The 19th Century's 'Best Planned' City Tries Again
Mid-sized cities around the country are hoping to attract businesses and residents that can no longer afford the big cities. Will a "mobility revolution" help? Buffalo wants to find out.
Mid-sized cities around the country are hoping to attract businesses and residents that can no longer afford the big cities. Will a "mobility revolution" help? Buffalo wants to find out.
Gabriel d'Annunzio was the sort of man to whom whose his own children had to refer as "maestro." A pioneer of celebrity culture, he embellished his ardent nationalism with showmanship, attracting a cult-like following in Western Europe.
We can't decide if this is horrifying or hilarious, but we know it's ingenious, for sure.
The strange psychology that shapes your reactions.
This Wind Wall by Ned Kahn in Clayton, Missouri has 93,000 individual aluminum flags that flap in the wind.
Medieval bridges were marvels of engineering, given the technology available at the time — and nowhere more so than in the case of London Bridge, where deep, tidal flows made construction incredibly challenging.
Talk about custom.
From courses that cost $100,000 to ones made of tin cans, there are many ways to scratch that mini-golf itch this summer.
In order to minimize accidents and fatalities, cities must design to accommodate vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists in an equitable manner. Most Dutch cities do this. America and Canada? Not so much.
The American pattern of development creates the illusion. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed… and with it, the prosperity we have come to take for granted.
The Bulls logo is an icon, too — we just don't know for sure who made it.
The iconic chair designs showcased here have played a part in our history — from reflecting the needs of the world, merging art and design to even creating practices that transformed the manufacturing ideology, everyone should pay homage to these revolutionary designs.
We could all take a page from public architecture like this.
Papa John's founder John Schnatter gave his TikTok fans a tour of his 40,000 square foot Kentucky property.
Pontiac's streamlined concept had many features that have only recently made it onto your driveway.
A woman on TikTok, using only things she could find in her apartment, became fully ensconced with Wes Anderson's trademark twee aesthetic in less than one minute.
It's definitely not your grandfather's Oldsmobile. Neither will it be your grandson's, sadly.
Looking back, the cardboard slips that held blank VHS tapes in the '80s and '90s were… really cool?
A home inspection company released a compilation of serious issues detected while on the job.
One writer who is a journalist and author who has written about home design for her entire career recommends the best small-space furniture and accents, including Linon Home Decor Beige Bar Stool, Quiet Town Orient Sun Shower Curtain and more.
The architecture, number of doors, width of the sidewalk and the height of the buildings all contribute to truly making a street an attraction.
A typeface choice could influence your perception of people running for school board seats, the lawyer opening a new law office or the coffee shop you never noticed before.
A new Google Docs sharing menu is being rolled out worldwide and, unfortunately, it really, really sucks and I hate it so much.
We studied 10,000 websites and found that their design has become more uniform over time. What does this mean for the future of creative expression on the internet?
In 1970, Plymouth hoped to persuade Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro buyers to choose their Barracuda instead. One of Plymouth's tactics was to offer greater customization options — which led to this odd rendering.
Located deep in Hanoi's Dong Da district is one of the Vietnamese capital's most unique landmarks.
Apple SVP Craig Federighi talks about the iPad's new cursor and Magic Keyboard.
The 2010s were a high point for automotive styling, but the decade also had more than its share of low points.
Weapons expert Mike Loades tests out an enormous medieval weapon, courtesy of The Smithsonian Channel
Rendered on vintage ledgers and graph paper, each geometric shape relies on the density of the artist's pen markings to create works that appear to stand straight up off the page.
The movie director is famous for her interiors, but what does it mean to covet them?
You have almost definitely sat in a Monobloc chair at some point, even if you didn't know that name.
After losing 20,000 orchids in an unseasonal frost, "extravagant" Englishman Edward James turned to his real love, surrealism, and rebuilt his garden in rock and concrete.
As we redesign a new world partitioned by plexiglass, the industry experiences whiplash
Sex educators say that the omission of accurate anatomy on dolls can confuse kids. This couple wants to clear things up.
When you don't have enough space in your house, contraptions like this come in real handy.
How the digital world is liberating perceptions of what is possible in the physical realm.
As businesses reopen, social distancing rules will lead to new partitions between workspaces, reminiscent of the fabric-clad dividers of the 1980s.
The ingenuity of engineers helped build landmarks like Black Rock and the new supertalls. Our critic takes a virtual tour with Guy Nordenson.
No matter how much we try, it's hard for us to reconcile in our brains that structures like this can hold together.
A US font map containing 222 different typefaces named for American cities and places, with at least one font for each state.
Instead of having to open fridges in convenience stores with your hands, you can now do that with your feet.
When you need to transport an entire rocket, go big or go home.
Architects across the country are predicting nine ways the virus will affect the next generation of homes. Here is the forecast for the house of the future.
The new coronavirus has spread rapidly in cities around the globe. How might the virus make us think differently about urban design in the future?
Charles Bello tells the story of how he built a sustainable home with his wife completely surrounded by 240 acres of redwood forest.
Under most circumstances, designing a house with a gaping hole in the ceiling is an objectively bad idea. Yet, that's exactly what Murayama + Kato Architecture did with this house in Kodaira, Japan, and somehow it looks like a feature, not a flaw.
"Now is not the time for grays," says Pantone color expert Laurie Pressman.
Unfortunately, just because it needs to be picked 15 times doesn't mean the design is sound.
Contact tracing might be great in theory, but it doesn't take into account the behavior of real human users.
They're agnostic to taste and style; you see them just as often in modernist spaces as you do in traditional ones, making them feel like an afterthought, a circle-shaped thing to put in between all the rectangle-shaped things. They're space fillers.
Straw bale wall systems stand up to fire twice as long than those built with standard materials.
If you had a bathtub full of money, how would you remodel your kitchen? Here's 14 of the sleekest kitchens owned by celebs as seen in Architectural Digest.
Celebrities are turning to Zoom and Instagram Live to hang out with one another, make content and keep people entertained. Without makeup, hair and proper crews, it's a whole new inside look into the lives of the rich and famous.
Brent Underwood purchased an abandoned mining town, Cerro Gordo, and he's having the time of his life.
To create a giant Go-Kart he could potentially sit on and steer, engineer Matt Denton 3D-printed LEGO parts 8.3 times larger than a real LEGO car.
If luxury THC granola, weed aperitifs and CBD pillows couldn't make me into a stoner, nothing can.
Daylight, natural ventilation and unfinished wood surfaces can all reduce the abundance of harmful pathogens.
The reactor used molten lead-bismuth for coolant, which meant it turned into a brick if it stopped circulating, but gave big power for its size.
A YouTuber wrote some software to come up with the most optimal basketball backboard possible and then built it.