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In Memphis, a historic Black neighborhood’s centerpiece gets a new life

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This man turned thermostats into a $3 billion business. Can he do the same for food waste? 

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Is this $60 stopper what champagne’s been waiting for?

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Architects transformed these rundown motels into vibrant homes for formerly unhoused families

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The rise of ‘scar-chitecture’: Why so many new buildings are missing a chunk of their facade

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Moody’s designed a prototype office to engage hybrid employees. It’s changing how everyone works

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A Bugatti penthouse? That’ll cost you $200 million

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GM just opened a sprawling new design center that will help shape the future of its cars

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Limitless wants its AI wearable to be your memory’s assistant

15.04.2024 10

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Ikea’s new gaming furniture is bright, flexible, and inflatable

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This building wants to be the Swiss army knife of urban living

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This new coffin-size train cabin could be the future of overnight rail travel

It’s the crossover innovation nobody quite expected. Like the offspring of a steam age sleeper car and a Japanese capsule hotel, new trains...

07.12.2023 7

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America’s housing stock isn’t ready for aging boomers

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....

06.12.2023 9

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Detroit’s road of the future will charge your car as you drive on it

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...

30.11.2023 8

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This Wyoming startup developed a rooftop sprinkler to protect your home from wildfires

Landscape ecologist Harry Statter knows that wildfires cannot—and should not—be stopped. “Wildfire is a natural part of all plant communities...

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How Calgary blazed the trail for converting offices to housing

Calgary was ahead of the curve, but the curve was heading downward. Long before the pandemic locked down cities and drained workers from downtowns,...

18.11.2023 10

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These sterile labs are designed to transform into stylish apartments

What the world needs now is a lot of labs. Pharmaceuticals, life sciences, biotech, and medical devices are all booming industries, and they all...

15.11.2023 7

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This easy-to-use tool will let you make a map of anything

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...

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Inside Whirlpool’s ambitious plan to reimagine the refrigerator

The design, size, and even location of refrigerators is about to change forever. Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of appliance brands...

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This groundbreaking tech could finally bring a sense of touch to virtual reality

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...

08.11.2023 10

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Google’s plan to build 15,000 new homes in Silicon Valley just got more complicated

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....

07.11.2023 10

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Yves Béhar is taking back control of Fuseproject, and doubling down on EVs

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...

06.11.2023 9

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Four ways Slack’s confusing redesign is making it hard to work today

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...

26.10.2023 3

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This 18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn’t strain your eyes

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...

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Almost all courtrooms have this design feature. Could it actually be a flaw?

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...

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Iwan Baan is interested in more than your fancy building

“I don’t have any architectural background,” says Iwan Baan, perhaps the most celebrated architectural photographer working today. For someone...

23.10.2023 2

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Why your next pair of eyeglasses will probably be made from beans

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...

18.10.2023 6

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Meet the landscape architect turning cities into sponges

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...

17.10.2023 2

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Wendy’s just redesigned itself for the Uber Eats era

Back in 2017, officials executives at the burger chain Wendy’s took a look at their restaurants and noticed a surprising trend. The restaurants,...

12.10.2023 5

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Charlotte’s brilliant plan to save affordable homes is a blueprint for other expensive cities

One of the most promising models for preserving affordable housing in the United States just got a big validation. The Housing Impact Fund, an...

26.09.2023 10

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Every building has a carbon footprint. These new tools can tell you how big it is

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...

26.09.2023 10

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MTV’s Video Music Awards stage should have gotten its own award

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...

14.09.2023 10

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Teeth whitening just got a major redesign . . . from the designer behind the Sharpie

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...

14.09.2023 8

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The new iPhone’s muted colors mark the end of tech’s bright era

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...

12.09.2023 7

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Lyft wants more women and nonbinary drivers (and Lyft riders want that, too)

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...

12.09.2023 8

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Logitech’s clever new camera is a godsend for YouTubers

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...

11.09.2023 10

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This $61 million riverfront park turns Memphis into a natural wonderland

In Memphis, Tennessee, a remarkable new public park has just opened. Filling 30 acres along the edge of the Mississippi River with active, social,...

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