From Green Design to Conspicuous Luxury, two articles forecast next year's hospitality design trends for one of the world's most wasteful industries. Will design determine if these perspectives are mutually exclusive? |NYT | H&M M View full entry
The V&A Museum has animated some of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings: geometric solids | a centrally planned church | rays of light | warfare | and when you're feeling dig duggish: the canal challenge View full entry
While Ourossoff talks about the impressive design of the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, this article breaks down the ambitious art show inside, "Super Vision" - a collection that alludes to scientific developments — space exploration, microbiology and digital technology as... View full entry
NYTimes - S. A. Baxter just opened a showroom in New York Design Center to sell high end architectural hardware, including the window latch that launched the company. Products range from $43 latches to doorknob ranging from $120 to $700. The quest for the perfect window latch ended up costing... View full entry
Tiny toy monsters, robot dogs, lobsters, military avatars and 'The Incredibles' ...Wired takes us on a mini-tour of the Design Life Now show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, which "highlights the direction design has taken over the past three years, with a focus on the themes of... View full entry
"designed to improve quality of life for both detainees and the guard force," the US has begun moving terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay into a new $37m maximum-security prison. Let's not forget the future coming war crimes complex. Read in the BBC. View full entry
A Tornado left a devastating trail of up to 150 broken houses and many damaged cars, fortunately only one person was taken to hospital. BBC In December 1954 a Tornado hit the same area of London. Almost the same street. Photo from 2006 View full entry
The Chinese authorities secretly executed a man who took part in violent protests against a hydroelectric project in 2004, his lawyer said. BBC View full entry
The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said Wednesday. The Associated Press via The Times-Picayune View full entry
More than 25,000 landless families in Indonesia's Aceh are still waiting for new homes following the 2004 Asian tsunami, aid agency Oxfam has warned. BBC View full entry
As a team of international workers begins to savage and save the world heritage site at Bamiyan, there is a plan gaining momentum to install a $64 million sound-and-laser show of Buddhas. NYT View full entry
The New York City Board of Health voted yesterday to adopt the nation’s first major municipal ban on the use of all but tiny amounts of artificial trans fats in restaurant cooking, a move that would radically transform the way food is prepared in thousands of restaurants, from... View full entry
Nasa yesterday unveiled plans to build a permanent base on the moon within 20 years that will allow humans to live there. Guardian > View full entry
If you are in San Francisco this week, Worldchanging is making its rounds and will finally touch base here with two events: First, Tuesday night (Dec. 5th) at 111 Minna, the book release party rolls on. And then, on Thursday evening (Dec. 7th) at the Commonwealth Club a panel discussion with the... View full entry
From Loopholes at the GSD to Theses at GSAPP, PARA has been attaching itself to quite a lot lately. Check out their recent work at 3rdWard in Brooklyn. | link View full entry