Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea
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Indonesia plans to move its capital to the island of Borneo
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Sweden scraps Stockholm Fashion Week due to environmental concerns
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A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water
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IKEA and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia
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The universal S
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From ball pits to water slides: The designer who changed children’s playgrounds for ever
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
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Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did
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Rethinking the good city: Vallejo’s bold vision
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In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
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Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians
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Advertising is a cancer on society
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A warped, aluminium cuboid, The Twist art museum doubles as a gravity-defying bridge which spans a river in Norway
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A small city with big delusions: Pine Island, MN (population 3,000) has huge dreams, yet they can’t take care of their basic systems. Who pays the price?
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Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
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Car-free in Los Angeles? Don't laugh
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Selling the Long Drink in the United States isn't just about marketing a booze product – it's about selling the country of Finland
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Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat
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How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year
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Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store
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Is LA's flag good or garbage?
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New hotel at Preikestolen designed to hang over cliff edge in Norway
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The lonely death of a south Texas skyscraper
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Home elevators have killed and injured kids for decades. Safety regulators won’t order a simple fix.
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Danish court orders car dealer to compensate Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for using one of his works, Soleil Levant, as a backdrop for a commercial
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Vanished neighbourhoods: The areas lost to urban renewal
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Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.
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Women’s pockets are inferior
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Elliðaárdalur Valley – WilkinsonEyre designs biodome complex for Iceland
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Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund
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Finland invited me to visit and to learn all about the country's smart cities projects
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Architects behind Lapee say pink spiral design could end gender toilet inequality
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How Utrecht became a paradise for cyclists
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Sans serif, sans progressive policies: How campaign branding came to be a way for candidates to signal their progressive bona fides without actually having them.
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Clothing - linen, merino, cotton, polyester?
I personally am not a big clothes shopper, I pretty much replace underwear/socks when they break or I lose them, and once per year, I buy some clothes. Yesterday I bought my first linen T-shirt....
I personally am not a big clothes shopper, I pretty much replace underwear/socks when they break or I lose them, and once per year, I buy some clothes. Yesterday I bought my first linen T-shirt. And it feels so airy and comfy, it's amazing and not itchy. What do you guys prefer to wear?
Where do you guys source your clothes, also in regard to ethics - no child labor. I guess second-hand clothes are the best in that regard?
Does anyone here feel strongly about a specific material? I heard merino is supposed to feel amazing, but the price tag keeps me from getting a shirt haha.11 votes -
The oral history of the Super Soaker
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Oregon just voted to legalize duplexes on almost every city lot
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The shape of things to come
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Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure
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‘I think therefore I cycle’: Fifty years of Dutch anti-car posters – in pictures
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IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
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Do better bike lanes keep drivers safer?
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Ghazni's ancient tower collapses in Afghanistan
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If only experienced cyclists feel safe in a bike lane, then is it a bike lane at all? In Vancouver, a shift to “AAA” (all ages and abilities) bike lanes
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Against advertising: Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us.
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The corporate logo singularity: Against the creepy cheerfulness of a thousand smiling san serifs
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Jane Jacobs and the death and life of American planning
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