Friday Five with Rene Gonzalez

Photo by Stephan Goettlicher

Rene Gonzalez is one of Miami’s most renowned architects whose work goes beyond just designing buildings. The award-winning architect is noted for his residential and commercial projects beyond his Miami locale each with a focus on material exploration,...

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E20_House in the German Village of Pliezhausen

Situated on a quiet street in the German village of Pliezhausen, just south of Stuttgart, is the E20_House, a crystal-shaped monolith designed by Steimle Architekten. The concrete house faces the street with minimal windows to ensure privacy from passersby. The two shorter sides of the house...

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A’ Design Awards & Competition 2017 Winners

Another A’ Design Award and Competition wraps up, and the winners of this year’s competition are now live! The competition highlights some of the best global designs, concepts, buildings, interiors, and products in all creative disciplines and industries. Submissions are reviewed by an...

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Hillary Clinton Applauds March For Science

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton praised the thousands of demonstrators who protested against President Donald Trump’s anti-science agenda on Saturday and urged people to “protect the Earth and all its beauty.”


“It is Earth Day, and we are marching on behalf of...

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ESCAPE Homes Unveils a 276-Square-Foot Tiny Home on Wheels

Whether it’s to save money or to simplify a lifestyle, more and more people are going small. Luckily there’s been a rise in tiny home design to meet the demand for it, which has resulted in some really cool and compact living situations that might just make you give up some square footage....

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Photo Series Shows How Two Moms Tandem Nurse Their Triplets And Toddler

When Dublin-based photographer Johanna King set out to document breastfeeding mothers, she came across a family with a rather unique story.


Last year, King photographed around 10 breastfeeding mothers and their families in their natural environments. One such family was Cliona and Sue, a...

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10 Vertical Gardens That Bring Greenery to Boring Walls

Vertical gardens have become much more popular as it seems that horizontal space has been growing smaller and smaller. Living walls can exist both indoors and out making them a great yet unconventional design option for your walls. They not only bring a natural element to a space, but they...

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The Brilliant Simplicity of New York's New Times Square

Times Square starts at 42nd Street, between the H&M and the Walgreens, and stretches north for five blocks. I stood there a few days ago, illuminated by the glow of a canary yellow ad for Spectacles by Snap. I found the ads as colossal as ever, but the space had changed since my last...

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12 Baby Girl Names Inspired By Poetry

April is National Poetry Month. If you’re seeking a name for your daughter that’s lyrical and poetic, a good source might be those that have inspired the poets of the past. Some are idealized Greek or Latinate appellations used by the early English pastoral poets in verse, some are found in...

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A Luxury, Wooded, Lakeside Retreat Northeast of Toronto

Created as a family retreat as well as a rental for other seeking a vacation spot, The Bear Stand is a 3,300 square foot house that’s nestled on the shores of Contau Lake, which is just three hours northeast of Toronto. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed the two-story residence within 100...

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Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts Uses Smart Design To Make Sense of Government Spending

USAFacts organizes 30 years of data from more than 70 local, state, and federal government agencies into an interactive visualization of America’s finances. The post Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts Uses Smart Design To Make Sense of Government Spending appeared first on WIRED.

The...

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Photographer Incorporates Deployed Dad Into Wife's Maternity Photos

A Texas photographer found a beautiful way to make sure a deployed soldier was part of his wife’s maternity photos. 


Nicole Bedwell was expecting her first child with her husband Wesley when she hired Traci Fugitt of Traci Lynn Photography to do a maternity shoot. Wesley was stationed...

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Radiohead's Coachella Set Was Kind Of A Disaster

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival got off to a rough start on Friday night, as Radiohead’s set was chock-full of technical issues that forced the band to walk off stage multiple times.


The Friday-night headliner got through a few songs from their newest album, “A Moon Shaped...

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A Turn-of-the-Century Victorian Gets a Modern Extension

Moloney Architects recently completed a modern extension on a century-old Victorian weatherboard house in Ballarat, Australia. The original house was no longer working for the family of five, so the architects devised a plan to give the house a more open feel by adding a “wooden box” on the...

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Social Media Upstart Mastodon Is Like Twitter, Except Way More Civil

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Nextdoor, your friendly neighborhood social network, was having a racism problem.
Last year, Fusion traced it to the platform’s Crime and Safety section, where users were filing incident reports based on little besides the color of a “suspicious person’s” skin. But most of the time,...

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New Gaming App Aims To Make Kids Comfortable Around Hospitals

A new gaming app is helping kids feel less frightened by hospitals. On Thursday, Toca Boca released Toca Life: Hospital, an app that gives children the opportunity the experience what happens in hospitals, from checking patients’ vitals to using tools like gurneys and wheelchairs to making...

