A recent graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Erica Wakerly had to hustle to have her first collection of modish wallpaper and textiles printed in time for ICFF. She designs and manufactures her own striking patterns, including “Angles,” a…
Modeled after a venue where people exchange nuptials, the Sunset Chapel offers respite in a celebratory setting.
Jürgen Mayer H. designs and builds a small ski-town airport in just four months.
Rose-Colored Glasses This month, Paul Goldberger (www.paulgoldberger.com), the architecture critic of the New Yorker, looks back at terrible architectural predictions—for instance, George Gilder’s claim in 1995 that the metropolis was doomed: “The city, he said, was nothing but a tired…
DESIGNERS Studio Job www.studiojob.nl Studio Job’s gilded new monograph, The Book of Job (Rizzoli, $150), is really two books bound together. One side is what you’d expect from the Dutch provocateurs: a greatest hits of their heroically scaled, multilayered design-art,…
With three recent university projects, a California firm remakes the humble school cafeteria.
ARCHITECT: Andre Kikoski Architect www.akarch.com When Andre Kikoski was hired to design a new facade for a pair of warehouses in Bushwick, a gritty, gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, he wanted it to nod to the pointillist, technically challenging skin of Jean…
A London firm designs an appropriately understated workplace for Jasper Morrison.
TEN Arquitectos organizes a research complex around a pair of fault lines—one real and one metaphorical.
In Jerusalem, James Carpenter brings some much-needed coherence to an iconic but ungainly museum campus.
After years of living in the shadow of its acclaimed academic neighbor, Barnard College steps out into the spotlight with a glittering new student center.
A Brooklyn designer makes novel use of a scrappy New York resource.
Israeli chicken farmers object to the government’s new plan for industrialization.
Can the Big Three automakers stave off bankruptcy, kick their addiction to gas guzzlers, and create the next generation of cleaner, greener vehicles?
Imagine you are an industrial designer, and this brief lands on your desk: “To build a garment that will hold up under the most extreme circumstances”—so far, so good, you think—“without the astronaut dying.” Would you blanch? That, says the…
A prototype tricycle would let kids with physical limitations bike independently.
At this month’s Design Miami, tapestry, that fusty realm of unicorns and Renaissance battles, is staging a comeback. The exhibition Demons, Yarns and Tales—an unusual collaboration between 15 artists and Banners of Persuasion, a spin-off of the Rug Company—offers a…
Pet products are a natural lure for designers—judging from the Best in Show–style theatrics at August’s Pet Fashion Week NY, people are happy to dig deep in their wallets for Fluffy’s Swarovski-studded throne. Fortunately, industrial-design preoccupations such as simple forms,…
A slice of Frank Lloyd Wright’s auto-utopia marks its golden anniversary.
In 2006, when Josh Owen was charged with creating a stool for Casamania, his mind naturally drifted toward what he calls “object typologies.” An associate professor of industrial design at Philadelphia University, Owen takes an assiduously theoretical approach to design,…
The Spanish architect discusses his bridge in Israel as well as his project in New York.
Weighing the needs of the Academy against the building’s dramatic expression—seven rolling, seismically secured hills—required the work of 320 engineers.
Our editors select their favorite designs from the ICFF show floor.
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University’s recent discovery of a lost 1936 oil painting by Lloyd Morgan, chief designer of Schultze & Weaver, was an odd and welcome revelation to scholars of the New York–based architecture firm. Jonathan Mogul, a curatorial research associate…
This year’s competition looked for solutions to a global problem that many experts are calling the next big environmental crisis.
Nike has designed a shoe specifically to reflect the physical traits and cultural values of Native Americans.
A new software tool helps citizens visualize their cities’ eco-efforts.
When Tad Fettig and Karena Albers, castaways from the world of commercial advertising (they met in Hawaii on a shoot for Degree deodorant), conceived of a show about eco-architecture, they imagined a small-bore project: “Sort of like This Old House…
Green architecture in the United States is as geographically polarized as the political landscape—and a look at future eco-building sites suggests the trend will continue. The good news? More LEED projects on the horizon. Lots more.
Mainstream science and environmental groups have lambasted it, green customers and clients shun it, and companies are scrambling for alternatives. So why is PVC still so ubiquitous?
Among 91-year-old furniture designer Jens Risom’s extensive oeuvre, it’s hard to find an uncomely curve. But beyond his seminal pieces for Knoll, very little of his work is still in production. Two years ago Ralph Pucci International remedied the situation…
Jørgen Kastholm, the Danish architect and furniture designer whose collaborations with the architect Preben Fabricus yielded such midcentury icons as the Grasshopper and Scimitar chairs, has died in Denmark after a short illness, according to the manufacturer Lange Production. He…
A new furniture system aimed at the small-office market seeks to simplify the often daunting process of setting up shop.
Sonja Marzoner, a student at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, created the Self-Service floor lamp as part of the school’s surrealist House Creatures collection, which aims to forge “a subtle emotional attachment” between object and owner. Besides providing for its…
Two New York shops are featuring German design this spring.
A hydrogen-electric prototype out of Detroit brings fuel cells closer to the U.S. auto industry.
Ingo Mauer uses live fish to make us consider the slippery nature of light.
When designing the washroom of L’Atelier, a tiny new members-only lounge in Toronto’s trendy King West neighborhood, Antonio Tadrissi had to consider two powerful constituencies: men and women. Tadrissi, one of the club’s owners, wanted both sexes to gather in…
A Miami condominium by Chad Oppenheim will be thoroughly sustainable—if the market and the developer can bear it.
A genomic-research center for Harvard and MIT reflects the latest trends in university science buildings.
An internationally renowned design firm’s private obsessions are put on public display.
A new line of snack food steps into the ring.
For Interface’s Atlanta showroom, TVS Interiors achieves LEED’s highest rating by undertaking a rigorous predesign process.
The former president of the Italian company brought plastic to the forefront of design.
A new museum aims to connect locals to an emerging cultural district in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
In the mid-1990s, fueled by cheap rent and the local art school, the crumbling warehouses of Providence, Rhode Island, birthed some of the most exciting art and music in the country. “It just sort of exploded here, and it exploded…
Although limited in scope, a recent boom in green-roof construction demonstrates the pressing need for more.
Currently standing alone on 21 acres, Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s museum takes on an added public role.
Petra Blaisse outfits the Mercedes-Benz Museum with her trademark alchemy—drapes by any other name.
Among the many wallpaper designs at ICFF, Carly Margolis’s silk-screened patterns stand out for their graceful modernist take on natural environments. One illustration, of silhouetted birds perched atop spindly branches, depicts an actual tree near the Brooklyn office of Margolis’s…
