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Design Trend: Three Tips for Creating Mid-Century Style
http://www.homedesignfind.com/how-to-tip...ury-style/

EXCERPT: Mid-century modern has been a strong design trend for more than a decade now and yet, many of us still feel a little apprehensive when it comes to incorporating mid-century furniture into our own homes. Can we pull it off, or will it seem that we’re trying too hard? Will our homes look like homes or something straight off a Mad Men set? If this is your worry, one way to avoid the uneasiness of not knowing exactly how that Arne Jacobsen Egg chair or that Le Corbusier chaise lounge will work in your living room is to digitally visualize exactly how your home will look long before the furniture truck pulls up. EMFURN has made this task a lot easier with its online interior design services that allow you to do just that. Not only can you pick out your very own George Nelson Ball Clock, but you can see exactly how it will look placed over your fireplace. Looking to put together a mid-Century modern home? Keep these tips in mind...



The Unseen, Unappreciated Revolution of Industrial Architecture
http://www.archi-ninja.com/the-unseen-an...hitecture/

EXCERPT: To those outside the realm of design and architecture, industrial buildings rarely receive a second glance. Industrial buildings today are constructed purely for purpose — to store grain and shelter livestock or protect sand and salt from the weather, among other utilitarian intents. Typically large and lifeless, they are situated in landscape with disregard of surrounding design elements, natural or otherwise. Yet, it is this very brashness that makes industrial buildings at once so uninteresting and so utterly fascinating....



Issa Diabaté on His Work Reshaping Urban Africa
http://www.archdaily.com/777426/issa-dia...ban-africa

EXCERPT: In a video interview with BBC news, Issa Diabaté of Koffi- Diabaté Architects discusses the need for an improvement in the urban fabric of Africa, and specifically in the city of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, where he has been working for the past 20 years. “It’s not by building one house after the next that we will have an impact on the city…I feel that the architects of tomorrow, especially in African cities, need to become developers, to actually imprint his or her vision on the city,” he says in the video. “There are no better ways of integrating issues of sustainability or issues of density than by doing it yourself....”



Anchorage to Provide Permanent Housing for the Homelessness
http://www.planetizen.com/node/82307/anc...melessness

EXCERPT: Newly elected Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has unveiled a new plan to end homelessness in Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. It focuses on providing permanent housing over the next three years for 300 adults who are living on the street and in camps.....