Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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I’ve stopped using box plots. Should you?
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
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Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
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The new architecture wars
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
23 votes -
Give us something to look at: Why ornament matters in architecture
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Review: A Field Guide to American Houses, by Virginia Savage McAlester
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Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata on The Alternative Limb Project and the nexus of art and medicine
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As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries reshaped the built world.
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The mystery of the Bloomfield bridge
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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 long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
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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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Doomsday prep for the super-rich
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Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern
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Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
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A peer reviewed paper on walkable neighbourhoods finds that walkability improves residents' happiness
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The age of average
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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Making of mathematical instruments - transforming a public domain book into a website
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How OXO conquered the American kitchen
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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When is the revolution in architecture coming?
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Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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The incredible video game packaging designs of Hock Wah Yeo
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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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Why we don't like our underground house
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Emily Ratajkowski - Owning my image
26 votes -
Sweatpants forever
13 votes -
The science of user experience: How to use cognitive science in modern software development
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Solarpunk: Post-industrial design and aesthetics
5 votes -
How the coronavirus could reshape architecture
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Will the millennial aesthetic ever end?
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The curse of an open floor plan
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Inspired design decisions with Otto Storch: When idea, copy, art and typography became inseparable
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2020 Scottsdale Collectible Car Auction Preview: The million-dollar cars
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The typography of Blade Runner
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The iPod silhouettes
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Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River
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Preparing for our prefab future
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Less human than human: The design philosophy of Steve Jobs
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A Nobel-winning economist goes to Burning Man
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Rethinking the good city: Vallejo’s bold vision
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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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Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
11 votes