Evan Orensten

Evan Orensten is interested in the intersections of COOL HUNTING's content categories, an accomplished cook, serviceable photographer and enthusiastic storyteller and globetrotter. He's the co-founder and Executive Editor of COOL HUNTING.

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Via nytimes.com

India’s Emerging Wine Industry

Nashik is the capital of India’s winemaking region despite being best known in the country for “onions and table grapes, farmer activism, and its many temples, including Trimbakeshwar.” Visiting Sula Vineyards, India’s …

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Scandinavia’s Successful Education Model

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Favoring a more comprehensive educational model that emphasizes humanistic and technical training, studies conclude that Nordic nations raise citizens that are intelligent (in the traditional sense), more internally aware, prideful for their …

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Via smithsonianmag.com

“Living” Concrete Made From Bacteria

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Developed by researchers at the University of Colorado, a new concrete alternative could provide a carbon-free option for buildings in remote places—where lugging traditional concrete ingredients proves difficult. Only two components—photosynthetic bacteria …

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Via designboom.com

Lisbon Triennale Surveys Ornament in Architecture

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The theme for this year’s Lisbon Triennale—”The Poetics of Reason”—poses the question of whether or not ornament is integral to architecture. Positioning photographs and up-close sculptural renderings of classical Victorian structures and …