by Mariela | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
In an animal loving office, we felt a dog house was a great design exercise and an excellent way to raise funds for a charity that we strongly believe in. It was also a fun and exciting experience for us. We had a great time collaborating with Danny...
by Mariela | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
Kowloon Walled City is one of the most fascinating and extreme examples of human settlements I have ever read about. It is more cramped and crowded than any pre-law tenement house I know of. Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, ungoverned settlement in...
by Mariela | Sep 12, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
Greta M. Grossman (1906 – 1999) Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) maintained a prolific forty-year career on two continents, Europe and North America, with achievements in industrial design, interior design and architecture.In the late 1920s Grossman...
by Mariela | Sep 12, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
Andre Balazs, to convert JFK’s historic TWA terminal into a hotel and conference center “The Eero Saarinen-designed terminal will be transformed into a hotel and conference center, along with food and beverage offerings, retail space, a spa and fitness...
by Mariela | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
‘A house is NOT a machine to live in,’ Eileen Gray The Wall Street Journal recently detailed the complex history of E-1027, the house which Eileen Gray designed in Southern France. The article discusses how one of the 20th century’s most important...
by Mariela | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog, Kiara News
Billboard in Lima, Peru Harvests Drinking Water Out of Thin Air “According to the UN, about 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities within the next 8 years – a human migration that adds more and more strain on cities’ sanitation and resources. One...