New Exhibit Highlights the Creative Potential of Scrap in Textile Design
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's latest exhibition showcases high-minded examples of textile upcycling.
Adaptive Reuse
An Erstwhile Brewery, Hotel Emma Balances Grit and Glamour
In San Antonio’s newest historic district, a strikingly renovated hotel allows some grit in its glamour.
Lacaton & Vassal Have Pioneered a Strategy for Saving France's Social Housing
Social housing is threatened with demolition nearly everywhere it exists. Two architects have pioneered a strategy for saving these important public assets and the communities that live in them.
Hong Kong's PMQ Is the City's Newest Design Incubator
A historic site in Hong Kong that once housed its married police officers finds new life as a cultural hub and incubator for young designers.
Paris's Famous Molitor Hot Spot Gets New Lease on Life
The design of the Molitor hotel pays homage to its rich legacy, after being an Art Deco icon, then a graffiti destination.
Once a Brownfield Site, The Steel Yard Is Now a Creative Center
Historic industrial site becomes a multi-purpose community campus
The London Olympics Are Over. Now What?
Just as Danny Boyle’s cinematic representation of England’s transition from a pastoral, farming nation to the leaders of the industrial revolution, London’s East End has been going through a transition of its own in preparation for the Olympic Games. The…
Holdings Company Finds an Unlikely Home in New Haven Ruin
Governor Dannel Malloy cuts the ribbon at the new Higher One offices Courtesy Teo Quintana Last Tuesday, financiers Higher One cut the ribbon on its new, 150,000 sq. ft., $46 million office space in New Haven’s once-defunct Winchester Repeating Arms factory.…
Making a House From the Big Dig's Scraps
Using recycled materials from the Big Dig, Single Speed Design creates a house of monumental proportions.
