#rooftop-design

#rooftop-design

"The '15-minute city' model is based on the original concept of a city: having the things we want and need closer to where we live. The idea is that we should be able to get to our everyday essentials within, ideally, 15 minutes on foot, bike, or public transit."

Giles Duley's 'Distortion/Memory/Resilience/' invites the public into a penthouse at Sutton Tower to view his exploration of the human cost of war, running from May 12-24.

"I didn't change anything, I love it. These cubicles appear to me like remnants of bureaucracy and business models. It feels like we stumbled upon this place and found signs of life."

The spate of wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods fueled by manmade climate change that have plagued vast swaths of the country in recent years, are changing the housing industry.

'We understand design not as a passive product to be consumed, but as an active dialogue. Our DNA is about involving people so they don't just 'attend' an event, but literally take part in shaping it.'

Joe Macken revealed to his daughter that he'd made significant progress on his miniature scale model of New York City, a robust project to which he'd devoted the previous two decades. The handmade model is now housed at the Museum of the City of New York in an ongoing exhibition entitled He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model, located in the Museum's Dinan Miller Gallery.

Andreas Kostopoulos reactivates a 19th-century warehouse into Castor Place, a multi-use cultural venue designed to host an evolving spectrum of events, balancing preservation with a forward-looking spatial strategy.

'SubWave,' created by Ryan Webber, Gwen Goins, and Rafia Santana, draws from the rhythms of the East River, including waves synchronized with the passing subway, revealing forgotten histories along the shoreline.

House of Polpa, an edible structure about thirty metres long, resembles the house from Hansel and Gretel, made entirely of thousands of cans of Mutti Polpa.

The house, designed to resemble a South African beach house, embraces open-plan living while adapting to the unique climate of Kerry, where sun-soaked days are rare.

"Plants absorb water through their roots and release it as vapor through their leaves. This slight increase in humidity can make a room feel cooler and more comfortable, particularly in dry, air-conditioned environments."

Every day I ask myself, how did I go from a successful divorce lawyer to knowing 80 varieties of palm trees? If you had told me four years ago that I would be quitting a 12-year career as a lawyer to install and design gardens, I would have laughed.