We’ve learned about a lot of great events focusing on green design lately around the city recently, and just learned about one more.
CBT Architects – whose office is a beacon in a sea of sports bars across from the TD Bank Garden – is hosting CBT Green Day 2010. The name is a bit of a misnomer, [...]
Live Architecture Network is an organization that directs global workshops on digital design and fabrication in architecture for academic and client-based projects. LAN brings their workshop to Cambridge next month for “Architectural Response: Time, Tech, Tectonics”.
Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts in economies and culture can occur extremely rapidly; climatic [...]
From a consortium of handmade designers, to a single designer — handmade Monday has a dramatic range of scale.
Albertine Press is a Somerville-based, letterpress print shop run by Shelley Barande, “a sometime-architect who just loved paper more.”
Albertine Press’s first specialty is as a custom design and print studio. Shelley designs and creates custom save the [...]
Le Corbusier was a pioneer in modern architecture, urban planning, and, of course furniture design. But there’s one thing that, through all of his research, writing, and belief in “a machine for living in” that Le Corbusier overlooked: Children.
From spring cleaning sales at a local studio to semi-annual sales at a national retailer, this is a good week for deals. Know of a sale coming up that we should mention? Let us know!
JHill Design & Jill Rosenwald Spring Studio Sale – pieces as low as $5. Through 3/6.
Karianne, a DesignBoston reader that works at Suffolk University’s New England School of Design, just tipped me off to a great, green design event happening today!
Design for the Environment 2010 is NESAD’s 4th annual green design trade show, featuring 26 local, national and international design companies, with an aim at showcasing their best, most environmentally-friendly [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I took a walk around Charlestown with my camera. I walked along the Mystic, from the Charlestown High School playing fields down to the Navy Yard, taking photos of everything and anything that caught my attention (which is a lot).
After a couple hours of walking and shooting, my camera warned that battery exhaustion [...]
At SHIFTBoston, we saw the top 20 ideas presented by the expert panel, but what about the other 122 proposals? At least one firm is very proud of its proposal, and believe it would make a great addition to the city’s infrastructure.
Boston is a walkable city. I can vouch for this reputation, having walked from [...]
How much do you love the MBTA? Enough to display the map in your bathroom? If so, Izola Shower has your solution.
The Izola MBTA shower curtain is made of translucent PVC-free PEVA and has the full MBTA map — both subway and commuter rail lines — shown. It’s a playful display, depending on how often [...]
