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Not your typical landscape photography: slide shows of new work by Eirik Johnson (above), Joel Meyerowitz, and Robert Adams

In Denver, 17 artists embrace Daniel Libeskind's controversial museum addition

The Brave New World lamp, by the design firm Freshwest, is pinned together by wooden pegs and counterbalanced by blocks of iron.

In Copenhagen: the Butterfly Bridge

A slide show of innovative parking garages, coinciding with the new House of Cars exhibition in Washington, D.C.

35 artists and designers (and one supermodel) remake the classic Vipp trash bin for a charity auction.

From London Design Week, the Size 0 chair by Andy Martin--an intriguing homage to Gio Ponti's 1957 Superleggera chair

Is the death of American design greatly exaggerated?

The legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at 98. Here's a slide show of some of his most remarkable images.

MOS's "weird furry factory" at P.S1--the thatch-covered pavilion uses the chimney effect to draw cool air through the space.

A new L.A. restaurant, Street, designed by Neil Denari takes its inspiration from street culture.

Herman Miller's new Setu chair has a "kinematic spine"--inspired by the human backbone--that supports the sitter’s weight and gently forces the body into proper position.

SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima designs "her most complex shape so far"--a curvy concrete apartment building with nooks and crannies for semiprivate gardens.

Sweden's Monica Förster design the first task chair custom-made for women's unique sitting style. (Women tend to perch on the front of their seats; men slump.)

Hiromichi Konno designs the Rin chair for Fritz Hansen. The simple, futuristic form took four years to refine.

The Berlin-based art director Mike Meire curates an exhibition of street-food carts at the Vitra Design Museum.

Emerson College professor Eric Gordon wins a MacArthur Foundation grant for his innovative use of Second Life in community planning meetings.

Gyula Kosice's HYDROSPATIAL CITY, a fascinating exploration of space architecture 25 years in the making, goes on display June 7 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The Japanese furniture giant ITOKI launches a boutique American operation at this year's ICFF. Whether they can succeed in this economy is another matter.

In Japan, the LAYERED HOUSE dispenses with walls in favor of stepped floors and narrowing apertures, creating a more nuanced division of space.

ROSS LOVEGROVE teams up with Artemide to produce the Cosmic series of digital light fixtures--the metallic, tessellated skin is like that of a large, amorphous sea creature.

The legendary 81-year-old French furniture master PIERRE PAULIN designs a new collection of upholstered furniture for Ligne Roset.

Antler Chic Alive and Well in Vienna
A new exhibition at the MAK traces the history of animal materials in furniture design, from 19th-century Alpine hunting lodges to the present.

MUJI enlists James Irvine and Konstantin Grcic to reinterpret two classic Thonet chairs. (Above: Irvine's take on Thonet's curvy No. 14, which was first produced in 1859.)