BookBites: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future

Within fiction lies the seeds of powerful transformation and inspiration. Some of the most inspirational guidebooks are parables, including Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson and Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss. Both have inspired business visionaries, entrepreneurs and graduates for decades. Now stepping into this treasured category is THE ISLAND OF THE FOUR Ps: A Modern…

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How One Furniture Manufacturer Goes ‘Beyond Sustainability’

Humanscale, a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance ergonomic office products, demonstrates how one company’s leadership can set the example. When it comes to environmental impact, “‘less bad’ is not good enough,” says Humanscale’s founder and CEO, Bob King. “We took a look at our manufacturing and operational activities to understand our key…

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Green Living 

Renesa Architecture Studio spruces up a dilapidated structure to address the exigency of accommodating nature in living spaces. As the name suggests, Casa Green Lattice strives to be recognised by the textured mesh of green planters that constitute the façade of the new design intervention. Eclipsed in the concrete jungle of New Delhi, the original…

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Responsible architecture: New seismic hotel in Napoli!

Margot Krasojevic Architects’ ongoing dynamic seismic hotel in Napoli, Italy purports to minimize disaster during earthquakes… Italy has a long history of earthquakes and of late, they have been more frequent. This one-storey hotel for Gao Investment in the western province near Naples is being designed to contain and reduce the building’s destruction and fatality,…

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Recovering lost ground

“Nothing is lost; nothing is created; everything is transformed” is how L. McComberltée views the Juliette Aux Combles’ remodelling project that it has executed in Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, having transformed an ‘old-world’ attic into a stunning living space, brilliantly woven around a bookshelf. The attic, laid out on the third floor of a structure, dating…

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