Tag: Curbed

The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Caroline Chen, Keri Bertino, Ann Friedman, Allison Williams, and Brian Payton.

Like only our own laundry to do and no one to complain about the wallpaper we want to put up in the bathroom, for starters.

One of the last pieces of wilderness on Staten Island might get bulldozed.

Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.

Companies have re-coded their appliances to capitalize on men’s entry into the kitchen, and they’ve taken their stereotypes with them.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Aly Raisman, Joseph Williams, Jenna Wortham, Mayukh Sen, and Sirin Kale.

Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Roxane Gay, Katherine Heiny, Alexandra Starr, Dionne Searcey, and Anna Silman.

Big economic anxieties, writ small.

Mystery brunette and GQ correspondent Taffy Brodesser-Akner rented and rented, until a bad experience with a New Jersey landlord and a fit of financial security convinced her and her husband it was time to commit to homeownership. Now for the hard part: Choosing paint colors without having a complete existential breakdown. Akner details her taupe night […]

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In 1990, a group of activists and legislators fighting for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gathered on the steps of the Capitol to make a statement. Writing for Curbed about the act’s 1990 passage and its impacts over the last quarter century, Patrick Sisson details how the group dramatized the difficulties faced […]

Four stories about architecture and design: the Urban Death Project, the materials we use to build, designing for the blind, and creating spaces in video games.