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“The unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence,” wrote Italo Calvino in his ma sterpiece Invisible Cities. Beyond designing the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Paris and the Columbia University Campus Plan in New York City, architect Renzo Piano has spent last year looking for fragments of happy cities around Italian suburbs…
Wearable cameras and point-of-view videos have opened our eyes to all sorts of new angles of viewing , including an eagle-eye view of the French Alps as it soars down a valley, all sorts of extreme sports videos that make your heart skip a beat, what sculptures in museums see, and even the first Google Glass…
A small organic brewing operating in St. Paul, Minn., needed a unique architectural solution.
With the Super Bowl Sunday just two days away, football fans are certainly looking forward to this w eekend, whether or not they’re fans of the Seahawks or Patriots. You can find nearly any product emblazoned with your team’s logo — it is even possible to buy officially licensed, Pantone-perfect NFL paint from Glidden. The options…
Minimal USA was the 2014 Popular Choice Award winner in the Products+Kitchen category with the Minim al - M3 collection. This custom-made kitchen hardware is built to last with stainless steel structures and aluminum doors and drawers.
News flash: Houses on the numerous Mulholland Drives throughout the United States are worth 235 perc ent more than the national average. Meanwhile, houses on the literally thousands of Main Streets list for 58 percent less. We still wouldn’t move in. Despite the often random nature by which streets get their names, there seems to be…
Sometimes architects just need to do rad shit — and not only when they’re asked. Designed by F amily and PlayLab, the +POOL, a floating, water-filtering pool in the East River, fits in this category of awesome stuff no on asked for, and they are taking their message to the streets. “Doing Something Big When No…
A collection of saunas from around the world.
C.T. ARCHITECTS was the 2014 Popular Choice winner and the Jury Award winner in the Architecture+Agi ng category with Loft MM. This storage-space-turned-micro-loft was created with custom-made furniture and design solutions that subtly comply with Belgian disability codes.