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Kicking off tomorrow, this annual celebration of contemporary design will once again take over a num ber of venues in London with more than 400 events ranging from talks to fairs such as the massive international furnishings trade show 100% Design. But, it just wouldn’t be a true London Design Festival experience without a visit to…
“Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight” opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Restrictions have challenged architects to come up with innovative home designs that maximize floor area over a small site
Modern Buddhist temples and spaces are designed with radically different styles that express the dif ferent branches of the religion.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is an annual design contest celebrating environmentally conscious innovation in architecture and engineering. The group’s tagline, “Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful,” sums up the ethos of the contest nicely. While the entries might only be concept pieces, their visual ingenuity enables us to envision a world untethered from wasteful practices.…
“In the Spanish language the word Husos has at least three different meanings,” Diego Barajas and Ca milo García of Madrid-based practice Husos Architects explain of their namesake. “One is time zones. It also means a spindle, a tool used in weaving … particularly beautiful in its material delicacy, traditionally linked to domestic life. And phonetically,…
This collection of overhanging homes features an international smattering of dwelling places which a ttempt to defy gravity and bring their inhabitants face to face with the surrounding landscape.
Considered the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, Lux eHome at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart will host the Chicago Design Summit. This residential design summit — the Midwest’s largest — will showcase 31 innovative programs, CEU seminars and events featuring industry luminaries, 11 strategic media partners and over a dozen notable editors,…
Happy 79th birthday, Renzo Piano! The Pritzker Prize–winning architect first gained global recogniti on in his mid-30s with the design of the Centre Pompidou, and decades later, he is still garnering our attention. While some may argue that Piano lacks a certain “signature” style that many of his illustrious peers possess, the Italian architect continues to…