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National libraries are amongst the most symbolic icons of modern-day countries

Love ’em or hate ’em, there is no denying that Apple is a true technological Goliath, th e likes of which the world has never seen before. According to Forbes, Apple is currently the 15th largest company on earth, and comfortably the most valuable, with an estimated worth of $483 billion. It comes as no surprise,…

Today is President’s Day, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s annual posthumous joint birthday b ash. Anticipating an excess of free time on this grand federal holiday, Lego recently launched a timely, patriotic solution: Brick-lovers can celebrate by building a tiny plastic replica of the Lincoln Memorial, the latest monument to join the brand’s Landmark Architecture kit…

The value of public open space versus that of cultural institutions was thrust into the spotlight in the Windy City last week when the Chicago Park District board voted to transfer some 20 acres of parkland to the city if the University of Chicago is successful in its bid to host Barack Obama’s Presidential Library.…

“It is certainly unpleasant and tedious to be confronted day-in, day-out with products which are con fusing, which literally get on our nerves, and with which we cannot relate,” industrial design deity Dieter Rams of Braun once said. In order to steer us away from the creation of such products, he formulated the “10 Principles of…

Like architecture, street art is embedded in its context. But in too many instances, entire walls ha ve been removed and exhibited in a gallery setting, effectively obliterating the artwork’s relationship with place. Londoner Rafael Schacter, creative director of the two-year-old collaborative arts organization Approved by Pablo, wanted to investigate how graffiti and street art’s site-specificity…

With spring just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about getting out of the city and into the woods for some fresh air. The brooks will be babbling, the birds chirping, and the sun shining. Forget what you know, camping doesn’t have to be roughing it unless you want it to be. Take…

In his chef d’oeuvre The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard explores the innate psychological connection between our childhood home and the house of our dreams: “Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to…

Architects — particularly those who advocated the omnipotent potential of modernism — are often accu sed of possessing some kind of God Complex, believing in their ability to shape whole landscapes in accordance with their unshakeable utopian beliefs. If that is the case, then the new Earth Primer App should have us all salivating: The self-described…