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From Frank Gehry to Thomas Heatherwick, listen to some of the profession's brightest minds as they w alk the TED stage.

If there was a rite of passage for product designers, it would be the act of creating a chair. Wilso nart, the Temple, Texas–based manufacturer of decorative engineered surfaces, has helped young talents cross this professional threshold with its annual Wilsonart Challenges Student Chair Design Competition. Now in its 12th year, it is the longest-running student…

‘Tiny Revolutions’ explores initiatives in grassroots architecture around the globe, addressing issu es of affordable, sustainable and accessible construction techniques and design solutions for developing communities. Winners of the 2016 Emerging Voices program hosted by the Architectural League, César Guerrero and Ana Cecilia Garza of S-AR were recently in New York City to talk about their…

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This year alone, Detroit has become the (contentious) focus of the US pavilion at the Venice Biennal e, the first American city to be named a UNESCO City of Designas well as the host of this year’s IdeasCity conference with the New Museum. As if the Motor City did not already offer enough excuses to explore,…

How often do architects redesign a kitchen layout because the refrigerator door continues to bump in to other elements, opens the wrong way, or sticks out past the line of the counter? Not only are these bulky appliances sometimes a pain to integrate into the design of a kitchen, but they also localize all food and…

Yesterday we reported on some of the highlights from Coverings 2016, focusing on the Italian conting ent at the show. Today we take a look at the headliners from two other major players in tile production: North America and Spain. Natucer CrossvilleNewer photography of the moon’s surface, as well as images captured from the Mars Exploration…

Nathaniel Berman is founder of housely, a design and real estate blog tracking trends in domestic ar chitecture. Here, he explores the compact living trend and finds ingenious solutions for every personality type. With housing and rental prices rising, the days of finding an affordable apartment that also offers plenty of square footage are long gone,…