Naha Harbor Diner sits perfectly on top of a massive Gajumaru, Japan, tree’s huge branches about 20 ft above the ground and looking out over the ocean.
The restaurant which is accessible by both a spiral stairway and an inbuilt tree trunk elevator specializes in locally grown and organically harvested foods brought straightaway from the farms. [...]

Architects: Denys Lasdun & Partners, 1961-67.
Early 60s saw a rather unusual brief glimpse of something akin to ‘Modern Baroque’, which even today appears a bit odd. During this period a huge investment in the expansion of Universities was taking place. It is possible that the invigorating traditional University Town architecture and the reaction to post-war [...]

A building that I also liked for its architecture, not Dutch but modern.
David Childs, Daniel Libeskind, Michael Arad, and others have been at the center of attention as they continually redesign the components of the World Trade Center site. The scrutiny they face is immense, and no one knows that better than Chicago architect Carol [...]

Everything’s going green these days, and the toy world is no exception. Perhaps appealing to our guilt at the amount of plastic we consume as toy fanatics, a growing crop of collectibles attempts to balance the extraneous and the ecological. Just because you live in the city doesn’t mean you can’t grow a garden. I [...]