10 courtyards that function as outdoor living spaces

January 5, 2018 Emily Wadsworth 0

Nothing makes the connection between indoor and outdoor space like a courtyard. This week’s roundup of images from Pinterest celebrates some of the best examples, from a Japanese house built around a family’s beloved tree, to the open-air courtyard of an apartment block in one of LA’s densest neighbourhoods. Hiiragi’s House, Japan, by Takashi Okuno Japanese

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The Key Ingredient Your Entry May Be Missing (16 photos)

January 5, 2018 Becky Harris 0
If you feel like your front entry is missing something, there’s a design move that could fix it right up. The right mirror can bounce light around, serve as an art-like piece, make the space feel larger and give you a chance to check your teeth for poppy seeds before you venture out into the world.
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Harvard Announces Winners of 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowships

January 5, 2018 Patrick Lynch 0

Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the six recipients of their 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship program. Inspired by Lord Richard Rogers’ “commitment to cross-disciplinary investigation and engagement,” the Fellowship established last year to support individuals “whose research will be enhanced by access to London’s extraordinary institutions, libraries, practices, professionals, and other unique resources.”

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“America’s hinterlands now serve as playgrounds for the few wired haves”

January 5, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Globalisation isn’t killing the USA’s backwater cities and rural areas, but rather turning them into escapes for wealthy “digirati” who are pumping money into regeneration projects, says Aaron Betsky in response to a New York Times article. Big cities operate globally. Well, duh. It took the “newspaper of record”, the New York Times, only about

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