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Located in upstate New York, this one-room library-slash-guest house is exactlywhere we want to spend the chillier months, curled up with a book and a mug of something steamy. Created by Studio Padron, the black wood-clad library was built from ...
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When New York-based architecture firm Gluck+ was tapped to build a home in the stunning Colorado Rocky Mountains, the architects knew they would be remiss if they didn’t minimize the visual impact of their design. As a result, the firm ...
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A new device that relies on simple condensation to collect clean water from the atmosphere promises to provide up to 11 gallons of safe drinking water without an external power source, greenhouse gas emissions, or adverse environmental impacts. What’s more, ...
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London Design Festival 2016: Patternity has added a graphic climbing wall adorned with monochrome contours to the basement gym inside east London’s Ace Hotel. The London-based creative studio – founded by Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham – designed a gradient pattern for ...
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You’ve probably heard about autonomous cars by now – but what about a self-driving garden? University College London’s (UCL) Interactive Architecture Lab designed and built a nomadic, self-driving, and self-cultivating garden that they’ve named Hortum machina, B (the ‘B’ is ...
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Diller scofidio + renfro has narrowly beaten foster + partners and morphosis in a competition to masterplan an eco-island in the south china sea. other big names shortlisted for the contest included south korean architecture practiceIROJE and dutch firm UNStudio. ...
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When it comes to design, mother nature has a lot to teach us. The field of Biodesign has emerged as an exciting new discipline which integrates the best ideas from nature with the cutting edge of modern technology, fostering technological ...
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What seemed like something hotel guests can only dream of has now become a reality. Aloft Hotels now offers the world’s first voice-activated hotel rooms with the help of Apple’s Homekit and Siri. Just say the word and these apps ...
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Tokyo-based architect Issei Suma created a lovely forest home for two retired Japanese ladies, their caretaker, and cook. The home is shaped like five tents, and utilizes a stark minimalist and ecological style. Dubbed ‘Jikka’, the 100-square foot home is ...