Design NewsScaffolding Worth Looking At
The Atlantic Yards construction site is no one’s idea of beautiful, making it an ideal candidate for beautificatio […]
Design NewsManipulating the Megacity
This Saturday, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum opens its second exhibition in what has now become a series, […]
The Futurist’s ApartmentFlying cars notwithstanding, we really are living in a Jetsonian age. Four industrial designers scour the globe for next-gen appliances, hardw […]
Design NewsThe Other IHOP (International House of Patterns)
After dipping a toe in New York’s retail waters with its shop-in-a-shop at the Soho Crate & Ba […]
Design NewsPeople to Buildings: Don’t Waste Your Energy
Almost 40 percent of the energy consumed in the United States is used by buildings, a fact that in […]
Design NewsA New Home for the Huddled Masses
The Lower East Side’s beloved Tenement Museum yesterday opened its expanded visitors’ center designed by Perk […]
Design NewsDumbo Meets Seabiscuit
After a 27-year restoration project, the near-century-old Jane’s Carousel will open to riders at Brooklyn Bridge Park on […]
Design NewsShopping Inside a Disco Ball
Boffo, a New York–area nonprofit dedicated to arts and design, throws both disciplines together at a specially des […]
Design NewsMambo Americano
The Hotel Americano, soft-opening September 6 in West Chelsea, doesn’t limit itself to a single international style. The metal- […]
BullhornWhat the president used to find his voice again.
Design NewsSnacking With Hackers
This weekend’s “Snack the Planet” event at the Museum of Arts and Design (madmuseum.org) recreates the Internet cafe from […]
Design NewsIrrational Architectural
Exuberance
MoMA’s exhibition “194X-9/11: American Architects and the City” commemorates a time when serious people t […]
Design NewsThe Less Design the Better
The subtitle of Phaidon’s new book on industrial designer Dieter Rams says it all about his iconic style: “As Little […]
Design NewsArt Meets Autobahn
BMW and the Guggenheim Museum have teamed up on, appropriately enough, a mobile museum. Known as the BMW Guggenheim Lab, the […]