The fourth NYC Apple retail store is launching this weekend, this time on the UWS, raising the unavoidable question: has anyone actually gotten laid from the launch of an Apple store?
Dornob Design | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green
More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage....
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Through Architecture For Humanity's "Do A Latte Good" campaign, you can bid on coffee with one of our great supporters, and in return they'll contribute to help reconstruction efforts post-Typhoon Ketsana.
Shelterpop | Jaime Derringer | Posted 11.01.2009 | Technology
The brand new Facebook offices in Palo Alto, California got the designer treatment from Studio O+A architects....
Tiffany Persons | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
In 2006, I saw an article about earth-bag building. I was thrilled that we could use this method for the schoolhouse we were planning to build in Sierra Leone. But then our plans changed.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
Starting this week, New York Magazine reported, a newly formed group of do-gooder designers are launching a project to lend worthy social projects som...
Matt Rodigheri | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
A slideshow from the Saturday March by Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Technology
An underwater luxury hotel. A farm suspended over New York City. A rotating skyscraper. Impossible? No. The stuff of dreams? Definitely. We've p...
Mark Mennin | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.
Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
This weekend marks the 7th Annual Open House New York, when the city opens its doors to the public, giving free tours of some of its most famed archit...
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
This weekend marks the 7th Annual Open House New York, when the city opens its doors to the public, giving free tours of some of its most famed archit...
A. Siegel | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
The Solar Decathlon is a biennial, ever-cool event, pitting colleges and universities across the nation in ten contests that "center on the ways we use energy in our daily lives."
Nick Carr | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
When we last left off, Travis Bickle was cruising through Times Square. We then catch him uptown as he makes a drop off at the Hotel Olcott at 27 West 72nd Street.
Eric Bricker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment
I met the photographer Julius Shulman by chance in the spring of 1999. Unbeknownst to me, that meeting would open a hidden portal to Los Angeles, forever altering the course of my life.
Ecofabulous | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Guest post from Ecofabulous Ever since Jack Johnson turned "reduce, reuse, recycle" into something you hum on your morning commute, people have been ...
WebEcoist | Steph | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green
With a burgeoning global population that has ever-growing needs for both food and housing, many architects are looking up for sustainable solutions th...
nytimes.com | Leora Broydo Vestel | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
The company is aiming to become the first mass producer of what is known in green building circles as "net zero energy homes" - those that generate en...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?
Lisa Haisha | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Today tourism contributes substantially to Cairo's economy, but people still work exhausting hours to earn in a month what the average American earns during an 8-hour shift -- if they are lucky enough to find a job.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge brought together more that 7000+ students, teachers and building professionals to work on upgrading and expanding their learning environments.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.
Angella Nazarian | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
When I had the opportunity to travel to Venice recently, I knew this time I would experience the city in a way I never had before.
Jeffrey Hutchison | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style
Embracing sustainability and crafting a new face of luxury need not be at odds; by exploring ways to achieve both simultaneously, an exciting new era of of design can be borne.
nytimes.com | PENELOPE GREEN | Posted 09.13.2009 | Style
The building looks very much like a spaceship, which is what locals here have been calling it since its arrival in the late 1980s a term that was at f...
Doree Lewak | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York