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Impeccably renovated Charleston mansion asks $7M
Curbed - Megan Barber
A four-floor spiral staircase anchors the design Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d
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Pristine white house is wrapped in glass
Curbed - Liz Stinson
So soothing You’ve got a couple options when you live in a glass house: Bare it all for your neighbors to see, or get yourself a fence. The Hofmann House in Valencia, Spain, takes the latter approach.
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This startup is on a mission to make home renovations easier
Curbed - Diana Budds
Block is offering a one-stop renovation shop, starting with bathroom remodels While home renovations are exciting transformations, they’re also a daunting process, often plagued with cost overruns and
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Drawing
A mind-bending M.C. Escher exhibition designed by Nendo
Curbed - Liz Stinson
What’s the art and what’s the exhibition design? Had M.C. Escher been alive in 2018, he almost certainly would have been an Instagram star. The Dutch artist, who is known for his perspective-bending optical
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How a Midwest startup generator bursts the Bay Area tech bubble and solves real problems
Curbed - Patrick Sisson
Invanti, a startup generator in South Bend, Indiana, sees being different as a competitive advantage Launching a technology incubator in a mid-size Indiana city might strike some as a challenge. It can
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6 tips for wrapping the perfect present
Curbed - Megan Barber
The essential guide for holiday wrapping There are two types of people during the holidays: People who use gift bags and those who wrap presents. And while there’s certainly nothing wrong with a festive
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The 17 best kids’ books about design and cities
Curbed - Megan Barber
The top picture books from 2018 Each year, a new crop of children’s books hits the shelves, promising to enrich the lives of both parents and the kids that read them. But every parent has at least a few
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Country house on 59 acres blends old and new for $683K
Curbed - Megan Barber
The home uses a post-and-beam frame from 1783 Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love
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This Brutalist masterpiece is now a gorgeous coworking space
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Sign us up When Belgian architect Constantin Brodzki designed the headquarters for the CBR concrete company in 1967, he couldn’t have fathomed its ultimate fate. The Brutalist Brussels icon, known for
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Glass lake house appears to float on water
Curbed - Liz Stinson
So serene Mecanoo, the Dutch architecture firm behind Denmark’s futuristic train cars and the New York Public Library’s pending renovation, recently completed a smaller scale yet still striking project—a
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Why voice assistants don’t understand people who stutter
Curbed - Kevin Wheeler
We’re talking to more robots—but the technology leaves behind people with speech differences When Apple released Siri in 2011, Marc Winski was excited. Here was a new way to play songs, make phone calls,
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The single-family rental industry is starting to consolidate
Curbed - Jeff Andrews
OwnAmerica’s sale to Renters Warehouse last week will bring end-to-end services to smaller investors The single-family rental (SFR) space has undergone a dramatic transformation since the housing bust
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Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation
Curbed - Diana Budds
Along with Rep. Cedric Richmond, Sen. Warren introduced a House companion to the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America’s
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Green New Deal
As cities confront climate change, is density the answer?
Curbed - Patrick Sisson
Plans to increase urban density may foreshadow how cities respond to efforts to cut emissions Last week, climate change found many ways to inch into the news cycle. In Washington, D.C., hundreds of young
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‘Glass tray’ observation deck now open in Thailand’s tallest building
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Don’t look down Skyscrapers today appear to be built as much for tourism as they are for actual business. The designs, perfectly calibrated to look cool on camera, caters directly to archi-tourists, with
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Historic ski chalet on last large parcel in Squaw Valley asks $15M
Curbed - Megan Barber
Own a piece of ski history Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve
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New 3D printer takes the mess out of ceramics
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Nobody has to know a robot made it The great promise of technology is that it will make our lives easier. And when it comes to making ceramic home goods, that’s proving to be absolutely true. A new 3D
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You can buy this tiny treehouse shaped like a pinecone
Curbed - Megan Barber
Dozens of windows offer forest views Treehouse architecture is both fascinating and whimsical, a harkening to the joys and nostalgia of childhood. Modern treehouses, however, go way beyond a rickety retreat
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How architecture can overcome its relevance problem
Curbed - Diana Budds
In a new book, Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena shows how design projects can be oriented in the context of broader societal needs Chileans have an expression for telling the ultimate hard truth
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The rise of the architect-developer
Curbed - Diana Budds
A closer relationship between architects and developers is unlocking creativity in the built world In the Irish Channel area of New Orleans, 12 new homes cluster on a former warehouse site. Angular, covered
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‘Energy-efficient design can be simple’
Curbed - Samantha Weiss Hills
An Indiana couple builds their eco-friendly dream house on 8.5 acres In 2016, Kelsey Johnston and her husband Tyler had committed to leaving their home state of Indiana for California. Both Hoosier natives
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All-black home addition hides playful shapes and colors
Curbed - Liz Stinson
It’s full of fun experiments Black exteriors are enjoying their moment in the limelight. From charred wood to painted concrete to solar arrays, moody facades are proving to be the perfect combination elegant
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Tiny concrete cabin makes a cool off-grid getaway
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Get a dose of nature and Brutalism all at once There’s nothing like concrete to make a person appreciate the natural world. Maybe it’s the manmade nature of it, or the hard angles, but a little Brutalism
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Bold minimalist cottage, designed by Marcel Breuer, up for auction
Curbed - Megan Barber
The hillside structure uses stilts to “float” above the landscape Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your We’d
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Luxembourg is first country to offer free mass transit to all
Curbed - Megan Barber
A plan to reduce traffic and help the environment Urban traffic is an ongoing problem for many of the world’s cities. On an individual level, traffic is frustrating. But collectively, cars in jam-packed
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Scooter City
Curbed - Patrick Sisson
How Santa Monica, the birthplace of dockless electric scooters, is shaping the multibillion-dollar industry A year ago, a warehouse filled with rows of electric scooters might have seemed a little dorky,
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Yes, please, to this terrazzo made from recycled materials
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Terrazzo gets an eco-friendly update Here at Curbed, we’re not immune to the charms of terrazzo, the suddenly ubiquitous material made from chunks of marble or stone set into concrete. From trendy restaurants
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The weighted blanket now comes in a chunky knit variety
Curbed - Liz Stinson
Like a hug, only heavier No product is better suited for 2018 than the gravity blanket. The hefty throw, which piles somewhere around 20 pounds of extra weight on top of you while you sleep, became a of
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Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian can be yours for $1.6M
Curbed - Megan Barber
Large windows look out onto vast stone terraces Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d to
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West Coast home prices are primed to drop. Here’s why.
Curbed - Jeff Andrews
Median listing prices have dropped, sales prices could follow The West Coast has been home to some of the hottest housing markets in the country over the last five years, with Denver, San Francisco, San