June 17, 2022
Let's talk about the market's effects on the built environment.
As investors advise founders to plan for the worst and we all watch our Robinhood accounts taking a nosedive, it's worthwhile to anticipate what this could mean for our industry--both the challenges and the opportunities.
Will the tough coming year allow the best of proptech to shine, or will it eviscerate some much-needed innovation? Although Americans are (thankfully) not over-leveraged this time around, are we about to see a housing bubble burst? Will homes become more affordable...or less?
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MUST-READS
COOKFOX and Buro Happold Design Living Facade for the Birds and the Bees // Architect's Newspaper
The World's Most Environmentally Friendly Furniture Factory // Dezeen
5 Clever Ways that Malls are Being Reinvented Across the U.S. // FastCompany
The Anti-New, Local Mining, and Meta Nature: How We Can Design Our Way Out of Disaster // FastCompany
To Get to Net Zero, Ithaca is Making a Digital Twin // Bloomberg
Apple's RoomPlan API will Enable iPhone & iPad to Map Out a House // Apple Insider
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IDEA SPOTLIGHT
STUDIO by ROOM
You may know ROOM for its stunning phonebooth design. Now, the company has unveiled its new STUDIO by ROOM, the "world’s first construction-free workspace design studio". Although quite a few brands--RH, West Elm, and Bludot to name a few--have added design capabilities to their repertoire, this is the first product brand to tackle the future of work issue through internal design.
