dasia taylor uses beet juice to dye the suture threads, which change color when exposed to pH changes.

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architects heri&salli completely restyle five guestrooms in an ex viennese brewery apartment building using strings of straw with eye popping splashes of color.

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architects heri&salli completely restyle five guestrooms in an ex viennese brewery apartment building using strings of straw with eye popping splashes of color.

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a centralized core and viewing platform disappear among a cluster of 99 descending towers and vertical tension cables.

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crafted by artist ben denzer, the three bags reinterpret the iconic birkin through creative arrangements of asparagus, cabbage, and cucumbers.

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‘with our co-housing project at the biennale, we want to show how the common space between the private dwellings offer possibilities for sharing and social activities,’ siv helene stangeland and reinhard kropf tell designboom.

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‘villa beusi’ by italian architecture studio calvi ceschia viganò is a single-family home that nestles within a verdant stepped terrain in the coastal town of sanremo. surrounded by olive groves, the residence rests on a degraded agricultural land that has been restored and transformed through multi-level terraces and retaining walls that combine concrete and stone-filled […]

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much of the current NY penn station has long been declared substandard and aesthetically in decline.

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the PRSNT project will launch on april 16th, as a limited edition gatefold white vinyl format, accompanied by a glossy art/photography book.

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the microgrid will mitigate demand from the con edison system and will serve as a backup energy source for the community.

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