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On April 24th, 2013, the building known as Rana Plaza, located in the town of Savar, Bangaladesh, co llapsed. The structure housed clothing factories and shops crammed into poorly planned space where around 5,000 people total were employed. The factories in the building supplied garments to companies including Benetton, Primark, and Walmart. Cranes were brought in…
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 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…
New York has seen an explosion in a new type of food experience: the marketplace. These are rather t amer versions of Spanish boqueria or bustling marketplaces the world over, with a very tightly controlled space and often high-end shops. Chelsea Market, Gotham West, Gansevoort Market, Berg’n, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Hudson Eats, and an upcoming Anthony…
You spend all day staring at screens. Wouldn’t it be nice to occasionally look up and see a friendly face? Going against the current tide of all-too-smart automated kitchens, Moscow-based designers Tanya Repina and Misha Repin go low-tech with LO-LO, a simple suite of wooden “microkitchen” units ideal for storing refreshments around the office. Each…
The ingenious philanthropic model of the public/private partnership has long sustained America’s cul tural and civic assets, relied upon by museums, historic places, parks, hospitals, and libraries for design, building, and ongoing program operations. The model constitutes the core of the nation’s uniquely market-reliant nonprofit sector — it is the bedrock of civic goodwill and public…
A small organic brewing operating in St. Paul, Minn., needed a unique architectural solution.
Thanks to innovations in material and process, the age-old light bulb ain’t so bulbous anymore. Thes e days it twists, it oozes, it pops, it surveils. Netherlands-based designer David Graas, who specializes in quirky material experiments like flat-pack cardboard furniture and recycled-PET bottlecap tabletop accessories, just added a new form to the mix. His Stalaclights are…
Would you be happy living in the shadow of a skyscraper? That is the question being asked by many lo cal residents on both sides of the Atlantic at present: As a row of glittering new towers begins to rise along the southern exposure of Central Park in Manhattan, a debate is raging over similar plans…