Egg-spanding Architecture: dmvA's Unfolding Egg A crafty Belgian design studio works around pesky building codes with this egg-sperimental (sorry) mobile office-in-a-blob.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
It's Alive! Faulders Studio's Building Proposal Grows Its Own Facade Geotube is a proposal for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Spider in the Sky: Ryohei Koike and Jarod Poenisch's Web-Tastic Skyscraper Proposal Their concrete-and-carbon Nested Skyscraper is no place for arachnophobes.
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
Apple Store Cube Is More Popular Landmark Than Statue of Liberty: Cornell Report A Cornell study says the Cube came in at number 28 worldwide, and number 5 in New York City.
Posted Wed Mar 24, 2010
Ohio's New License Plate Is "Unique," "Different," Ugly The state's once-scrapped new plate is outselling its current model 3 to 1.
Posted Wed Mar 24, 2010
Boston's Ugliest Buildings Are -- Surprise! -- All Brutalist Robert Campbell asks Boston Globe readers what buildings they hate most, and it's bad news for concrete buffs.
Posted Tue Mar 23, 2010
MTA Scraps Plans for New Subway Pictograms [UPDATED] Mies Hora's 90-icon set get tossed in the face of a $750 million budget shortfall.
Posted Tue Mar 23, 2010
SFMOMA's Expansion Plans are Shockingly Safe After his dream for a museum in the Presidio went nowhere, Gap founder Don Fisher turned his 1,100-piece contemporary art collection over to SFMOMA. It'll make SFMOMA into an art-world force on the level of MOMA or the Tate Modern, and as such, it'll need its own flashy new box.
Posted Mon Mar 22, 2010
Paul Rudolph Houses Preserved...But Only in Photographs Chris Mottalini's photo project documents the brutalist master's houses before they are demolished.
Posted Mon Mar 22, 2010
The Long, Strange History of Prussian Blue Everyone's favorite color--from Cezanne to rhesus monkeys- started out as a chemistry experiment gone wrong, according to Joshua Cohen's history of the pigment.
Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010
Frank Gehry Mellows Out With Wood-Paneled Theater Design The notoriously metallic starchitect goes back to his roots with a cheap, plywood design for the Signature Theater Company. Don't worry--it still looks wild.
Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010
Starbucks Sponsors Coffee-Cup Redesign Contest Betacup asks designers to invent a recyclable cup for your morning joe.
Posted Tue Mar 16, 2010
"Citizen Architect": The Humble Origins of Socially-Responsible Design A new documentary profiles the late Samuel Mockbee, founder of Auburn University's Rural Studio--which taught students by building houses in rural Alabama.
Posted Tue Mar 16, 2010
Saving Colombia, One Building at a Time And expansion of Medellín's Museum of Modern Art brings the city's history of brilliant public spaces into its wealthier neighborhoods.
Posted Tue Mar 16, 2010
Almost Genius: Spokeless Bike Wheels A wave of spokeless bike designs (more renderings than reality) prompts one question: why?
Posted Mon Mar 15, 2010
Waiting for the Paris Metro? You Might Be in an Ikea Ad Ikea takes over Paris subway stations with life-sized living rooms.
Posted Mon Mar 15, 2010
Great Moments in Photoshop History: Happy 20th Anniversary! Complex Magazine rounds up their 50 favorite Photoshop moments in honor of the software's 20th birthday.
Posted Fri Mar 12, 2010
Google-Mapping Your Life: Which Way to Omelet-Town? Christoph Niemann's latest project is an atlas of daily life.
Posted Fri Mar 12, 2010
What If Your Postage Stamp Was the Letter--Or an Entire Book? UPDATE: USPS Is Cool Too! Rotterdam designer Richard Hutten produces a stamp-sized book for the Dutch postal service. UPDATE: Not to be outdone, the USPS releases Abstract Expressionism stamps!
Posted Thu Mar 11, 2010
