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Bowery Boys’ Greg Young on the weird, wild relationship of U.S. presidents and New York City
American presidents and New York City have always had a special bond
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Architect David Rockwell pulls curtain back on designing for the stage
The Tony Award-winning New York architect and designer talks to Curbed
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The Curbed Appeal
A podcast for people who live places
Airbnb, housing, transit: Kim-Mai Cutler on the Bay Area’s affordability crisis
A tech writer and housing policy advocate talks to us about race, class, and the region’s entrenched housing inequality.
Interior designer Nicole Gibbons is Oprah-approved
Gibbons talks to us about her famous boss, her career trajectory, and being a black woman in an often racially-exclusive industry.
The transit and infrastructure issues we're not talking about this election
Curbed’s Urbanism Editor talks living in L.A. car-free and advocating for dense, transit-friendly cities
Herman Miller archivist Amy Auscherman on the midcentury craze and what Mad Men got wrong
Amy Auscherman has the job design nerds dream of: archivist for furniture powerhouse Herman Miller. Amy joins the Appeal hosts to chat about what an archivist does, why the company needs one, and how the notoriously careful set designers of Mad Men once got it wrong.
For architect of National Museum of African American History and Culture, it's personal
Phil Freelon, one of the project’s lead architects, talks to Curbed about designing both a building and a symbol
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit on virtual reality, typomania, and Olympic architecture
The acclaimed mind behind "Helvetica" talks to Curbed about virtual reality in documentary cinema, post-Olympics infrastructure, and how his first feature-length film made typeface lovers out of laypeople.
The Curbed Appeal podcast returns on September 15
Curbed’s podcast, The Curbed Appeal, returns for its second season next Thursday, September 15, with special guest designer Karim Rashid. If you missed the first season of the podcast, here is everything you need to know.
How Architecture and City Planning Can Combat Social Inequality
Architect/author/professor Vishaan Chakrabarti is, despite everything, optimistic.
How to Curate a Design Fair: An Interview With Sight Unseen
The founders of online magazine Sight Unseen, Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, tell us about OFFSITE
How a Preservation-Minded Architect Respects the Past While Designing For the Present
This week's podcast guest is Brent Buck of Buck Projects.
Smart Homes Could Help Us Reach Previously Unheard of Levels of Laziness
In this week's episode of The Curbed Appeal, we're talking home tech.
Why Panic Rooms Are Going to Outlast the Pyramids
Geoff Manaugh, author of "A Burglar's Guide to the City" talks to Curbed about architectural crime, vault and safe design, and the best heist movies out there.
Architectural Renderings Are Probably Lying to You
In this week's podcast episode, we sit down with Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange to talk about how much we should trust architectural renderings. (It's not much.)
Times Square Isn't That Bad, Says Natasha Jen
On the fourth episode of Curbed's podcast, The Appeal, we sit down with the award-winning designer to talking signage, fonts, and more.
Get to Know Justina Blakeney, L.A. Designer, Pattern Master, and Instagram Phenom
If you're not following Los Angeles-based Justina Blakeney—designer of interiors, textiles, wallpaper and more—on Instagram, you're missing out.
The Curbed Appeal: Episode 2 With Family New York
In this episode, we talk to Family New York, the firm behind New York City's planned +Pool, the giant volcano on Kanye West’s "Yeezus" tour, and more.
The Curbed Appeal: Episode 1 With Guest Daniel Libeskind
Our first episode features guest Daniel Libeskind, the architect famous for master planning the new World Trade Center site in New York City, designing the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and many more projects.