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Rebuilding America
These 10 creative ventures – online, community-focused and commercial – are remaking American cities. They include museum-hotel founders, an Art Walk organiser and an entrepreneur creating websites for socially conscious citizens.
Design/Architecture
Floating homes on a man-made lake, a beautiful bamboo recyclable inflight food tray, and fine Finnish furniture.
Fashion
Summer prints for women and tailored shirts and jackets for men. Plus a new boutique in Houston, Texas, selling casual menswear.
Finnish beginning
Helsinki, the World Design Capital for 2012, is having a design renaissance. Officials, academics and designers are inspired to prove it isn’t stuck in the shade of its mid-century heritage.
Gehl force
Celebrated Danish architect Jan Gehl believes focusing city infrastructure on inhabitants' needs, not cars and concrete, improves quality of life. He advocates for a people-first approach to urban planning worldwide.
Coast story
Portugal’s second city, Porto, has great architecture and food, but the escapes along its coast truly give it quality-of-life credentials. Pack your trunks and head for the boardwalks.
The summer in culture
With those festivals and summer film releases upon us, here’s a hand with your artistic intake.
Master Planner – Jan Gehl
Danish architect Jan Gehl is improving quality of life in cities across the globe, taking the focus away from the car and putting it back on people, with pedestrianised streets and improved cycling infrastructure.…
Design/Architecture
A wooden radio handmade in Indonesia, a simple Greek island getaway, and furniture designer Jens Risom experiences a revival in New York.
