apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

• Shigeru Ban's designs for the westside's Metal Shutter Houses condominiums. Nine duplex apartments that can be opened to the elements (Westside Highway).
  
• The opening of CB2 in SoHo is now scheduled for late Ocotber (originally scheduled for Labor Day weekend).
  
• New work from Memphis-founder Ettore Sottsass at Chelsea's Friedman Benda gallery.
  
• MoMA's symposium to help preserve Russian Modernism is on Sept. 28 and 29.
  
• David Rockwell's paper and felt-like wall-coverings for Maya Romanoff.

(Pics: DBOX, Erik and Petra Hesmerg, Richard Pare)

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