A portrait of Danny Hillis, founder of the Long Now Foundation, and the construction of the 10,000-year clock.
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Teaching Old Buildings New Tricks
It’s alive!
San Francisco partnered with StoryCorps to record the history of the people in Bay View as a first step in the civic planning process.
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How Might We Cook in 2025?
Say hello to AI in the kitchen.
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Witness Trauma-Informed Design
Building shelters (and other institutional buildings) as cheaply as possible turns out to be way more expensive (not to mention cruel) in the end.
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2015: Never Too Late for Electric Cars
Props: Washington, Hawaii, California, and Oregon take four of the top five spots in EV market share among states. Behold: this year’s lineup of new electric cars available in the US.
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Rising Seas: Make it Bountiful
Rising seas are coming. This design challenge asks: Why not make it bountiful?
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Way of The Oregonian Shokunin
More than any other region in North America, Left Coast culture is influenced by Japan’s in ways both direct and indirect.
Left coast urban is different. So is our idea of an urban utility bike. See what the results of an urban utility bike design competition reveal about us.