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Best From Around the Web: Urban Re:Vision
Re:Vision (www.urbanrevision.com)
is an ambitious effort for collective thought, imagination, innovation, and
determination to create a functioning sustainable urban community....
Reinventing the Sleeper Car
The next generation of homemakers refuses to be confined to age-old
housing specifications. In fact, they often don't even need a foundation, and
that penchant for creative,...
The Kitchen Cure
A new website just kicked off on April 13th
that will make your life easier. It will run for six weeks, finishing just in time for your big cooking celebration
on Memorial Day...
Spotlight on Berkeley-based Natural Builders
Natural Builders
are licensed contractors that specialize in building with renewable
materials and eco-friendly methods. They reach back into human history
to utilize straw...
Decorator Show House Eye-Poppers
A decorator show house located in Manhattan? Now, you know that’s
got to be one of the most fabulous show houses ever! The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is
an annual event...
Etsy -- for Handmade Everything
Etsy was launched in 2005 to
provide an online emporium for buying and selling hand-crafted products. It’s
for buyers who have no interest in mass-manufactured items such as...
meta-d:a = meta-design: architecture
With its high-falutin’ rhetoric and sleek website design, meta-design: architecture’s ideology is
reflected in their choice of the prefix “meta” in their company name....
Contemporary Floating Homes from around the World
When I think of home sweet home, I don’t imagine a floating
home, but after seeing a few of these innovative gems I have changed my
perception of what a sweet home looks like....
Coggan + Crawford
No matter what house you
occupy there are always changes you’d like to make, obstacles you’d handle
differently if you could start over, and preferences you’d be sure to...
Home Design Find, Inspiration for Modern Designs
If
it's inspiration for modern designs or information on sustainable
building or just a glance at some of the more unique appliances coming
to market, then be absolutely sure...
Adam Richards Architects
Located in London, England, Adam Richards Architects
is a team of six skilled architects who have immense respect for
history and its preservation through structures as well...
Take Your Remodeling With a Grain of Salt
Remodeling is somewhat like DNA and snowflakes - no two are alike. Every
once in a while, though, we run across someone who has taken the industry to a
whole new level. Japanese...
The World's First Green Theme Park: Hollywood's Environmentaland
Move over Walt Disney, here comes something greener. Global
Inheritance, an organization created to encourage activism and social
responsibility among the world’s youth, has...
Extraordinary Log and Timber Cabins
Few homes speak to the soul of America like log and timber frame
houses. The original ones are landmarks with 150 to 200 years of history.
There’s something about traditional...
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Urban Exploration
"Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints."Sometimes one man’s hellish nightmare can be another man’s
heavenly dream. Such is the case with Tom Kirsh, the...
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