My wife and I have visited our share of wellness centres over the past few years, partly for her physical therapy needs after her stroke, partly because we’re both interested…
I never used to pay much attention to how museum spaces were designed until I started taking my kids to them regularly. Before parenthood, I’d walk through exhibits focused mainly…
You know that feeling when you walk into an old building and something just feels… right? Last month I found myself standing in what used to be a 1920s textile…
The smell hit me first – that unmistakable hospital cocktail of antiseptic and anxiety that seems to seep into everything. I was visiting my friend Maria after her gallbladder surgery…
Okay, so I’ve been seeing these photos on Instagram lately of high-rise buildings that look absolutely nothing like my sad pre-war brick box, and I had to dig into what’s…
Okay, let me just say this upfront: most college campuses feel like depressing concrete bunkers where happiness goes to die. I know because I spent four years on one, and…
When I first started reading about something called biophilic design a few years back, it struck me as one of those fancy terms for what my grandmother’s generation knew instinctively.…
I’ve been following this designer’s work documenting how nature-focused design transforms nursing homes, and honestly, it’s made me think completely differently about how our environments affect our wellbeing. Living in…
Last Tuesday I was grabbing coffee at my usual spot in Capitol Hill, watching yet another crew install what looked like half of Home Depot’s HVAC section on a new…
Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot about fabrics lately, which is honestly not something I expected to care about when I first moved to this tiny studio. But after…