Foster + Partners’ 100 East 53rd Tips Its Hat to Its Iconic Midtown Neighbors
Many of the tower’s 94 units look out onto Billionaires’ Row, Central Park, and the Hudson River. Courtesy DBOX In the days before the luxury mishmashes of the High Line and Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s...
View ArticleOpen Style Lab’s Fashion Toolkit Is a Hack-In-A-Box
The Hack-Ability kit contains supplies like stencils, premade loops, and an adaptive needle threader. Courtesy Kilian Son For the billion-plus people worldwide who are living with a disability,...
View ArticleWith Its Exhibition Add to the Cake, Foreign Legion Calls for Inclusion
A timeline outlining some achievements of women in design, produced as part of the new exhibition Add to the Cake with artwork by Raby Florance Fofana and graphic design by Andrea Anner. Courtesy...
View ArticleSitting Alone in Public: How the Café Chair Defined Modern Urban Culture
The bistro chair from Thonet is shrouded in mythology that attests to its ubiquity and durability. (The No. 14 is rumored to have survived a fall from the Eiffel Tower in 1889 unscathed.) Thonet’s...
View ArticleNashville’s High-Kitsch Hideaway Is Full of Retro Charm
Courtesy Ben Fitchett Nestled amid the pawn shops, drab motels, and discount grocers on Dickerson Pike in Nashville, a new venue offers kitsch-loving carousers an unusual place to lay their heads. The...
View ArticleKPF’s Gleaming New Tower at New York’s 55 Hudson Yards
The podium at 55 Hudson Yards, which brings texture and dimension to New York’s newest neighborhood. Courtesy KPF/Raimund Koch For the past year, New York City’s Hudson Yards development has been...
View ArticleNew Glass Technology Supports Circadian Lighting
Sponsored by: When it comes to designing workplaces that support health and wellness, architects and designers have no greater ally than natural light. In recognition of daylight’s importance to human...
View ArticleExhibitions on Both Sides of the Atlantic Ponder Future Life—on Earth, and...
Moving to Mars exhibition Courtesy Ed Reeve “Should I stay or should I go?” pondered English punk rock band The Clash in their 1982 hit single. Fast forward three decades and that question is at the...
View ArticleWilsonart’s Virtual Design Library is the Place to Find Unique Laminate Designs
Sponsored by: Even though advanced technology and digital printing have revolutionized how laminate surfaces are produced, creating a near-infinite number of possible hues and patterns, most High...
View ArticleAt Cornell’s New Fine Arts Library, the Book Sets the Standard
The Mui Ho Fine Arts Library at Cornell University opened in late August. Its stacks hold a diverse collection spanning art, architecture, and photography. Courtesy © Lukas Schaller Unlike recent...
View ArticleFurniture Collection Reinterprets Nordic Design, with Help from Formica
Courtesy Perttu Saksa Formica laminate—the ubiquitous kitchen and diner countertop material of the 1950s—now covers tables and chairs in Kolho, a collection from Made by Choice inspired by the 50th...
View ArticleThree Projects Show Spanish Tile’s Wide Range
Sponsored by: “There is a polarity in terms of what is trending for design specifications for tile,” says Ryan Fasan, tile expert and consultant for Tile of Spain, a trade organization for the nation’s...
View ArticleOutlier Lofts in Charlestown Has the Neighborhood in Its Bones
In Outlier Lofts, a recent revamp of a Boston town house, local studio French 2D inserted three open-plan loft apartments, relocated the structure’s original entryway, and added a new top level....
View ArticleHow It’s Made: Parachilna’s Ghost-like Lighting Fixture
Gweilo, a recent fixture produced by Parachilna, uses thermoforming to achieve its dynamic, one-of-a-kind shape. Courtesy Partisans An architecture firm with product-scale acumen, Toronto-based...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Wildfires Prove that Resilient Design Needs Constant Evolution
Architects and product manufacturers discussed the new priorities of resilient architecture and design. Photo by Roxanne Turpen Set against the backdrop of California’s ongoing wildfire crisis, a group...
View ArticleAn Architect’s House Filled With Cosmic Energy and Historical References...
Nithurst Farm sits on the land much like a Roman villa; the building’s profile rises from a single-story entrance to three levels in stepped fashion. Courtesy Brotherton-Lock I feel for Adam Richards...
View ArticleBuild Tall or Net-Zero? The Conundrums of Energy Efficiency
The panelists discussing new targets for energy efficiency were Dan Heinfeld, president, LPA; Anita Snader, environmental sustainability manager, Armstrong World Industries; Stet Sanborn, Principal,...
View Article25 Kent Mirrors Williamsburg’s Aesthetics, Entrepreneurialism, and Rapid Change
The development’s unique “H”-shaped layout and stacked design is not only eye-catching, but provides a much wider variety of office spaces inside than a traditional building. Courtesy Ty Cole A new...
View ArticleGyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus
Historian John R. Blakinger writes in Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press) that the artist “pulled images widely and wildly—even recklessly— from an encyclopedic spectrum of fields,”...
View ArticleWhat is the Social Impact of Sustainable Architecture?
Panelists discussing social impact included Tracy Backus, Director Sustainable Programs, Teknion; Rand Ekman, Principal and Chief Sustainability Officer, HKS; Angie Brooks, Principal, Brooks + Scarpa;...
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