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Just like Madonna and Michelle Pfeiffer, the peace symbol is turning 50 this year. When an icon turns that age, you can start making some judgments about whether it has what it takes to endure. Madonna? Hanging in there. Pfeiffer? We’ll see. But the peace symbol–it’s 50 years young and going strong.

Unless you’re homeless, Ben Stiller or a young Richie Tenenbaum, you’ve probably never attempted to stay the night at a museum.

But starting today, you can make a reservation to stay in a hotel—a hotel with only one room—smack dab in the middle of the Guggenheim.

Since Batik has been gaining more exposure followed by ethnic tribal trend safari chic look, several designers are using Ikat print in their 2008 Spring Summer collection.

Vertical farms may not be as practical as green roofs, but the idea of food being grown right in the city doesn’t get any more local than this. New York magazine asked four architects to dream up proposals for a lot on Canal Street and Work AC came up with this.

Humankind continues to repeat the mistake of strewing waste into common spaces (no pun intended) without a thought to the consequences, leaving costs we don’t want to pay today for the future generations. The FAS article spurred curiosity, leading us to find even more spectacular video and potential solutions to the problem.

This year at the Milan Furniture Fair, apparently there was so much to feast one’s eyes upon! At the main Salone buildings you could see how mainstream design is reacting to the growing demand for sustainable design and, although not everything is rooted in green, there were definitely some eco-gems.

Philippe Starck announced last week that he will retire in two years. But he also took the opportunity to savage the entire idea of design, and to express regret for many of the designs which have made him so famous.

Defining the pervasive monotony of the modern, Japan’s arts and crafts work asserts a persistent attachment to the elements and to the Earth.

In all cultures of the near east, the pomegranate has always been seen as a symbol pf fertility, fecundity,and thus prosperity. In the Kabbalah, (Jewish Mysticism) the pictorial motif of the tree of life and its repetitious multiplication in the carpets, prior of having a decorative function, it represents the expansion of an important idea,