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Wood Chip Playground A local Butchers Hill resident, Maxine Taylor, used wood chips to create a parking pad at her woodsy, stable-house that...

We have been hard pressed to post in the new year. Life is swirling around us. So, we'll post this time-lapsed video from Oslo, Norway...

Awesome.

Metropolis Magazine discusses Detroit's confrontation with its deterioration here. A group of former Cranbrook Academy of Art students,...

On November 4-5, 25 Real Good Chairs were dropped around NYC, free for the take. Many were GPS-enabled. Watch the film to see what happened....

As we step across the dividing line between this year and next, let us celebrate the small, the reasonable, the wee. via Small House Styl...

This evokes the all-embracing spirit of the holiday. Thanks, again, to TED.

"I have about reached the conclusion that, while large industry is important, fresh air and clean water are more important, and the day...

There is no going back.

( The pitch starts at :58) RIBA Guerrilla Tactics 2009: Space Invaders Live Pitch The Royal Institute of British Archit...

(Click image to enlarge) Creative minds flock to the U.S. Patent Office to assure that their ingenious idea is not ripped from their hands b...

Wallpaper, the magazine of design cognoscenti (and a few poseurs!), has just published the Pentagram holiday cards that have been mailed to...

In honor of our little mashup of snow and ice here in Baltimore, we thought we'd post this gorgeous video. It is just ten minutes of a ...

Here's the situation in Baltimore today: the Blizzard of 2009. We like how snow rounds things and softens the world. Too, noise pollut...

If you like a slew of wonderful images for inspiration or just for feasting, we recommend a leisurely cruise on the blog "Feasting Neve...

Maya Lin - Unchopping A Tree from Unchop A Tree on Vimeo . Maya Lin , from her groundbreaking project "What is Missing?," provid...

(From left) Cover of Steve Heller and Mirko Ilic’s book Handwritten (2006); and Jon Gray ’s book jacket design for Everything Is Illuminate...

ID Magazine, America's foremost design magazine, has devastated the design world by announcing it is ceasing publication . The bible of...

FINGERS ON THE POLITICAL PULSE: Senate aides with BlackBerrys in hand during a committee meeting . (Sarah L. Voisin/the Washington Post ...

Minarets Banned The Washington Post reported that in a referendum last month, 57.5 percent of Switzerland's voting citizens endorsed ado...

When the Salahi's crashed the State dinner, they not only created Washington's newest verb, to be "Salahi'd," it look...

Click to enlarge image A terrific photo essay by Maira Kalman , who blogs once a month for the New York Times. The subject, Back to the La...

The brilliant and somewhat adorable, Ma Yansong, 34 year old Chinese architect of renown, and founder of MAD architects, was recently inter...

His first words are, "Perhaps I ought not to have accepted the invitation." Gregory Norminton tells the story of appearing at The ...

"Going West" is a beautiful short film illustrating the worlds in a book, incorporating papercraft to make something dreamlike and...

Don't miss the pleasure of Christoph Niemann's newest contribution to his "Abstract City" op ed series for the New York Ti...

Sarah Susanka For all of you who appreciate Sarah Susanka's championing of the "Not So Big"house, you may be happy to know tha...

MAXXI Interior 15.11.2009 Rome - Museum of 21st Century public opening Zaha Hadid, Architect / Designer Rome's National Museum of 21st C...

Holding up the city’s shaky infrastructure. You can find Argentine, Gualicho’s website here . (Photo by celso_nyc .) Get to Know a Graffiti ...