“The architect behind New York’s Freedom Tower - built on the former site of the World Trade Centre - has announced that it is to construct what promises to be the world’s greenest office building,” the Telegraph reports.
Located in Gennevilliers, an outlying district of Paris, the proposed building titled “Energy Plus” will be the first [...]

Living in the downtown core of a city is great for convenience; however, the cluster, congestion and busyness can leave even the most enthused urbanites craving a little nature. As a result, architects, city planners and designers from around the world are reinterpreting the way that new housing developments incorporate Mother Nature. Case in point: [...]

The barrage of posts we’ve recently published on the interior design of retail spaces has us thinking: Vancouver is a wide-open, largely untapped market for retailers looking to set up innovative and conceptually driven shops. With the exception of Dutil on Cordova Street, few have utilized creative or thematic merchandizing as a means of cultural [...]

Hotel Everland is a one-room traveling art and design project created by Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The hotel was initially exhibited on stilts at Neuchâtel Lake in Switzerland as part of the 2002 Swiss Expo and has since been displayed on the roof of Gallery für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Germany.
Open to the [...]

The company is Velib‘. Its simple, creative and expandable business model adds utility to any metropolitan area. Instead of taking a cab, bus or car, users of the service rent a bike from one of the multiple bike racks located throughout the city, then cycle to wherever they need to go. When the user is [...]

When it comes to AIDS and safe sex practices, many maintain the hopeful attitude that it will never happen to them. Whether drunk, stoned, or just in the heat of the moment, wrapping up before you drop in can be a hassle. For many that hassle turns into a life long itch, unplanned pregnancy, an [...]

The larger than life sculptures of Ron Mueck are currently on exhibit at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. The realism, emotion, and detail of his work is at times frightening. For more images check out this photo stream assembled by the Washington Post.

French photographer Denis Darzacq’s recent body of work, “La Chute”, challenges both gravity and perspective. His manifesto for the project reads:
“When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory. In the rough [...]