May 2008
86 posts
Opening: Muji Flagship - Dwell Blog - dwell.com →
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Detroit is probably the last place on earth a Muji store will ever get opened [sigh]. I guess I should just hope for Chicago - it’s only five hours away and my sister lives there.
“How much time do you spend at home? Enough to know that beyond the size, or location, the design of a domestic setting affects your mood and sense of wellbeing. So while harnessing emerging technologies, addressing the changing demographic, grappling with new economic imperatives, addressing sustainability and being a good neighbor its worth keeping in mind how it feels to come home.”
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Their 909 house makes my heart go pitter-patter. I first got interested in modern family homes when I saw it featured in Metropolitan Home magazine back in the early nineties. It’s still one of my guideposts for the home I’d like to have.
“A Woonerf in the Netherlands and Flanders is a street or group of streets in a town or city where pedestrians and cyclists have legal priority over motorists. Under the Dutch traffic code, motorised traffic entering a woonerf or “recreation area” is restricted to a speed limit of “walking pace”.”
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Woonerf (via lamidesign)
That’s excellent!
Flickr: lifebegreen's Photostream →
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Great photsets here of many different slick green and modern homes.
“We now realize that how we design the built environment may hold tremendous potential for addressing many of the nation’s greatest current public health concerns, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma, injury, depression, violence, and social inequities.”
—Dr. Richard J. Jackson, The Impact of the Built Environment on Human Health: An Emerging Field | Via Slow Home.
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