Expand Your Vocabulary

Nadel Architects with Barrio Planners: Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center

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Architectural Record offers The First Word: A Dictionary of New Architecture Updated Daily. The writers take a look at new projects and---in a single word---explain what about each design caught their eye. A nice resource for many different reasons, all good.

Design Inspiration

It is hard to beat the design style of Loraine over at grijs. Here is one of her Flickr slideshows of inspiring textiles and objects that soothe and excite.