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Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation has been named the winner of the 2015 MoMA/PS1 Young Ar chitects Program (YAP) in New York. Selected from five finalists, Jaque and his team designed a “movable artifact” called COSMO. The temporary, outdoor installation will occupy the courtyard at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, during the summer music…
LG Chem, the chemical branch of the South-Korean tech conglomerate, has just made two major breakthr oughs in OLED technology: They’ve begun mass-producing the world’s largest super-slim OLED panel, .88 millimeters (.03 inches) thick with a surface of 320-by-320 millimeters (12.5-by-12.5 inches), and selling engineering samples of a new super-flexible plastic OLED panel, perhaps the bendiest…
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Flying will never be the same again: SkyMall, the off-the-wall in-flight shopping catalog of things you don’t need, has filed for bankruptcy. It was the staple of long flights where you could find the wackiest products, like the Solafeet Foot Tanner or Hovertrax, a pair of Segway roller blades that you didn’t need, but you…
An IKEA video game, huh? Initial reviews say its more frustrating than IKEA IRL, with the potential to make you break down or bring your relationships to ruin — just like assembling the real thing. I wanted a piece of it. My editor advised me to spend a significant amount of time with it for…
Twice every year, fashion houses and ateliers reinvent themselves for the runway. With traditional s hows largely appropriated by the mainstream — see Zoolander — contemporary designers are expected to curate a novel experience that not only debuts the latest styles of that season but also offers spectacle and context through set design. Paris Fashion Week…
It’s a damn shame that the precipitation that punished NYC yesterday is of the slushy, truly m isery-inducing variety — because somehow last week’s underwhelming dusting somehow warrants a city-wide snow day but we find ourselves trudging through a city covered in slick, gray nastiness. Still, we can’t help but dream of a proper winter wonderland…
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is pleased to announce the 14 recipients of the 2015 Youn g Architect Award. AIA defines “young” in reference to years in practice rather than the age of the individual — the award can go to any AIA member who has been licensed for 10 years or less, regardless of…
The rapid urbanization and modernization of China is best seen in this image of Shanghai, where the agricultural and fishing village, across the river from the historic city center, has been transformed into one of the world’s most advanced metropolises in just a couple of decades. The shock to the system that comes along with…