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Back To Basics
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Back To Basics

Everlane’s new Soho flagship, the e-tailer’s first brick-and-mortar store, embraces its ethos of transparency.

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February 2018
Retail - Lighting The Beacon
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Retail - Lighting The Beacon

Edina, Minnesota, is home to a massive—yet somehow nondescript—living relic of architectural history: the first modern mall, Victor Gruen’s 1956 Southdale Center. Innovative at the time, the mall is inward facing, with stores contributing to a new kind of communal plaza. But today, at the Galleria Edina, another mall just across the street, a new Design Within Reach (DWR) store aims to break away from this inward-focused architecture.

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February 2018
Architecture In A New Light
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Architecture In A New Light

Built in 1986, New York’s 599 Lexington Avenue has been widely regarded as one of the famed architect Edward Larrabee Barnes’s greatest skyscrapers.

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April 2017
Materials A Solid Refresh
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Materials A Solid Refresh

DuPont Corian builds on a legacy of innovation with its biggest release of new colors.

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April 2017
Rapid Response
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Rapid Response

Cultural institutions can often be imperious, even aloof. But the current “regime” change has galvanized them to pursue quick action.

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April 2017
Piling It Up?
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Piling It Up?

The blob ostensibly obliterated the culture of tectonics within architecture, but it was a short-lived fad. Interest has shifted again toward a loosely “aformal” approach —the pile. What are the consequences of architects

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September 2017
Character
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Character

Architecture can be funny, eliciting a laugh or a smirk. It can have a backstory. It can be a in an urban drama.But how far do you push it?

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September 2017
Back To Basics
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Back To Basics

At this year’s NeoCon, textile companies looked forward by returning to the roots of making textiles. Traditional and modern weaving techniques, the return of pure color, and solid basics (with a twist) were all jumping-off points for collections tailored to the needs of today’s contract settings. “Resimercial”—the crossover influence of the residential look and feel on commercial interiors—continued in full force. As we celebrate New York Textile Month, the citywide festival designed to highlight textile creativity and promote textile awareness, we showcase a range of offerings from our industry favorites.

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September 2017
Tokyo
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Tokyo

Ahead of its hosting duties for the 2020 olympic games, japan’s capital is endeavoring to shift its reputation from megacity to one that’s more human-focused. 

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September 2016
Melbourne
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Melbourne

Australia’s creative capital is galvanizing its citizens to help make its future a more livable one.

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September 2016
The Build Up
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The Build Up

After a period of concepts and temporary installations, a rising generation of practitioners tackles spaces for art and culture.

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December 2016
Design Is The World
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Design Is The World

Despite its dazzling, hyperbolic rhetoric, the third Istanbul Design Biennial largely delivers on its assertions.

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December 2016
Development Auto Motives
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Development Auto Motives

Los Angeles’s slow but visible transition to “carless living” helped shape LOHA’s pedestrian-friendly Sunset Strip housing.

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May 2018
Spectrum
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Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today

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May 2018
Festival
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Festival

Northern Exposure

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March 2018
In Production - Flying Tiger
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In Production - Flying Tiger

In Production - Flying Tiger

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March 2018
Building Details A Balcony For All Seasons
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Building Details A Balcony For All Seasons

Where open space is a hot commodity, NanaWall brings the outside in.

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March 2018
Mise-En-Scene
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Mise-En-Scene

For Ste. Marie’s Craig Stanghetta, the creator of some of Vancouver’s best-known interiors, design is never far removed from local culture—or personal history.

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March 2018
Development Room For Growth
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Development Room For Growth

A focus on flexibility is meant to foster an environment that helps patients and welcomes community members—both today and for years to come.

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January 2018
Anna Puigjaner
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Anna Puigjaner

Few spaces of the home are as coveted as the kitchen. But this architect is showing the way out of these wasteful private cooking boxes toward more efficient “shared” alternatives.

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January 2018
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Doreen Toutikian

Through Beirut Design Week and other initiatives, this young mover and shaker has restored Beirut to its rightful spot as a leader in design and architecture in the Middle East and North Africa.

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January 2018
Hospitality Vaulted Over
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Hospitality Vaulted Over

A new restaurant for a retirement community in England experiments with materials and typological precedents despite its small budget.

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May 2019
History - New York Modern
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History - New York Modern

The story of architectural Modernism in the city goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

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May 2019
New Realities
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New Realities

A kinetic, “human-actuated” pavilion comes to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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May 2019
Environment Trade-Off
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Environment Trade-Off

There are nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City, and all of them— London plane trees, Bradford pears, lindens—are working every hour of every day to sequester carbon dioxide and capture stormwater.

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May 2019
A Tough Stance
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A Tough Stance

At 50 years old, Boston City Hall is one of the most polarizing buildings in America. Building upgrades and revitalization plans hope to change that, but they mistake what the architecture stood for.

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April 2019
The New Old Los Angeles
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The New Old Los Angeles

The city’s flourishing restaurant, nightlife, and hotel scene creatively embraces Tinseltown’s extensive historic building stock.

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April 2019
Don't Fight The Building
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Don't Fight The Building

Andrew Zobler, CEO of developer Sydell Group, sees value in investing in history.

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April 2019
Solar Salutation
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Solar Salutation

The form of Jeanne Gang’s newest apartment tower tells you where on the planet it is.

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April 2019
Color And Light
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Color And Light

Metropolis breaks down the spectrum, revealing how designers grapple with light across scales and typologies.

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April 2019