Architecture
Metropolis Magazine
Outward Facing
In their conversion of a storage facility to high-end residences in New York’s West Village, CookFox Architects paid special attention to the outdoor areas and the neighborhood beyond.
2 min |
April 2018
Metropolis Magazine
Tower Of Power
Skylab Architecture’s Yard leads Portland’s east side into a taller future—and a citywide conversation.
3 min |
April 2018
Metropolis Magazine
Eclectic Luxury
Aurélien, a new residential high-rise in Chicago’s upscale Gold Coast neighborhood, hides a lot of gold-inflected drama behind its restrained facade.
3 min |
April 2018
Metropolis Magazine
A Tough Stance
At 50 years old, Boston City Hall is one of the most polarizing buildings in America. Building upgrades and revitalization plans hope to change that, but they mistake what the architecture stood for.
6 min |
April 2019
Metropolis Magazine
Don't Fight The Building
Andrew Zobler, CEO of developer Sydell Group, sees value in investing in history.
5 min |
April 2019
Metropolis Magazine
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.
5 min |