Three strange river crossings
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The history of tie-dye
6 votes -
Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
9 votes -
The incredible video game packaging designs of Hock Wah Yeo
13 votes -
A map of the age of all the buildings in the Netherlands
10 votes -
The secret history of the conversation chair
8 votes -
Furniture giant IKEA has announced it will stop printing its traditional catalogue, one of the world's biggest annual publications, after seventy years
10 votes -
Manufacturing a better foot | Running shoes
4 votes -
How did Soviet planners design the Union's cities?
9 votes -
Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
13 votes -
The history of electoral ballot design
5 votes -
Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
6 votes -
Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol – the air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became independent
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How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font
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In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
9 votes -
In the ’60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
10 votes -
The BMW logo – meaning and history
4 votes -
The secret history of the conversation chair
11 votes -
Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
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In Paris, the rebuilding of Notre Dame is being shaped by history, myth, and Emmanuel Macron
10 votes -
How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
7 votes -
Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
6 votes -
What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
7 votes -
The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
9 votes -
The rise of 'facadism' in London
13 votes -
The frightening history of Halloween haunted houses
4 votes -
The evolution of urban planning in ten diagrams
12 votes -
'The perfect combination of art and science': Mourning the end of paper maps
18 votes -
Florida fruit crate labels, 1920s-1950s
12 votes -
A brief history of the bar foot rail
8 votes -
Why are plastic army men still from WW2?
15 votes -
A short cultural history of tie-dye
7 votes -
Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians
7 votes -
Is LA's flag good or garbage?
13 votes -
The oral history of the Super Soaker
6 votes -
The case for rooms
6 votes -
The Frankfurt Kitchen changed how we cook—and live
8 votes -
Notre Dame: Time to call in the French builders with medieval skills
11 votes -
Jockeying for position: How boxers and briefs got into men’s pants
8 votes -
The embroidered computer
10 votes -
How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
16 votes -
Nuclear War (USSR, 1980, by A. Shandro)
13 votes -
The ugly history of beautiful things: Perfume
8 votes -
Dressing up a Tudor lady
3 votes -
Famous Landmarks, Before They Were Finished
4 votes
