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Looking to brighten up your lighting scheme? Our product catalog is a one-stop shop for all variety of lighting options — from lifelike virtual skylights to sculptural floor lamps made from reclaimed wood. We’ve picked only a handful of our favorites from the database of thousands of products, which are also searchable by projects that…
As the baby boomers grow older, they increasingly need places to do so with grace. Sometimes this is a design solution that converts a home so the elderly can “age-in-place,” but often it means relocating to an assisted-living facility or nursing home. This expanding architectural field is open to many design innovations, from technologies and…
The intense heat, different levels of local construction knowledge and the availability of materials all factor into designs.
Due to quirk of the 2015 calendar, this year sees the unusual occurrence of Easter overlapping with Passover. For those of you who are celebrating the freedom meal of Passover at home, we have gathered a collection of synagogues that express more chutzpah in channeling an emotional story than your average architecture. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregationby…
Architects are frequently accused of living life with their head in the clouds, preoccupied with fan tastical worlds disconnected from reality. Maybe so, but when those worlds are as beautifully illustrated as those in Nir Levie’s “Outskirts Of Vision”, who could blame us? The graphic artist’s epic 220-page novel chronicles young architect Ben’s adventures in a…
Seven well-designed vineyards to stimulate your architectural palette.
In what has become a grand tradition for, the internet turns into a minefield of fake news à la The Onion on April 1st, a.k.a. April Fools’ Day. Here are some of our favorite design-related stories from online publications doing their best one-day Onion impression, complete with hilariously questionable Photoshopping. Image via Hyperallergic (courtesy the…
Google is known for their playful April Fool’s Day pranks and hoaxes. Their first, MentalPlex, was an actual hoax. In 2000, when search engines were still in their formative stages, they tricked people into thinking about what they wanted to search for, and then delivered humorous error messages, like “Error 001: Weak or no signal…
Draw your battle lines, don your skinny jeans, arm yourself with your craft brew of choice — coffee, beer, or kombucha — and charge: this is “Settlers of Brooklyn,” the deliciously knowing satirical board game in which rapid gentrification is the key to social domination in New York City. Check out the provocative promo video…