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This all-white house will set you thinking. A study in white by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos draws a parallel to life as the interior of an apartment is treated like a white canvas with minimalist art. Check it out here…

Do you think that white is the best colour to augment pared-down design elements? Check out this penthouse in Madrid by A-cero design and leave us your views…

Design firm ShroffLeon refurbishes a South Mumbai sea-facing apartment with diligent interventions that result in more spacious rooms, luxurious bathrooms, minimised circulation space besides making the apartment airier, filled with light, and most importantly, white! Read here

Why do you think a black-and-white scheme is a resounding success, always?! Read here and leave us your views…

What is it about the black-and-white colour palette that at once attracts and holds fast to one's sensibilities? Check out Ar. Igor Sirotov's latest monochrome offering and leave us your views...

Via Sociological Images (by way of the Economic Mobility Project) is an interesting chart showing downward class mobility among blacks and whites. Each bar represents the percentage of children who end up in the bottom fifth of income earners by race and income of the parent:

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."- John F. KennedyThere's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual.The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the narrative that, for the first time ever, Americans will likely end this year with either a woman or a black man headed for the White House. Bloggers are telling stories from the front lines of primaries and caucuses that look like something from the early 60s - people lining up before dawn to vote in Manoa, Hawaii yesterday; a thousand black college students in Prairie View, Texas marching 10 miles to cast their early votes in the face of a county that tried to disenfranchise them. In recent months, we've also been gobstopped by the sheer passion of the insurgent campaigns of both Barack Obama and Ron Paul, both of whom brought millions of new voters into the conversation - and with them, a sharp critique of the status quo and a new energy that's agitating toward deep structural change.There's something implacable, earnest, and righteously angry in the air. And it raises all kinds of questions for burned-out Boomers and jaded Gen Xers who've been ground down to the stump by the mostly losing battles of the past 30 years. Can it be - at long last - that Americans have, simply, had enough? Are we, finally, stepping out to take back our government - and with it, control of our own future? Is this simply a shifting political season - the kind we get every 20 to 30 years - or is there something deeper going on here? Do we dare to raise our hopes that this time, we're going to finally win a few? Just how ready is this country for big, serious, forward-looking change?Recently, I came across a pocket of sociological research that suggested a tantalizing answer to these questions - and also that America may be far more ready for far more change than anyone really believes is possible at this moment. In fac

The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems

Faces from the Great Crash of 1929 and its aftermath are haunting the 21st century. Wall Street brokers fleeing the trading floor in panic, or putting their cars on sale because they are suddenly broke, appear in old black-and-white photographs beside analyses of the current state of the markets composed by sombre authorities. Not only the collapse of confidence that shattered investors 82 years ago but the long years of misery that followed now seem to call out to us, to warn us, to show us a truth that is urgent and immediate. Can this really be so? Can that nightmare history be repeating itself?

In a recent interview, Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith shared with me one of the most mind-numbing statistics I have ever heard: According to the Alameda County Health Department, a black child born in West Oakland will, on average, die 15 years before a white child born in the hills of Oakland.

Ofist's all-white Victorian designed home in Istanbul

LUKSTUDIO's folding arcade, the U Concept Gallery is a simplistic and engaging space of white walls and arched openings, tangled with a wooden volume that together compose a memorable spatial experience. Take a look as it unfolds here…

Promoting #relaxation and #rejuvenation in a classic ambience that spells comfort from the word go, is #TheWhiteDoor nail and #beauty #salon in suburban #Mumbai designed by #MinnieBhattDesigns. Check it out here….

Ippolito Fleitz Group designs a trendy pizza lab and bar in Stuttgart, using the eponymous White Monkey as a playful mascot! Check it out here and leave us your views…

In his second installation involving architecture and domesticity, renowned @jeanvervillearchitecte explores opposition between black and white producing optical effects that oscillate between reality and abstraction. Check it out here

Do you think glamour should have a place in a healthcare facility? @maheshpunjabi designs a dental clinic with a touch of opulence. Check out the story here and leave us your comments

Architecture_Interspace successfully transforms an old French house in the heart of the White town area in Pondicherry into a chic dessert studio in a tiny span of 12-days! Find out more here...

There is beauty in simplicity - the 'Topaz of Braye' by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is a white wonder, sailing on deep, blue waters.