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No city has had a greater impact on sports and stadium design than Kansas City. Boasting some of the most celebrated civic and private projects in the United States, this city, often dubbed the “Paris of the Plains,” has experienced significant economic, social and cultural change within the last 30 years. These larger forces have…

“You cannot bullshit about concrete,” says Kulapat Yantrasast, the renowned Thai architect behind on e of Los Angeles’ most exciting firms, wHY Architecture. With these words, the designer encapsulates the fundamental qualities of concrete, the material of choice for his contemporary home in Venice Beach. Exposed concrete possesses an innate sense of structural honesty and a…

There’s a revolution underway to quiet spaces, and not only in open-plan office settings. School bui ldings, healthcare facilities, retail spaces and hospitality venues, among others, can also experience their fair shares of noise pollution. Time was, architects and interior designers combated such issues by deftly and discreetly folding acoustical and sound-dampening elements and materials into…

Since it opened inside Chicago’s Merchandise Mart in 2003, LuxeHome has been a tremendous resource t o retail consumers and the trade alike, and quite literally so. Located on the ground floor of the Merchandise Mart, LuxeHome currently features 37 residential building and renovation brands stretching 125,000 square feet, making it the world’s largest collection of…

There’s no dispute (at least, not by us) that the Netherlands is full of great design across the spe ctrum, from houses and infrastructure to utilitarian utensils and objects. So it comes as no surprise that something like a pedestrian tunnel in Amsterdam would read almost like a public artwork to those fortunate enough to pass…

Biophilia proposes that humans have a deep-seated attachment to the world around them. Indeed, becau se human evolution has almost exclusively taken place in nature, then affinity for it is encoded into our biology. Remove the forces that stimulated our species’ formation — you can take the boy out of the country, as it were —…

“It’s a long story, and I’ll try to make it short … ” starts Luca Drigani when he begins to tell the origins of Pilosio Building Peace’s project RE:BUILD. The foundation, Pilosio Building Peace, is a humanitarian offshoot of Pilosio SpA, an Italian company started in 1961 that produces, and sells and provides, scaffolding and…

Celebrated British designer Tom Dixon is a busy man these days — a very busy man. From opening his f irst permanent store in New York City back in November to designing several new product collections including some commissioned by other major brands, it seems as if Dixon hasn’t had a moment to himself. Yet there’s…

A stellar array of minimalism was on display at the winter edition of Maison and Objet in Paris last week. Furniture manufacturers known for streamlined designs kept it lean, while porcelain manufacturers lauded for ornament got into the modern game. Lighting seemed to take cues from the midcentury, the Far East and the luminary who…