Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long – The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies
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Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating [and celebrating] their demolition of false columns
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Arlington Virginia missing middle trial heralds legal fight over suburban zoning
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This Miami luxury condo is burying crystals in its building foundation to create good ‘vibes’
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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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Fire breaks out at Copenhagen's historic Stock Exchange
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What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
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The old new way to provide cheap housing
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Barcelona car free super blocks have social benefits - help reduce loneliness
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Joe Biden administration offers $35 billion in low-interest loans to support US transit-oriented development
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Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky
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The off-kilter beauty of the NYC's shabby, singular storefronts
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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 Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
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So you want to turn an office building into a home?
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What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.
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Architects trying to make Denmark carbon-neutral – Copenhagen hosts 2023 World Congress of Architects, displaying experimental structures that could decarbonise housing
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The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
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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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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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So you want to turn an office building into a home?
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Wikipedia has spent years on a barely noticeable redesign
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Arne Aksel: ‘Denmark had become this decorative no-go land. We've been in a white or gray or beige box for what – 20, 25 years? I think people have had enough.’
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Kanye West's worst nightmare is coming true — Adidas plans to sell Yeezys under new branding
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Investigating the mysteriously feel-good "Texas Turnaround"
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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong
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How OXO conquered the American kitchen
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How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand
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The year of dedication that goes into becoming a Mardi Gras Indian
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Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
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Typography on the web
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Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
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Want to get rid of San Francisco's most toxic monument to racism and segregation? End single-family zoning.
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You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue
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Brutalist buildings aren’t unlovable. You’re looking at them wrong.
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The downside to life in a supertall tower: Leaks, creaks, breaks
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Emily Ratajkowski - Owning my image
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The history of electoral ballot design
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Sweatpants forever
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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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Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire
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Open Platform and JAJA Architects construct Denmark's first wooden parking house, enabling Denmark reach its goal to become climate neutral in 2050
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Inside the collapse of $100 million home-design startup Homepolish
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The Trump administration and the mandate for neo-classicism
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In Paris, the rebuilding of Notre Dame is being shaped by history, myth, and Emmanuel Macron
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The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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The frightening history of Halloween haunted houses
4 votes