TECHNOLOGY Why A Robot Named Daisy Is Taking Apart Millions of iPhones As the world grapples with unprecedented levels of electronic waste, Apple is fine-tuning a...
Travel In Mexico, Sustainable Tourism with a Fashionable Sheen Oaxaca's hotel scene is buzzing thanks to a slew of stylish eco-forward openings in the capital,...
SUSTAINABILITY European Monuments Are Going Dark. Could It Be a Good Thing? Multiple cities across Europe are dimming their lights earlier than usual as an unprecedented...
SUSTAINABILITY Are Floating Cities the Solution to Rising Seas? The Maldives recently greenlit the construction of a floating community and a similar development...
TRAVEL Can the Hotel Industry Reach a Carbon Positive Future? Construction has started on Populus, a carbon positive hotel designed by Studio Gang in downtown...
SUSTAINABILITY A Nigerian Museum Addressing the Plastic Waste Crisis The Waste Museum in Ibadan City, Nigeria, billed as the first of its kind in Africa, will showcase...
Events Nespresso and Surface Host Sustainability-Themed Design Dialogues Café Talks Featuring some of the most influential names in the worlds of art and design, the conversations...
SUSTAINABILITY Is Vegan Leather Actually Sustainable? The use of vegan leather is a growing trend among brands trying to be more eco-friendly. While...
ARCHITECTURE The London Design Museum Is Visualizing the Consequences of Climate Change Thanks to a partnership with Snapchat, the institution enlists architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara to...
Business of Design Lab-Grown Meat is Coming to a Plate Near You Investment in cell-cultured meat products ballooned to $3.2 billion in 2020. Thanks to a group of...
SUSTAINABILITY Unpacking Miami’s New 40-Year Plan Against Rising Sea Levels Miami releases the Stormwater Master Plan, a comprehensive guide that outlines how South Florida...
Sustainability A Sustainable Design Marketplace Where the Mission is Buy Less An e-commerce platform whose goal is to get you to buy less stuff? As implausible as it might seem,
Design Dispatch Working From Home Could Lead to a Housing Emissions Crisis, Royal Institute of British Architects Warns In the U.K., RIBA is cautioning the government that the increase in people working from home will...
TRAVEL Announcing The Finalists for The 2019 Surface Travel Awards From hotels to headphones, New York to the Maldives, these are the candidates for the best new...
Architecture Ho Chi Minh City’s Central Park Steps Into The Future On what was once a set of 19th-century French railroad tracks, Ho Chi Minh City's revamped Central...
DESIGN DISPATCH LVMH Invests in German Eyewear Label Mykita, and Other News Plus, Central Park gets a new rec center and Amazon enters the smart glasses arms race.
CULTURE CLUB Celebrating 70 Years of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art On Oct. 29, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art held its annual gala at Rockefeller Center’s
DESIGN DISPATCH Vogue Makes History With Marc Jacobs as a Guest Editor, and Other News Plus, an I.M. Pei-designed office tower goes to auction and the Pérez Museum receives a major...
DESIGN DISPATCH Glossier Lands a Fragrance Marketing Slam Dunk, and Other News Plus, Fendi plans a splashy centenary celebration and StockX announces a leadership shakeup.
DESIGN DISPATCH Takashi Murakami Gets Into Fashion, and Other News Plus, Philip Lim steps down from his namesake fashion brand, and a Gen-AI version of St. Peter's...