Potential project is close to the corner of Michigan and Trumbull
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Read More These London High-Rises Are A Massive Experiment In Co-Living
In a city with rapidly rising rents, the Collective is creating a hotel-like space to house the young, penniless masses.
Move into a newly revamped London high-rise next year, and you can have a few hundred housemates. An abandoned office building is turning into one of the world’s largest experiments in co-living, designed in response to London’s insane rents.
This Grocery Store From Trader Joe’s Ex-President Makes Healthy Food As Cheap As Junk Food
Former Trader Joe executive Doug Rauch has opened a Boston market that brings healthy food to people who usually can’t afford it.
Think of a food desert, and you might picture a neighborhood where the nearest fresh vegetable is miles away. But the biggest challenge to healthy eating in poor neighborhoods isn’t always access to healthy food, it’s whether people can afford to buy it. One solution: A grocery store that gathers nutritious food that would otherwise be wasted and then sells it at insanely low prices.
These Norwegian Floating Wind Turbines Can Be Placed Far Out To Sea
An oil and gas company is launching an innovative floating wind park where the wind blows hardest—and that you can’t see from shore.
Statoil’s new Hywind wind park, off the east Scottish coast, may not, in fact, be the “world’s first floating wind farm,” as the Norwegian oil and gas company claims. That honor surely belongs to Japan and its iconic floating field 12 miles from Fukushima Dai-Ichi (yes, that Fukushima). But, maybe we’re being unkind to point that out. That Statoil is building a floating wind park at all is pretty remarkable. Indeed, you wonder why it had to stretch the truth about its good news.
A Behind-The-Scenes Glimpse At How Muji Makes A Tiny Shelter
Industrial design and architecture collide in Konstantin Grcic’s 100-square-foot prefab hut for Muji. Here, he walks us through his process.
Konstantin Grcic is no architect. Renowned for colorful, exquisitely crafted furniture, the Munich-based industrial designer has never built anything bigger than a trade show pavilion. So when the Japanese retail giant Muji tapped Grcic to develop a prefabricated hut, he figured he’d do what he does best. “My approach was that of a designer designing a building, not a designer trying to be an architect,” Grcic says in a phone interview. “The concept for Muji is very much creating a building as a product, something that could be reproduced and produced in a serial way.”
Another Reason To Worry About Inequality: Richer People Become Less Generous
Surprisingly, the worse inequality gets, the more that wealthy people may feel they should keep their money to themselves.
Here’s another reason to worry about rising income inequality in America: It makes the rich less generous towards the poor.
The Complex Framework Of The UN Climate Talks, Demystified
As COP21 convenes this week in Paris, this data viz breaks down all you need to know about the history, key players, and big decisions.
Yesterday, COP21—also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference—kicked off in Paris. It’s the 21st annual convention that aims to stabilize greenhouse gases worldwide and curb the dire effects of climate change. It’s a big deal because we’re closer than ever to a legally binding, universal agreement.
Here Are Some Pantone Bags. They Are Colorful
Redland London is now selling four types of bags in eight different Pantone swatches.
Since 2009, Pantone has been pushing millions into online marketing to turn the color company into the cult of personality it is today. And maybe now, it’s paid off? Because you can now not just find your perfect bag by color. You can find it by Pantone swatch.
A Look Back At Helmut Newton’s Iconic Magazine Spreads
A new exhibition in Berlin explores nearly 500 of Newton’s editorial photos, and the women who inspired them.
In 1981, French Vogue famously published a spread that juxtaposed two of Helmut Newton’s images: four stylishly dressed women marching toward the camera in the left photo appeared on the right stark naked. Considered scandalous when it first ran, the image later led to the fashion photographer’s legendary “Naked and Dressed” series, and is now one of his most popular photos.
