Donna Karan Gathers Help for Haiti

The Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week opened Thursday, Feb. 11, with New York’s designers focusing their attention on this high point of the season. But in the midst of the hustle and bustle before the week opened, Donna Karan rallied people from the fashion, art, music, and entertainment industries to hold an auction to [...]

Urban Farming in Detroit

Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit
Reporting from Detroit -On the city’s east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.
Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to [...]

MAD architects: fake hills

chinese firm MAD architects have sent us in images of their 2008 ‘fake hills’ project.
their design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of beihai,
on a long, narrow waterfront site. the concept combines two typologies that most
commonly define residential developments in china: high rise towers and long, low rise
blocks. the result [...]