Escape Roundup: Hip Hostels (Apartment Therapy)
These days, it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a design-conscious hostel and budget-minded boutique hotel. Some places think of themselves as hostels, but call themselves hotels, while others call themselves hotels, but operate more like hostels. It’s all a matter of price and amenities...
Design:Made:Trade Round Up (Design Files)
Filling an important niche as Melbourne’s ‘indie’ trade show, D:M:T is always a mixed bag, and this year was no exception.
Wieden + Kennedy Portland Office (Wanken)
Impressive before and after photos of an abandoned-warehouse-turned-corporate-headquarters in Portland, OR. The massive office building holds several hundred employees and multiple organizations.
Urban Vitality + Mixed Use Dev't (Sustainable Cities)
Mixed-use developments have been gaining ground as a successful planning design strategy to increase transportation options, revitalize local economies and enliven communities.
Solar Panels Have a Cooling Effect? (Inhabitat)
It turns out that solar panels can do more than provide you with renewable energy - they can significantly cut down the power needed to heat and cool your building as well.
Colorful Kuwait Hotel (Dwell)
The interior design of a Kuwait hotel gets seriously daring with the use of color.
Vancouver to End Homelessness (Planetizen)
The city of Vancouver is planning to offer more than $42 million in land and capital grants aimed at developing affordable housing. Its part of a 10-year plan to end homelessness in the city.
The Colour of Cities (Yurbanism)
I’ve noticed that various cities each have a unique colour palette that contributes to it’s underlying urban terroir. Here are the results for some major cities.
Considering a Car-Free LA (Planetizen)
After surviving Carmageddon, LA has caught a glimpse of the city with less traffic and carbon footprint and it’s tempting to want to make it a sustained reality. A car-free California may be too ambitious and premature but it isn't stopping some groups from initiating a movement.
What billionaires do when we're not looking... (Inhabitat)