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Friday Five with Lee Penson

With offices in London, Beijing, and New York City, PENSON has risen to the top of the crop of architecture and interior design firms thanks to the company’s innovative founder and CEO, Lee Penson. He’s clearly got a sharp eye and an adventurous nature that lends itself to that kind of...

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Ex-Lawmaker Says Katy Perry Is 'Ruled By Satan' Because She's Kissed A Girl

Katy Perry delivered a powerful speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala in Los Angeles last month, where she opened up about her sexuality and recalled her early years in a conservative Christian environment in which “homosexuality was synonymous with the word...

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A Dramatic, Minimalist Loft in Salzburg, Austria

Loft Panzerhalle came about after smartvoll won a 2013 competition to design the space, which is no surprise after seeing the finished results. Located in Salzburg, Austria, the loft spans 350 square meters (3767 square feet) of open space over two floors with smoothed and waxed concrete...

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A Newfangled Traffic Light Built for People and Robots

Industrial designer Evgeny Arinin designed an LED display that uses its shape, big arrows, and punchy icons to clearly articulate the rules of the road. The post A Newfangled Traffic Light Built for People and Robots appeared first on WIRED.

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Will Smith Starring In ‘The Matrix’ Will Totally Melt Your Mind

Will Smith famously turned down the lead role in “The Matrix.”

But how would the mind-melting 1999 sci-fi movie have turned out if the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” actor had actually starred as Neo, in place of Keanu Reeves?





Luckily, YouTube channel The Unusual Suspect is on hand to...

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A Pine-Clad Villa Built into a Slope in Lithuania

Valley Villa is a residence located in Vilnius, Lithuania just off of a main city street, but looking at the house you’d never know. Designed by arches, the house is surrounded by a lush forest of trees making for a peaceful existence.

The design process began with building regulations and...

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Mom's Poem Explores The Difficulty Of Being Seen As More Than A Mother

A spoken-word poem has gone viral for its refreshing look at how difficult it is for many moms to be seen as more than mothers.


In a video of her spoken-word poem that the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News posted on March 30, poet Hollie McNish explains that she only feels like an...

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Enter to Win a 2-Night Summer Getaway + More!

We’re excited to partner with Brick & Wonder to give away a 2-night stay at the fabulous Hudson Woods house in Upstate New York. Located 2 hours from New York City, in the midst of the Hudson River Valley, Hudson Woods is a serene mountain retreat that brings together architecture and...

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Meet The 6-Year-Old Fighting Vandals Of Jewish Cemeteries With Kindness

After hearing that Jewish cemeteries were being vandalized, 6-year-old Ayel Morgenstern knew she wanted to find a way to help. 


About a month ago, Ayel’s mother, Lauren Pearl Morgenstern, saw in the news that people were damaging tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis. Morgenstern,...

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A Modern East Hampton Home Gets a Dramatic Renovation

Rarely do houses that look straight out of a magazine also look livable and cozy, but Blaze Makoid manages to make that happen in this East Hampton residence. The Old Orchard Project began when a family purchased this 10,000 square foot house and after living in it for a year, they decided...

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Beautiful Renderings Resurrect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Demolished Buildings

Spanish architect David Romero is resurrecting Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost buildings one hyper-realistic rendering at a time. The post Beautiful Renderings Resurrect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Demolished Buildings appeared first on WIRED.

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Mysterious Carving Of A Woman's Face Emerges During Church Restoration

St. Mary’s Church in Rhode Island may be a treasure trove of secrets, and she’s just started letting them slip.


The church, which went up in 1849, is best known as the locale of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding on September 12, 1953, but now it’s getting renewed...

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Koolhaas Takes on Bad Design Villains in LA

His Möbius shoe shot him to fame in 2003 and Rem D. Koolhaas became widely known as the designer of the first high heel that crossed over from fashion design to industrial design. He was a heartbroken architecture student when he first drew the shoe on a piece of paper a few years earlier....

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'New Romance' Shows You Can Make Movies With Drones and CGI, But Also Make Them the Stars?

Autonomous drones, lasers, and computer rendering play increasingly vital roles in filmmaking, but what makes Liam Young’s moody, futuristic films so unusual is these technologies are not tools, but stars.
The Australian architect-turned-filmmaker considers his films In the Robot...

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'Walking Dead' Actor Daniel Newman Comes Out As LGBT

“Walking Dead” actor Daniel Newman opened up about his sexuality publicly for the first time, coming out as LGBT to fans on his social media platforms. 


The 35-year-old star, who has also appeared in “The Dark Night Rises” and “Sex and the City,” first made the announcement on Twitter...

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10 Modern Buildings with Facades That Keep Us Staring

Part retail, part residential, the VM Houses in Copenhagen were designed by JDS Architects in the shapes of a V and an M with balconies that jut out like bird beaks.

Photo by Darren Bradley

It’s no surprise that Adjaye Associates won the competition to design the Smithsonian National...

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