Ikea’s new cue
SCPF Ikea campaign, Barcelona Hoping the Swedish Meatballs Hold Out in Red Hook By Jennifer 8. Lee The New York Times May 12, 2008 So the first thing Ikea wants you to know: Customers will not be...
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Compact and bijou – the slums of tomorrow? By Ray Furlong September 12, 2008 BBC News New homes in England are being built smaller than almost anywhere else in Europe, a new exhibition reveals. Are the...
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54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch Not only has a beautiful beginning to the new season rolled in to greet us with some pleasant weather (though I fear, having said that, the monsoon might return), London’s...
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Spin City By Tom Vanderbilt September 1, 2008 Modern Painters Tom Vanderbilt is suspicious of plans for rotating skyscrapers in Dubai and Moscow, and of the mysterious architect behind them. The...
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Sound structure I Cairo is a remarkably concrete city — a single view from the window whilst circling over Cairo International will attest to the fact that there’s no escaping it. Perhaps the root...
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Does This Song Match My Sofa? By Kate Murphy October 30, 2008 New York Times IMAGINE walking into an airy Upper East Side apartment with 18th-century antiques, gilt mirrors and chintz upholstery. Now...
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Curt Teich & Co. Lithograph ca. 1951 – Mesa, Arizona Urban development: City of the future December 4, 2008 The Economist A rare opportunity to build an urban centre from scratch Scott Smith likes...
View ArticleGallery — DLR Series
DLR 1000619 by Sarah Badr, 2005 20 x 30 cm S8R print DLR 1000619 by Sarah Badr, 2005 20 x 30 cm S8R print DLR 1000626 by Sarah Badr, 2005 30 x 20 cm S8R print Sarah Badr © MMVIII Posted in...
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Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, Designer, Is Dead at 92 By Steven Heller New York Times January 4, 2009 Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, an architect and industrial designer who led the team that created the United...
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VM Mountain Series by Kim Høltermand Philosopher Michel Foucault once said, ‘architecture is not an object but a process; not a thing but a flow.’ Little did he know that nearly thirty years later, in...
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