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Nate BergThe Daily Beast |
It’s the crossover innovation nobody quite expected. Like the offspring of a steam age sleeper car and a Japanese capsule hotel, new trains...
There’s a coming population boom in the United States that is going to put its housing stock—and maybe its entire housing system—to the test....
The future of electric vehicle charging could be hiding below the asphalt of a Detroit street. For the first time in the U.S., EV-charging technology...
Landscape ecologist Harry Statter knows that wildfires cannot—and should not—be stopped. “Wildfire is a natural part of all plant communities...
Calgary was ahead of the curve, but the curve was heading downward. Long before the pandemic locked down cities and drained workers from downtowns,...
What the world needs now is a lot of labs. Pharmaceuticals, life sciences, biotech, and medical devices are all booming industries, and they all...
Sam Hashemi is confronting one of life’s great quandaries with a map. “I have an 18-month-old kid, so for the first time I’ve been thinking...
The design, size, and even location of refrigerators is about to change forever. Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of appliance brands...
In virtual reality there is much to be seen, but most of our other senses are left wanting. Ever since the concept gathered mainstream attention in...
An ambitious plan by Google to build 15,000 homes and millions of square feet of offices in the heart of Silicon Valley may have just fallen apart....
It was a deal that lit the design world aflame with jealousy. Fuseproject, the design agency founded in 1999 by industrial designer Yves Béhar, had...
Slack’s new user interface is upon us. As in, thrust upon us. The workplace chat and productivity tool that has become an indispensable (or...
Louis Huang’s life in high school is a glaring blur of screens. There are the TV monitors and projectors used by teachers at his private high school...
Thomas Jefferson may have been onto something. In the early 1800s in the Commonwealth of Virginia, he helped champion a specific kind of design for...
“I don’t have any architectural background,” says Iwan Baan, perhaps the most celebrated architectural photographer working today. For someone...
There’s a surprising similarity in most eyewear, whether it’s a luxury frame that can cost thousands of dollars or a pair of low-budget readers...
In a corner of the fast-growing northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, a vast landscape of blue and green is conspicuous among the housing blocks and...
Back in 2017, officials executives at the burger chain Wendy’s took a look at their restaurants and noticed a surprising trend. The restaurants,...
One of the most promising models for preserving affordable housing in the United States just got a big validation. The Housing Impact Fund, an...
The good news: Most new buildings are pretty energy efficient. The bad news: most buildings are not new. This is a huge problem in the face of climate...
MTV’s 2023 Video Music Awards left out one award when it was broadcast live Tuesday night from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. All the...
Leighton Davies-Smith has built his life around the lowly pen. As a PhD electrochemist, he’s had a four-decade career formulating inks, refining...
The new iPhone is out, and it can only be described in one word: pale. Revealed to the public today at Apple’s latest release event, the iPhone 15...
Using a ridesharing app has always felt a bit like a blind date. Neither the rider nor the driver really knows who the other is going to be; they just...
The cameras built into most laptops are great for capturing what’s in front of them. In the possibly unwanted, seemingly unending age of the video...
In Memphis, Tennessee, a remarkable new public park has just opened. Filling 30 acres along the edge of the Mississippi River with active, social,...