After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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The tactile road crossing map is not just a feature that sets Swedish pedestrian signal boxes apart, it's also the first and original design of its kind
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Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating [and celebrating] their demolition of false columns
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Evaluating the significance of San Lorenzo Village, a mid-20th century suburban community
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Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses
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Paris 2024 Olympic pictograms - what happened?
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Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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Fit to be dyed: The enduring appeal of tie-dye
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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)
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Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
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Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the River Thames
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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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Utopian Scholastic
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Why Frank Lloyd Wright was so good
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How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
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The battle for Central Park
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How design collective Hipgnosis redefined the album cover: from AC/DC to Pink Floyd
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Finnish sauna that was gifted to the UK after the 1948 Olympic Games has been granted Grade II-listed status
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Hive cities: Reality or fiction?
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Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
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Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies
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Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history
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The history of emoticons
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Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let
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Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
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How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
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Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky
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‘Instant credibility’: The evolution of sneakers from functional kicks to high-value commodities
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The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
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The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
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“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
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Everything you didn't know about Ukraine's flag
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How one company owns color
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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The bewildering architecture of skybridges
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
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Buzludzha was the pinnacle of Bulgaria’s communist-era monuments and drew international visitors as a modern ruin. Now, it’s poised to be the country’s first monument presented like a museum.
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The icon sets proposed in the icon contest
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The secret world of Japan's puzzle masters
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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A gallery of Sony product design going back decades
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The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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