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SPACE10’s New Headquarters Is Very Community-Centric

Design Milk

New additions, including a public library with a take-a-book-leave-a-book system, foster an environment that’s conducive for community exchange and creative ideation. The gallery area will host two exhibitions a year, with this year’s The Ideal City 2040 installation currently on view through spring 2023.

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A Vertical Campus Reshapes the Boston Skyline  

Azure Magazine

While in 2012, buildings were considered sustainable if they met LEED standards, Boston University was pursuing the ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. PHOTO: Nick Lehoux The architects also focused on increasing access, in a move they describe as giving the public realm back to the students.

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The Current Crisis Makes it Clear: We Need a New Deal for Affordable Housing

Azure Magazine

Instead, with inclusionary housing – market-rate projects that include a percentage of affordable units – there is less resistance, and less public sector funding required. “It cities have declared racism a public health emergency. (BANANA stands for “build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.”)

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Turner Duckworth rebrand of Pennington Biomedical aims “to shift perceptions”

Design Week

Turner Duckworth has unveiled its rebrand of Pennington Biomedical, as the research organisation pushes forward with its mission to eradicate obesity by 2040. A part of Louisiana State University (LSU), Pennington Biomedical researches obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia.

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

His writing appeared in a variety of design journals and publications, and he guest-edited three seminal issues of the academic journal Visible Language, all focused on design history. “He The second was a Time magazine article: it predicted that by 2040, the United States would be a majority-minority country.

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Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in August

Design Week

Upcoming episodes will feature founder of materials research design studio Ma-tt-er Seetal Solanki and in another climate change-focused episode, the director of climate documentary 2040 Damon Gameau. Socially-distanced cities.

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Interface® Considers Design + Sustainability at Every Step

Design Milk

Public health is affected as well – not just for future generations but for today” said Chip DeGrace, Interface Director, Design Purpose. As designers, we are aware that embodied carbon, or the carbon that is associated with the making of products, is responsible for 11% of greenhouse gas emissions.