In this issue

NYCxDesign 2019 preview. Climate Change Initiatives for 2030. Singapore's Changi Airport. Architectural partners.

Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today.

1 min

Environment Trade-Off

There are nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City, and all of them— London plane trees, Bradford pears, lindens—are working every hour of every day to sequester carbon dioxide and capture stormwater.

1 min

Hospitality Vaulted Over

A new restaurant for a retirement community in England experiments with materials and typological precedents despite its small budget.

2 mins

Building Details Bogie Down

The new cultural hub designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro glides on a unique system of steel wheels, or bogies.

1 min

New Talent Circular Reasoning

New Affiliates creates visually pleasing design, but its most interesting work is cerebral.

2 mins

Productsphere Neocon Preview

We look ahead to the 51st edition of NeoCon, the annual trade show for commercial interiors.

1 min

History - New York Modern

The story of architectural Modernism in the city goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

4 mins

New Realities

A kinetic, “human-actuated” pavilion comes to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

2 mins

Nurturing Thoughtfulness

Wanted Design’s founders discuss why a platform for socially and environmentally responsible design is so important.

3 mins

Playing For Keeps

In the pursuit of design made to last, Fyrn’s Stemn collection—on view at ICFF this year— adopts a kit-of-parts approach.

2 mins

Can Building Sector Avert Catastrophic Climate Change?

Why the building sector may be humanity’s best hope for averting catastrophic climate change.

6 mins

How The Happiness Industry Has Hijacked Virtually Every Facet Of Contemporary Life

The Architecture of Happiness was a trite book published in the mid-2000s and mercifully forgotten. Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism, a new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, isn’t nearly as snappily titled, but as an enterprise, it is far more probing and curious. Curated by Francesco Garutti, the show explores how, after the 2008 financial crash, the “happiness industry”—comprising government initiatives, economic indices, and city rankings— hijacked virtually every facet of contemporary life.Metropolis’s Samuel Medina spoke to Garutti about happiness as a social project, the “cold intimacy” of Instagram, and architecture’s new spaces of meaning.

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