Up Homes Customizable Houses

Modular units come together for a residence built upon sustainability

Whether you’re imagining a 500-square-foot escape or a four bedroom primary residence, Up Homes offers a solution. These aren’t modular homes as you know them. Rather, co-founders Libby Zemaitis and Blake Goble developed a system of—in essence—250-square-foot building blocks. Each unit can be combined to maximize both light and space, in as many ways as one can envision. Their proposed prototype measures 1000 square feet, …

Personalizing the Workspace with Perch

A new one-stop shop for design-driven goods, from tape dispensers to affordable hardwood desks

Our workspaces are, oftentimes, the least beautiful spaces in our lives—it’s easier to run to a gigantic chain store (and actually meet the project deadline) than consciously setting up a desk that will bring tiny vibrations of joy every time we sit down. But for an area we spend so much time in—almost as much as we sleep—it sorely needs more attention. A new go-to …

Range Rover Sport’s Inferno Downhill Challenge

In Switzerland’s stunning Bernese Alps sits the Schilthorn summit—almost 3,000 meters high. Home to the world’s longest downhill ski race—the Inferno, which was first held in 1928—this is one serious mountain. Land Rover enlisted race car driver Ben Collins to race the Range Rover Sport down the Inferno, over all kinds of terrain (ice, snow, mud, rocks, asphalt and more) at gradients up to 75% …