Blueprint for Change an essay divided in 7 chapters, by our contributor Carlos Cuellar Brown. In the several chapters, such as “Change,” “Energy,” “Self-reliance,” or Food autonomy,” Cuellar explains and under builds his vision of how we can create a wiser, healthier and wholesome future.
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Last week the eighth edition of Dutch Design Week took place in Eindhoven, Holland.
For 9 days, over 300 presentations and events were spread across the city.
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Iranian architects at Next Office created a series of semi-mobile transformational homes that can respond to its environment by adapting to seasonal conditions.
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As mentioned in our ItFits! trend presentation, mushrooms are becoming a huge trend, and not just for culinary purposes (read our “grow-your-own” mushroom kit article).
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With the tons of carbon emissions we produce each year, it would only be
naive to believe our current state is “fine”.
This beautiful “Unseen” house by French architecture studio Septembre, is based in the 19th district of Paris. It’s minimalistic and clean design, makes for a super useful, inviting space for a modern family of four. By removing the partition walls they had created a larger living area, with an open kitchen becoming the main feature
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To Follow up on our Off The Grid predictions back in 2011.
In 2012, Nick Olson and designer Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs and set off to build a glass cabin in the mountains of West Virginia.
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A recap after a month’s publishing, we’d like to share with you our favorite posts, check them out below!
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In today’s densely-populated cities, it's a definite architectural challenge to find space and create new, sustainable housing. New urban planning, for instance, in cities like Amsterdam, Tokyo or New York, is challenging because, there isn’t exactly a wealth of wide-open spaces and vast empty lots. Yet, the answer may lie right inbetween those spaces (and perhaps transform those empty lots into parks/gardens/etc?)
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After you've already toured all over London, it might be time to head out to sea for a weekend stay at the Spitbank Fort private island sea hotel.
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I have more than many reasons (to fantasize about living) why I love San Francisco so much. The Californian hub with a European soul, is the perfect cultural mash-up of free love, hippies, hipsters, food, defining neighborhoods, lots of fog and steep hills lined with brightly painted Victorian homes.
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House 18.36.54 by architect Daniel Libeskind can definitely be filed as 'extraordinary.' Daniel was asked by 'a very rich art world couple' to build them a country home and this is what he delivered. The couple probably couldn't have been any happier considering the fact that they had challenged the architect: “Whatever you design, we’ll ask you to make it more extreme.”
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Architect Raffaello Rosselli turned an old decomposing tin shed at the rear of a residential lot, in the inner-city suburb of Redfern, Sydney, into a contemporary light-filled live and work space.
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