Tag: Less Is More - Page 6
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Bloomberg Does Not Announce Design Competition for Tiny Apartments. It's a "Request for Proposals".
If only it really was a design competition. It's not. Why not drop the RFP crap and do the real thing?
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"As If From Nowhere" Hides Table and Chairs In Plain Sight
Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces
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"Miner's Shelter" At Taliesin West Is a Tiny Gem
A tiny retreat in the Arizona desert by a Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Student
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Tiny Modern Seaside Hut Built On Sled So That It Move With Shifting Sands
Here is a great way to deal with changing shorelines: build on skids so that you can be towed out of the way
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Hacker Hostels: Incubators With Ikea Bunkbeds
Housing is expensive in Silicon Valley; these high-tech B&Bs are a place to start
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Small is Sexy: Lessons from European Cities
Australian architect on what he learned while travelling in Europe.
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Micro Compact Home Dropped By Helicopter Onto Site in Switzerland
You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.
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Lessons From The Past: Joey Roth Designs Planter Using 4,000 Year Old Tech
It doesn't get lower tech than this, yet Joey's new planter is a looker as well as a worker.
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Mobile Hospitality: Designed To Celebrate and Enjoy Public Space
Going beyond the food truck and the sausage cart, a mobile kitchen that sets up in seconds and takes back the streets
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St Hubert Residence Is A Subversive Renovation
A prize-winning demonstration of how to squeeze more stuff into a small area
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Buy Your Own (Official) Hobbit Hole
A small family business is selling replicas/interpretations of the homes made famous by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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A Place For Everything In The Tiny Shrine By Sigurd Larsen
It's like a little house for all your little stuff. It even has a secret room.
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When Typography Saves Paper and Ink. About Gulliver, Century Gothic & Ecofont
What saves more resources; condensed type faces or fonts with holes? I spoke to typography designer Gerard Unger about why the ecofont is a bluff and about how typography can really save paper and ink.
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Mobile Office is A Private Workspace Among The Din
It is part of a trend toward "Indoor Shedworking."
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New Modern Housing In Downtown Toronto From MODERNest Breaks The Traditional Real Estate Rules
It used to be, every new house in Toronto was a faux Victorian. Not any more.
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We Love Tiny Houses and Apartments, But 16 Square Feet Is Just Too Small.
It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing
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Naked Value. 6 Things Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Resources, Innovation & Competition (Book Review)
A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.
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Clever Desk Design Assembles In Seconds, is Held Together With Ratchet Straps
For people in a hurry and on a budget, ratchet straps are all the rage.
