Artist Vivian Chiu was always interested in making objects, but when she attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to study furniture design, she experimented with one of her favorite materials. “I love working… Read More »F5: Vivian Chiu on Joyce Lin, Sylvie Rosenthal, Meg Callahan + More
With the architecture industry’s current push toward adaptive reuse – the clever, sustainable repurposing, and reinvigoration of existing structures – comes a renewed and expanded focus on preservation. It isn’t just the obvious crop of… Read More »Fairmont Golden Prague Is a Brutalist Palimpsest Turned Holistic Destination
In our day-to-day lives, we are largely protected from the roiling underbelly of our planet – a vast, magnetic core rich with minerals, metals, and magma that keeps the Earth in balance. Occasionally, though, the… Read More »Foscarini’s Lava Lamps Go From Molten Earth to Modern Glow
As a burgeoning plant parent, something that frequently slips my mind is their watering schedule. Different types of plants, some succulents, require vastly different amounts of water, and some should basically be ignored, to prevent… Read More »LeafyPod Is a Self-Watering Smart Planter That Saves Your Sanity
Seven years of development allowed Openspace Architecture and landscape designer Paul Sangha Creative to thread a 10,000-square-foot single-story home through mature forest without sacrificing the canopy that defines the site’s character – a constraint that… Read More »Residence Designed to Weather and Silver Along British Columbia Coastline
Today’s workplaces include biophilic facets to bring the outside in, but most are still relatively staid in design, with neutral palettes and traditional styling. Yet when Bean Buro was tapped to envision a new space… Read More »Bean Buro Designs a Corporate Oasis in Hong Kong