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Viñoly's New Domino Moves Forward
The $1.5 billion Brooklyn development was approved by the City Council, ending a contentious multi-year review process.
The G-List + the A-List
Why aren't America's most prominent architects creating our most sustainable buildings?
In Touch with a Smarter Future
IBM promotes its Smarter City project with an interactive installation at New York's JFK airport.
Studio 804's Real Estate Woes
The celebrated design-build program can't find buyers for two recent homes.
Q&A: Art vs. Climate Change
Our editor in chief talks with the organizers of the CoolClimate Art Contest.
Letter from Baltimore: Storage Pods for Disaster Relief?
A Maryland company's overstock of plywood boxes could provide shelter for earthquake victims in Haiti.
Preserving the Past to Protect the Future
An organizer of the Living City Design Competition explains why historic preservation is essential to the cities of tomorrow.
SFMOMA Goes to Snøhetta
The Olso- and New York–based firm will lead the highly anticipated museum expansion.
Magazine
Random Acts of Architecture
By combining classic modernism with a less predictable approach, the San Francisco– based firm Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects creates the ultimate art collectors’ house.
Great Good Places
New restaurants that look like they’ve been part of their neighborhoods forever all share a subtle but ambitious social agenda: to create and celebrate community.
House, Interrupted
An experimental addition pays curious respect to a dilapidated farmhouse outside of Vienna.
Breaking News!
Democracy Now!’s new offices become the first broadcast facility to achieve LEED Platinum.
Design + Policy = Fit Cities
Creating a metropolis that encourages physical activity requires real collaboration.
The Eustachian Restaurant
It’s a desperate attempt to avoid confronting the solemn act of eating: the violence involved in the killing of living things and the brutish discharge of biological need.
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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
CoolClimate Art Contest
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This year’s ICFF conference featured a cast of “design entrepreneurs” who are reinventing their practices through creative approaches to the new economy.
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Abet Laminati Opens New Landmark
Abet Laminati, manufacturer of high-pressure-laminates, has opened a new 17,000 square-foot office, showroom, and warehouse space on the west coast.
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