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Adorable Brick Habitats Are Mini Homes for Birds and Squirrels

Adorable Brick Habitats Are Mini Homes for Birds and Squirrels

When we spotted these adorable Brick Habitats at this year’s London Design Festival, we thought they looked awfully familiar. Upon further investigation it turns out we were right – we had see

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Urban Sprawl Repair Kit Offers Simple Plans to Fix Suburbia

Urban Sprawl Repair Kit Offers Simple Plans to Fix Suburbia

The suburban landscape consists largely of endless expanses of paved parking lots pocked with strip malls, gas stations, chain restaurants, and McMansions. Rather than razing these structures with the aim

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ReBurbia Favorite Notable Mentions

ReBurbia Favorite Notable Mentions

With voting on our top 20 ReBurbia finalists set to close in less than 8 hours, we’d like to take a moment to pause and consider some of incredible submissions that didn’t quite make the list.

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LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA DESIGN!

LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA DESIGN!

Reburbia voting closes tonight at midnight! Just in case you haven’t already heard about our Reburbia competition to re-design the suburbs, this is your LAST CHANCE to voice your opinion because

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Links Roundup of the Week: Reburbia, Reburbia, Reburbia!

Links Roundup of the Week: Reburbia, Reburbia, Reburbia!

Suburban sprawl has become the problem of our generation — that’s why we partnered with Dwell to sponsor, Reburbia, a design competition to re-imagine the suburb. We posted the finalists

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McMansion Wetlands: Transforming Foreclosures Into Natural Water Filters

McMansion Wetlands: Transforming Foreclosures Into Natural Water Filters

As the housing crisis wreaks havoc and suburbia suffers a critical blow from the credit crunch, what will become of all those foreclosed McMansions? Designer Calvin Chiu has proposed one solution that

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Mobile Mecha-Towers Take Suburbia by Storm

Mobile Mecha-Towers Take Suburbia by Storm

While several of the finalists in our ReBurbia design competition tended towards the surreal, a few futuristic entries took an approach that was downright dystopian. In Radial Erect-Urbia Michael Hughes

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REMINDER: Enter the ReBURBIA Design Competition!

REMINDER: Enter the ReBURBIA Design Competition!

CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS & ECO-EVANGELISTS! In case you missed it, last week we announced a design competition with Dwell Magazine called ReBURBIA: which asks you how you would redesign the

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ANNOUNCING…The REBURBIA DESIGN COMPETITION!

ANNOUNCING…The REBURBIA DESIGN COMPETITION!

THE FATE OF SUBURBIA IS IN YOUR HANDS! With the current housing crisis, the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, and rising energy costs, the future of suburbia looks bleak. Foreclosure signs are the new lawn

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