Homestead Brooklyn: model creates urban forest in her NYC flat by Kirsten Dirksen on June 14, 2020 Summer Rayne Oakes moved to New York City as a model, not expecting it to be permanent, but 15 years …
Made to last: multi-purpose furniture adapts to use/age by Kirsten Dirksen on July 9, 2017 “Real estate in cities has gotten so expensive that anybody who has a bit of a high ceiling is trying …
P2P Brooklyn: from apartment to shared flat, restaurant/club by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2014 Adam Finkelman and Evan Garfield were veteran roommates of the New York City rental scene so when they discovered a …
Brooklyn crafted, impermanent house gets wiser with owner by Kirsten Dirksen on March 11, 2013 Tim Seggerman bought his Brooklyn home (Crown Heights) at an auction in 1987 for $140,000 (his down payment of $14,000 …
Home-within-home: $2K treehouse, tiny hut in Brooklyn loft by Kirsten Dirksen on November 25, 2012 Architect Terri Chiao knew she couldn’t afford the rent on a 750-square-foot Brooklyn loft without a roommate, but she didn’t …
Factorías-nicho de artesanos-hacker recuperan la industria by Nicolás Boullosa on August 15, 2012 Brooklyn, “borough” neoyorquino con pasado industrial con antonomasia, no se resiste a reconvertir los antiguos edificios industriales de ladrillo marrón …
3D printing and getting back in touch with our stuff by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2010 I went off to visit our future last month not really understanding how a sub-$1000 3D printer could revolutionize our …
Cargobikes as business tool: an ice cream trike in Brooklyn by Kirsten Dirksen on September 19, 2010 An ice cream truck is to the suburbs what an ice cream trike is to New York City. The logical …
3D printers or the dream of machines that replicate themselves by Kirsten Dirksen on September 18, 2010 Now that the open-source concept has migrated from software to hardware- see open-source car (OScar), phone (Openmoko), house (OS-house)- it’s …
3D printing living up to its hype? Rise & fall of MakerBot by Kirsten Dirksen on September 14, 2010 Imagine instead of going to the store, simply downloading what you need from the Internet and printing it out on …