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This Oslo Workplace Is Made of 80 Percent Upcycled Building Materials
Local firm Mad Arkitekter refurbishes an office building using demolition waste, changing the conversation around material reuse.
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Cassette Aims to Bring Scale to Prefab Housing—No Changes Allowed
The startup’s modular units apply the rigor of product manufacturing to the challenge of the housing crisis.
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A Recent Book Surveys WOHA’s Commitment to Sustainability
Written by architectural photographer, Patrick Bingham-Hall, WOHA: New Forms of Sustainable Architecture examines eleven energy-efficient projects.
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Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly
This primer is a handy guide to toolkits, manuals, certifications, and indexes that can help you design with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind.
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Transforming a Gas Station into a Community Asset
Mini Mart City Park in Seattle, Washington, transf…
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How Black Designers and Architects are Reimagining Design
Here’s our regularly updated chronicle of the Blac…
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The Portal Pairs Circular Waste Technology and High Design
An off-grid toilet developed by Jeff Wilson’s Ju…
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Soft-Firm Empowers Communities by Reframing Social Paradigms
Talitha Liu and Lexi Tsien of New York City–base…
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Inside the Fight to Save Two Saarinen Churches in Columbus, Indiana
The small city has a wealth of modernist architect…
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Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building
In her new book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housin…
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How Black Designers and Architects are Reimagining Design
Here’s our regularly updated chronicle of the Black architects, designers, and advocates reshaping design for equity and justice.
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Inside the Fight to Save Two Saarinen Churches in Columbus, Indiana
The small city has a wealth of modernist architecture, but preserving it isn’t always straightforward, the contrasting fates of two churches by Eero and Eliel Saarinen show why.
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This Oslo Workplace Is Made of 80 Percent Upcycled Building Materials
Local firm Mad Arkitekter refurbishes an office building using demolition waste, changing the conversation around material…
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The Portal Pairs Circular Waste Technology and High Design
An off-grid toilet developed by Jeff Wilson’s Jupe; the Portal aims to revolutionize the porta-potty…
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A Floating Learning Center Is Inspired by a Salmon’s Eye
The structure, anchored in a Norwegian Fjord, was designed by Kvorning Design to have as little environmental footprint as…
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This Food Rescue Nonprofit’s HQ Offers Beauty During a Crisis
City Harvest’s Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights themes of reuse, reclamation, and…
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Profiles
Soft-Firm Empowers Communities by Reframing Social Paradigms
Talitha Liu and Lexi Tsien of New York City–based Soft-Firm bring their sociocultural awareness to design projects in Brooklyn and beyond.
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Who Was Pritzker Prize-winning Architect B.V. Doshi?
On January 24, celebrated Indian architect and 2018 Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi passed away, leaving behind an illustrious 70-year architecture career.
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Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
A newly resurfaced archive at the Illinois Institute of Technology reveals an artist always in motion.
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How Ghana’s Radical Experiment in Health Care Is Taking Shape
Adjaye Associates is designing 101 new district hospitals in Ghana, reimagining the healing power of design along the way.
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WRNS Studio Designs a Library Where Everything Can be Seen but Not Heard
The San Francisco–based studio’s design for the Bay Area’s Atherton Library incorporates rammed earth and Spanish Revival elements.
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This Food Rescue Nonprofit’s HQ Offers Beauty During a Crisis
City Harvest’s Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights themes of reuse, reclamation, and recycling.
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Ephemeral Tattoo Reimagines Tattoo Studio Design
Spearheaded Pete Trentacoste, former Casper environments design director, the “made-to-fade” tattoo brand now has six locations, each inspired by the city they’re in.
