“Why do we have to be here advocating for human decency and human dignity? It is utterly ridiculous and it is unacceptable,” he said. “And it needs to stop before there is a death. God forbid, if Mr. DeVane had panicked like a lot of people would and tried to close that...
making ownership even more out of reach for many. An influx of newcomers (some perhaps attracted by the Portlandia mythos, others escaping drought in California) has meant rental prices have become insane. A friend was renting an inner-SE basement apartment about ten years...
I’m also looking forward to visiting two new American cities in the fall (Washington DC for work, Chicago for pleasure). In the long term, I’m looking forward to the possibility of challenging my comfort zone and moving to a new city. It could be just what I need, even though it...
combined with rising college debt, keep people from making the move to one of the country’s historically magnetic cities, like New York. Forget Georgetown. More dramatically, there’s theheight restriction on all buildings in Washington DC,which gets a lot ofblame for that city’s rising rent...
Or, if you need internet for an apartment, check with the leasing office about available internet options for your home. Keep in mind that a neighbor’s opinion may be relatively uninformed or biased, and a leasing office may have ulterior motives when recommending an internet provider. Be ...
The sobering memorial for the Hiroshima atom bombing includes one of the only buildings that was left standing. Near the drawing of the building, I sketched the outline of a bottle that was twisted from the massive heat of the atomic impact. Nuclear power may earn an ongoing place in the ...
What else? John Pawson’s W hotel and residences in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa port, London Design Museum, and Life House/Tŷ Bywyd project for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture; Bjarke Ingels’ West 57th Street apartment complex; OMA/Shohei Shigematsu’s Faena Forum in Miami; and Annabelle ...