de.Sign [Architecture | Urban Design], New York | Mumbai is looking for Junior Architects with Revit knowledge for our Mumbai office located in Bandra West, Mumbai, India.
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The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in 1956. ‘Residents recall their utter joy when they moved in, not only at the plumbing but the warmth of community.' Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
The following is an excerpt from A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business, the book written by frog Founder Hartmut Esslinger in 2008. Hartmut and frog worked with Steve Jobs at Apple in the early 1980s to create the “Snow White” design language for the Apple IIc computer, and again in 1985 when Jobs briefly left Apple and started the computer company NeXT, where Hartmut and frog designed the NeXT Cube. In this passage from the book, Hartmut offers a glimpse into those tumultuous years for Apple and Jobs, and some insights into why the Apple CEO’s creative and strategic vision became so effective.
I think a proper study for the whole Sea Link project should be made public and be allowed to be reviewed and studied by all concerned and the citizens of Mumbai. The project is going to affect and alter the estuary, sea-life, mangroves and the entire Bandra waterfront - it's Environmental Impact and State's heavy-handed/top-down planning that exclude the "public" should be of paramount concern to those who care for this city. -Viren
'Change' for a Change: The euphoria for Change could also be disastrous sometimes..... It's also important to know what not to change..... For example, India's insatiable hunger for 'speedy and fast growth' could sacrifice 'slow and sustainable' development in favor of speed and 'efficiency' replacing 'what is good and works' for what is much less and not inclusive. Efficiency is not neccesarrily sustainable in every case; on the other hand Slowness may allow for an inclusive dialogue amongst various factions of the society and let them have a voice in shaping their collective future ....
Maggie Keswick Jencks in her beloved garden at home in Portrack, Scotland.
Maggie's centres: how one woman's vision is changing
cancer treatment
Maggie Keswick Jencks was a designer with a passion for gardens. As she was dying of cancer, she created the blueprint for cancer care centres that recognise how design can help recovery. Here friends and family recall a remarkable woman ....