Innovators in Design 2013
Doctors on Long Island performed an unprecedented surgery earlier this month: They replaced 75 percent of a man’s skull with a new 3-D printed thermoplastic material shaped specifically for his head, the first-ever 3-D printed skull implant in the United...
While the 1.8 million one- and two-person households in New York outnumber the city’s studios and one-bedrooms nearly two-to-one, Brooklyn-based architecture firm nArchitects, one of our Innovators in Design, proposed a bold new solution: My Micro NY, an...
Imagine being on vacation on a cold winter’s day and arriving at your hotel, using a smartphone to unlock your door, and finding your room toasty and warm, heated exactly to your taste. This futuristic vision is a reality at Seoul’s Hotel Skypark Central,...
The Library of Congress, the mammoth intellectual institution created to support Congress’s fulfillment of its constitutional duties and “further the progress of knowledge,” made an interesting acquisition in February: “Emoji Dick,” New York-based...
Much has been said about Superkilen, but what it is exactly is hard to define. The kilometer-long expanse of color-blocked pinks, reds, and oranges in Copenhagen’s ethnically diverse Nørrebro neighborhood is part playground, part outdoor exhibition, part...
The tradition of the white cube emerged out of reverence for the artwork — static blank walls don’t detract from the main event — but how does one fill a space when the artwork is invisible? That was the challenge proposed to Diller Scofidio +...
On York Boulevard in Los Angeles’ trendy Highland Park neighborhood, city officials early held a ribbon-cutting ceremony early last week for the city’s newest park — or parklet, to be more precise. For those unfamiliar with the term, the difference...
Just last month, Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Netherlands-based Universe Architecture addressed the world with a modest proposal: to 3-D print an entire building in the shape of a Möbius strip, the mathematical form that conceptually consists of a single...
