Reading Is Fun-Damental by Raul Barreneche - 06/01/2008
A recent spate of cookbooks tries to get children to eat their fruit and vegetables by disguising them in well loved foods. Take The Sneaky Chef, with its recipes for Covert Quesadillas, hiding sweet potatoes and carrots; Barbell Burgers, surreptitiously containing spinach and oat bran; and other deceptively healthy meals. More
Mancini Duffy Wins Accolade for Community Center by Nicholas Tamarin - 08/12/2008
Architecture firm Mancini Duffy has won the 2008 Outstanding Project Award from the Greater New York Construction User Council for its Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center.
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To The Manner Born by Paul Young - 08/01/2008
"Drama seems to follow my family. We've certainly had our share of tragedies," Honor Fraser explains in an accent that betrays her posh London schooling. The retired fashion model is a Scottish royal, a Fraser of Lovat to be exact, with a 900-year ancestry full of lords and ladies, tartans and bagpipes, fighting and infighting.
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Drive, She Said by David Sokol - 08/01/2008
Perhaps because she didn't pursue her passion until later in life, Linda Pace threw herself into the art world with a fiery intensity. Between her decision in the late 1980's to collect, fund, and create art and her death in 2007 from breast cancer, the San Antonio–based Pace Foods salsa heiress transformed herself into one of the most influential women in contemporary art—it was he...
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Royal Flush by Susan Welsh - 07/01/2008
Imagine the scene: Local officials working on a regeneration plan are discussing a new public toilet for a parking lot. "I know!" says one. "Let's devote $590,000 to this toilet and make it a real architectural point of interest." Sounds like fiction, but that's more or less what happened in Gravesend, a dowdy commuter town 25 miles east of London.
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O Say Can You See by Aric Chen - 07/01/2008
Jonathan Alger designs exhibitions. But you won't find him fretting about how to hang paintings. A founder of C&G Partners, a successor firm to the renowned graphics studio Chermayeff & Geismar, Alger works in a more interpretive and interactive mode. And his clients range from the Museum of American Finance in New York and the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles to the Smithsonian Ins...
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On the Road Mark McMenamin - 06/23/2008
Burn rubber with the best of them as cycle-centric design overtakes hotels, museums and boutiques.
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Design Green Penny Bonda, Eco Contributing Editor, September 4, 2008 LED Magic Gets Mundane
Who among us was not dazzled by the lighting displays at the Beijing Olympics? Th... More
Design Green Emily Pilloton, Eco Contributor, July 27, 2008 Designs for Dignity
So much of interior design caters to those with robust checkbooks, but here's an ... More
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