Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)
Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)
There are 80,000 chemicals that affect child safety and our environment. According to Congressional statements made by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), the EPA has requested information on about 200 of these chemicals, and has restricted five of these chemicals in 32 years. Many of these chemicals are in thousands of children’s products and regulation would affect design (more…)
Waking up with the roosters, reaping and sowing with the family may or may not be the way of the farm and our food supply in the future.
The design of the modern farm will be smaller and interstitial – packed between cities and suburban areas or grown sky high.
Movements on both sides of the aisle are set to make changes to the current way of farming, and make changes for the better for the environment. (more…)
When one thinks of the future of architecture and design, one is inclined to think about environmentally sustainable woods such as bamboo or recycled building materials. Concrete—a substance as old as the Roman Empire—is hardly the first thing that comes to mind in envisioning the future of the developed world. And yet it is concrete, that ancient, lowly material, that is in fact making waves in future-forward circles.
Why concrete? The answer is nothing short of astounding: multiple firms, (more…)
