
Updated Tue Jul 19, 2011
RISD Old Guard Clashes With Its Tweeting President John Maeda John Maeda's plans to digitize communication at the historically analog school have backfired.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
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For design that's both social and beautiful that blurs the lines between architecture and landscape. Snohetta's buildings are notable for their "architecture of engagement," in which the social experience of the structure is as important as its form.
Updated Mon Mar 21, 2011
"Inside Job" Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Hopes to Help Send Bankers to Jail "This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.
Updated Mon Feb 28, 2011
Kraft Store Kiosk Scans Your Face Then Knows What to Feed It [Video] When a shopper passes by the "Meal Planning Solution" kiosk, part of Intel's "Connected Store," Anonymous Video Analytics technology zooms in on his or her face and instantly determines his or her gender and age group to guess what products might exert some allure.
Updated Fri Jan 14, 2011
Intel's Virtual Footwear Wall for Adidas Turns Boutiques Into Shoe-topias [Video] Footwear fanatics will no longer have to trek to some massive metropolitan shoe shrine to ogle the latest products if Intel's dazzling virtual footwear wall catches on with retailers.
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
Campo Marzio's Artisan Stationery Comes to the U.S. Our intrepid correspondent falls in love in Rome, and seals the deal in New York.
Updated Thu Jan 6, 2011
Eco Specs: The Greenest Glasses on the Planet Growing up in Italy's "Silicon Valley of eyewear," Alessandro Lanaro had a dream of making a big splash in spectacles in America. Today his company, Modo, is making the most socially responsible eyeglasses on the planet.
Updated Fri Dec 10, 2010
Italian Furniture Designer Patricia Urquiola's Work Goes Beyond Just Furniture With a blend of artistry and commercial savvy, Patricia Urquiola enthralls tony Italian furniture makers—as well as BMW, H&M, and high-end hotel chains such as Mandarin Oriental. It’s a beautiful business.
Wed Sep 15, 2010
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Brings Fashion to New York's Lincoln Center Her big idea? Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled."
Wed Aug 11, 2010
Andre Kikoski's Gutsy Guggenheim Restaurant Design Wins James Beard Award
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 Restaurant Design.
Wed May 5, 2010
