Cone Founded: The Abandoned Yuengling Ice Creamery
The Yuengling Ice Creamery not only helped the brewery survive Prohibition, it closed over a half-century after the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. D. G. Yuengling & Son bears the ...
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The Nature of Cities: Built Environments Win National Geographic Awards
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Retrofitting Ruins: Designer Turns 6 Abandonments into Modern Dwellings
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Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing
The United States currently has a shortage of about 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for households with incomes at or below the poverty level, a statistic that’s clearly ...
Pretty Abandoned: Tucson’s Lisa Frank Factory
The former Lisa Frank factory in Tucson, mostly abandoned and sporadically for sale since 2001, stubbornly refuses to give up the rainbow-colored ghost. Calling the Lisa Frank factory ...
Radiant Design: Tree Rings Spin Outward in Elemental Wood Dresser & Desk Set
Flowing out like the rings from the center of a tree, the veneers on this chest of drawers were carefully selected, perfected and oiled to create a remarkable effect. The lightening of ...
No Butts About It: Crows Cleaning Up Cigarettes at a French Theme Park
When an Amsterdam-based startup announced last year that it was training crows to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for food, the concept seemed a little ridiculous, but not because crows ...
