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The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia
What happens when public safety clashes with modern architecture?
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Why is Rem Koolhaas the World’s Most Controversial Architect?
Age has not tempered the Dutch architect, who at 67 continues to shake up the cultural landscape with his provocative designs
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The Unbuilt High-rise Designs of Rem Koolhaas and OMA
The radical, unbuilt high-rises designed by Rem Koolhaas are witty, subversive, and surprisingly simple
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Yesterday’s Tomorrows: How a Smithsonian Exhibit I Never Saw Changed My Life
Meet the historians who pioneered scholarship of retro-futurism
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The Scene of Deduction: Drawing 221B Baker Street
From pen-and-ink sketches to digital renderings, generations of Sherlock Holmes fans have undertaken drafting the detective’s famous London flat
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Memorization may seem like a brain-based skill, but it has as much to do with our bodies and our buildings
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The Mystery of 221B Baker Street
Our series on Design and Sherlock Holmes begins with an investigation into the location of the famous detective’s London flat
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An Architect-Turned-Barista Draws a Fine Line Between Brewing and Design
As the finale to our coffee series, we talk with Yeekai Lim, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles, about coffee, design, and the common ground(s) they share
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How Maker Culture is Reshaping Retail Design
A San Francisco coffee shop pulls back the curtain to expose the process behind each cup served in their expansive warehouse space
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The 1958 Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Vacation Resort
Give me your huddled masses yearning to go shopping and swimming
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Googie: Architecture of the Space Age
The futurist design movement that divided critics and and swept the nation with space age coffee shops
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What ever happened to the Starport, the brainchild of Jim Starry that re-imagined the airport?
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Inside the Plan to Get 100,000 Homeless Off the Streets
A new campaign has enjoyed stunning success in lowering the number of chronically homeless in the United States
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The New Hot Item on the Housing Market: Bomb Shelters
The cold war may be over, but sales of a new breed of bomb shelter are on the rise. Prepare to survive Armageddon in style
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Rebuilding Rainwater Collection in India
From one conservationist’s perspective, harvesting rainwater doesn’t mean high-tech strategies—traditional techniques have been around for centuries
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Winners Announced for National Mall Design Competition
The area between the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol has seen better days, but architects are vying to improve the nation’s front lawn
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What Are America’s Most Iconic Homes?
According to the National Building Museum, these houses, more than most, have impacted the way we live
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Futureproofing California Farmland
Design teams propose new models for farming and suburban development in California’s water-scarce Central Valley
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