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Elissaveta M. BrandonThe Atlantic |
Peach Fuzz has been crowned Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2024. A soft, warm shade that is nestled between pink and orange, Peach Fuzz is meant to...
Spotify Wrapped is back, and in case you had doubts, it wants you to know that you are real. Despite a new design look that is extremely Tron (think...
Everyone knows the story of Los Angeles. How cars stretched the city boundaries beyond recognition. How parking spaces dehumanized the streets, and...
Ninety two percent of the world’s population uses emojis, so I can safely assume that we’ve all been there: you’re texting a friend and suddenly...
There’s a new smart fridge in town, and it looks nothing like one. Launching today, Rocco is a smart fridge that is specifically designed to...
Twelve miles off the coast of Texas, an intricate arrangement of 76 million tons of man-made material rests on the ocean floor. Known as the Rio...
Bruce Willen was looking at an 1890s map of Baltimore when he noticed something unexpected: There had been a creek running through the middle of his...
Every year, six Nobel Committees get together to select Nobel Prize laureates in six categories. The selection process is shrouded in secrecy (each...
Anyone who’s ever watched a single game of American football, which is notorious for its unapologetic, helmet-clashing violence, knows that players...
It is noon on a Tuesday, and I am sitting in a cocktail bar. But instead of a Negroni on my table, there is a VR headset. The reason for this anomaly...
When Patreon announced its rebrand on October 4, the news set one corner of the internet on fire. It also sparked a debate on the Co.Design slack...
The concrete industry is having a bit of a reckoning. As the world’s most ubiquitous construction material, concrete contributes about 8% of global...
In the late ’70s, NASA and the U.S. Air Force developed a system that revolutionized aviation. Known as synthetic vision, it provided pilots with a...
The Old World, otherwise known as Europe, is getting a brand-new city. Not a new arrondissement on the edge of Paris, or a new neighborhood in the...
The harrowing story of the Holocaust has been told in countless museum exhibitions around the world. But few have attempted to recount the events for...
In 2010, Rafael Atijas set out to reimagine the kids’ guitar by making it fun, approachable, and appropriately sized for children. The idea started...
At long last, the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is complete. Almost two decades after it shut down, the refinery building that once...
In the tumultuous history of Polaroid, the stars have aligned twice. First, when a group of enthusiasts resurrected the company after it careened into...
Quick, New Yorkers, if I blindfold you and drop you off in front of a storefront with a red awning that reads Balthazar, will you know where you are?...
Place branding, or the idea that a neighborhood, city, or country can be “branded,” is a contentious topic. Can someone who isn’t part of a...
Every time the earth shakes, an astute phrase comes back like a refrain: Earthquakes don’t kill people—buildings do. Such was the case in Turkey...
Richard Beckett has an unusual background and an unusual mission. Before turning to architecture, the associate professor at the Bartlett School of...
I recently stayed in an AirBnb apartment on the sixth floor of a modern condo building. The elevators were always full because they served more than...
A new type of theater building has been blossoming over the past decade. Let’s call it the “transformer theater,” where walls can drop from...
At first, they called it “The Thing.” Anything more specific would’ve been too esoteric, too restrictive, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art was...
Three years ago, the community impact team at the global design, architecture and planning firm Gensler set out to find answers to a question that...