Young couple transforms old Loire cave in unique home/rental by Kirsten Dirksen on January 2, 2017 Alexis Lamoureux was looking for affordable housing for himself and his girlfriend Lotte van Riel when he rediscovered his great …
Owner-built Atlanta Glass Treehouse floats among hardwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on December 25, 2016 When the financial crisis hit in 2008, architects Mary Clare DeReuil & Carlos Tardio were without work, but determined to …
Tracks of an old Frontier shepherd life: Great Basin Basques by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2016 “What is a Basque?,” asked Orson Welles in his 1955 television travelogue. “All we know for sure is what a …
Viking era’s wooden Norse church in shape after 800 years by Kirsten Dirksen on November 27, 2016 With the conversion of Norway to Christianity (beginning around 1000 AD), wooden “stave” churches were built across the countryside. Over …
Artist builds his Savannah studio with shipping containers by Kirsten Dirksen on October 23, 2016 Architect, artist, designer Julio Garcia had been designing plans for shipping container homes for a decade before he found the …
Nootrópicos: entre la potenciación mental y la pseudociencia by Nicolás Boullosa on October 6, 2016 Música para estimular la conciencia plena, libros de autoayuda para aumentar el rendimiento intelectual, dietas y suplementos para mejorar la …
FarmBot: open-source backyard robot for automated gardening by Kirsten Dirksen on September 26, 2016 In the front yard of Rory Aronson’s San Luis Obispo home (that he shares with 9 roommates), a robot is …
nicolás boullosa by Nicolás Boullosa on September 23, 2016 Writer, journalist (UAB —Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain— 1999), founder of *faircompanies. Nicolás Boullosa (Barcelona, Spain, 1977), is a journalist, writer, and …
Big Easy’s shotgun: cross-ventilated narrow houses stay cool by Kirsten Dirksen on August 28, 2016 Since the 1830’s shotgun houses (AKA shotgun shacks, shotgun cottages, shotgun huts, “long houses”) have been popular in New Orleans. …
Furniture meets robotics: superpower to show/hide what’s used by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2016 Robotics-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Hasier Larrea wants to give furniture superpowers. In response to rising rents and populations in global cities, he has …
