Yesterday I received an email that I at first thought was a belated April Fools’ joke. The subject line of the message was “NLB calls for an end to artificial lighting.” The NLB, or National Lighting Board, is a lighting industry non-profit. So, it seemed a bit odd that it would be pushing for the
Monday was the grand opening of Van Alen Books, a new architecture and design bookstore and public reading room located at the Van Alen Institute’s headquarters at 30 West 22nd Street in Manhattan.
The non-profit organization Kids of Kathmandu, founded by Brooklyn-based furniture maker Andrew Raible and his wife, photographer Jami Saunders, intends to use photography, art, and design to raise awareness and funds for orphaned children in Nepal.
For all of the future LEED APs out there, The Princeton Review, in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council, has released The Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition, a free guidebook recognizing the nation’s most environmentally-responsible colleges.
We’ve been tracking the Soumaya Museum in Mexico city since it was very much a work in progress. Built to house the art collection of billionaire — and, according to Forbes, richest man in the world — Carlos Slim, the roughly $70-million project was designed by the mogul’s son-in-law Fernando Romero. It opened to the public on March 28th, and while Record will publish a full analysis in the near future, a few publications have already weighed in on the museum.
With one of the oldest preservation movements in the United States, New Orleans typically guards its architectural past closely, but the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School in the Tremé neighborhood is on track to join a few recently demolished exceptions.
London-based architect and artist Usman Haque presents his responsive environments and data logging site, Pachube, at the 2011 SmartGeometry Conference in Copenhagen.
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Adorable introduction