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NYC payphones may have seemed obsolete for the past ten years or so but Hurricane Sandy showed us that they still play a very important role in times of disaster (reports say that usage of public phones increased during and after the
Tom Dixon’s London Underground has arrived at New York Design Week and his design team has transformed the secret basement theatre on Bleecker Street with a Luminosity show, a subterranean broadcasting station from Surface magazine, a pop-up shop from Fab.com
Sawkill Lumber has just announced the 12 designers who have been selected to participate in the first ever 12 x 12 design exhibition this spring. Debuting at Design Week in May this year, the exhibition will feature twelve unique pieces of furniture created
Calling all New York furniture designers! Third Ward, Build it Green NYC and Sawkill Lumber Company have launched the 12 x 12 design contest, a unique opportunity to repurpose a piece of New York’s past. Twelve lucky designers will be chosen to recycle
Registration for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition that will take place at Freshkills Park is now open! In its partnership with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation, the competition will seek one exciting design for
Thanks to our massive 24 hour public transportation system, it’s easy to live a car free life in New York City — and many of your InhabitatNYC editors and writers do just that. But sometimes, like when we want to escape the city or purchase a new couch or
Here at Inhabitat, we are well aware of the budding designers in New York City — after all the Big Apple in home to some the best design schools and design shows around. So what better way to show your design chops than by entering GreenHomeNYC’s Green Design
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Back in March, we reported that a sustainable shipping container market will be popping up in Downtown Brooklyn this summer. Now that summer is here, the temporary market is underway and vendors are beginning to plan out their
To celebrate the official launch of InhabitatNYC, we’re giving one lucky reader an iPad 2 and an awesome eco-friendly iPad case from Treegloo!
