Portal to Sizzling Cities
CITIES around the world are sizzling – with urban design, the arts, green practices and smart technologies. Green News Update serves as a portal to cities worldwide that are booming […]
Category Archives: Art & Design
Cities: US Canada Europe 2016
This month we’re following the water in a half-dozen cities where waterfront redevelopment and new public space amenities are underway to revitalize post-industrial areas, piers and abandoned sites. Come along […]
Gift Books 2015 Our Pick of the Best
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2015. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science, history or memoir, […]
Gift Books for 2015: Coming Next Week
Our 2015 Holiday Round-up of books — to crave, see, read, give and keep –is coming next week in four installments! Photography — from phytoplankton to Hubble Telescope images Questing […]
Gift Books Coming: More to Read Now!
Books to give — and get –for Holidays 2015. Soon we’ll be posting dozens of current and classic works on photography, design, cities, natural history, science and more. If you’re craving […]
Students Build Solar Houses: Stevens Wins!
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ are crowing about their October 18 win at the 2015 US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon – they won first place […]
Cuba’s Waiting for You! Part I
There’s no single way to look at contemporary Cuban life, culture and the arts without understanding the contradictions, overlaps and influences that have existed for centuries– the powerful pull of […]
University Teams Build Solar Houses
Now underway: The 7th U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is underway in Orange, California, with 16 university/technical school teams from the US, Central America, Singapore, Germany, and Rome that […]
Cuba Photo Gallery: A Preview
Design Showcases and Events: Fall 2015
The fall season is on in the architecture and design world – with a slew of week- to months-long events in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, London and Eindhoven […]
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