Design
Architecture Is Tough! Will Architect Barbie Help More Women Become Designers?
Forget her non-black dress, or the fact that her hard hat doesn't match her shoes. Can a doll really change the way girls think about their future?
Cities
How L.A.'s New "Farmers Field" Football Stadium Could Boost Urban Agriculture
L.A.'s new stadium will be named Farmers Field. What better opportunity to create a massive urban agriculture project for the city?
Design
The Design Difference: How You Can Propose Ideas for Brownsville
In the final piece of our series, we report on the proposed ideas for an underserved urban neighborhood and show how designers can get involved.
Design
The Design Difference: Using Design to Conduct a Problem-Solving Workshop
In the second part of our series, we share the process and tools that helped a group of designers create ideas for an underserved urban community.
Design
The Design Difference: In Brownsville, Enormous Urban Challenges, and Hope
How can design help create change in New York City's Brownsville neighborhood? The first in our three-part series on The Design Difference.
News
Crosshairs and Targets: Innocent Symbols or Incendiary Iconography? [Updated]
A map that placed crosshairs over Gabrielle Giffords's Congressional district raises issues about inflammatory political rhetoric.
Design
Year in Review 2010: Crazy, Outrageous, and Just Plain Ridiculous Buildings
Let’s look back at a year of wild and wacky architectural achievements—from the super-size to the super-tall to the super-expensive.
Design
Year in Review 2010: Humanitarian Design
During the past year, designers worked harder than ever to solve problems with a societal impact. Here's a look at their challenges and triumphs.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: OK Go's Interactive Urban Romp
OK Go marched 8.5 miles through Los Angeles for a new video, and they're hoping you'll do the same in your city.
Design
There's a Newspaper Being Made, Right Now, in a Museum
A team of journalists and designers is producing a newspaper inside the New Museum. It explores concepts about local information and public space.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: desigNYC Pairs Designers With Nonprofits
The pro bono design program desigNYC wraps up its first year and is looking for a new crop of designers and nonprofits.
Design
GOOD Design Bay Area: Solving Six Urban Problems
We matched six design teams with six urban problems and held an event where they presented their solutions to the city. Here's a recap of the evening.
Design
Glass House Conversations: A Virtual Debate Based on a Real Place
The recently-launched website is a way to bring legendary salons held in the modern house to an even wider audience.
Design
Evil People Live in Modernist Houses in Popular Films
Ben Critton asks why popular films insist that a preference for modern architecture signifies something cold dubious about your character.
News
The Rise of the Bus-Riding Celebrity?
Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser rides public transit in Los Angeles and does not own a car. Why don't more eco-minded celebrities take the bus?
Design
Ads for Imaginary Buildings Highlight Lack of Real Development
Hypothetical Development places architectural renderings for imaginary, never-gonna-happen places on vacant, dilapidated buildings in New Orleans.
Design
A Competition to Transform 9,600 Aging U.S. Buildings
Metropolis wants you to redesign a building to have zero environmental impact. The winning idea could be used in 9,600 structures.
Design
There's a "Ground Zero Mosque" In Every American's Backyard
Let's turn this sudden interest in urban planning into a call to get involved at the neighborhood scale. As an architecture and urbanism writer...
