Council housing: it’s back, it’s booming – and this time it’s beautiful
Tiled stairwells, lush balconies, curvy roofs and coloured bricks – after a four-decade hiatus, council housing is sweeping Britain, with quality and design now a priority.
Inside Mark Rothko’s Former New York City Studio
The building—which was New York City’s first YMCA and housed such luminaries as Fernand Léger and William S. Burroughs—was where Rothko painted his famous Seagram murals.
50 Years After Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s Ideas Still Define Landscape Architecture
Half a century ago, McHarg’s Design with Nature linked landscape architecture and activism. As we face global climate crisis, his legacy is more important than ever.
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.
Studio O+A’s design for the Slack Headquarters puts employees’ heads in the clouds
O+A spreads the wonder of natural landscapes across six floors for Slack.
Postcard from New Orleans
New Orleans probably shouldn’t exist at all. It sits below sea level. For much of its life, it was a burden on whatever government controlled it. Now it’s a city
Inside Slack’s New San Francisco HQ
Studio O+A crafts the ultimate workplace for Slack by channeling life on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Harmon Guest House by David Baker offers contemporary lodging in California wine country
Boutique eco-hotel in Healdsburg, CA.
Sea Ranch, California’s Modernist Utopia, Gets an Update
Demographic shifts. Climate change. The internet. “Sea Ranch is changing, like our society,” said the architect Mary Griffin. “We simply can’t build the way we did even 20 years ago.”
Celebrating ‘Good Design’ at MoMA: The Nut Dish and Other Populist Gems
“If most Americans had little patience for Picasso, everybody needed a decent can opener,” our critic writes.
Exposition Park plans a makeover that would make Seurat smile
Pal Sam Lubell on the new plans for LA’s Exposition Park.
Imagining a Past Future
I just heard this author speak at Storefront Lab in San Francisco. Her piece is worth reading.