Architecture
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Exhibition
Marimekko Moment
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March 2017
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A Hand In Tradition
At the Bentley factory in Crewe, England, technology enhances—rather than replaces—the brand’s history of artisanal craftsmanship.
3 min |
March 2017
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Ichiro Iwasaki
The Tokyo-based design veteran is a keen observer of the ways people work and create.
2 min |
Specify 2018: 50 Years of NeoCon
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Ghislaine Viñas
The designer brings her bright outlook to workplace interiors and products.
3 min |
Specify 2018: 50 Years of NeoCon
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WORKac
With ties to building and academia, the New York firm is forging a new kind of architectural practice.
7 min |
January 2017
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Architecture Lobby
All is not perfectly well in the world of architecture, and this advocacy group is looking to improve it.
7 min |
January 2017
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Jerry Helling
The president and creative director of Bernhardt Design has created multiple platforms to invest in young American and international talent, helping to kick-start the careers of dozens of designers.
4 min |
January 2017
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Anatomy - A View From The Switch
The designer of the Noon Smart Lighting System reveals the thinking behind the unit’s streamlined, DIY-friendly design.
2 min |
February 2018
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Materials Spontaneous Construction
The Bouroullec brothers’ new rug benefits from a special technique that ensures beauty and durability—and a bit of randomness.
1 min |
February 2018
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Hospitality - Creative Quarters
For its newest property in Chicago’s booming downtown, Ace Hotel makes art central to its design.
3 min |
February 2018
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Development - High And Tight
Cornell Tech’s towering 352-unit apartment building on Roosevelt Island sets a Passive House record.
3 min |
February 2018
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Back To Basics
Everlane’s new Soho flagship, the e-tailer’s first brick-and-mortar store, embraces its ethos of transparency.
4 min |
February 2018
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Retail - Lighting The Beacon
Edina, Minnesota, is home to a massive—yet somehow nondescript—living relic of architectural history: the first modern mall, Victor Gruen’s 1956 Southdale Center. Innovative at the time, the mall is inward facing, with stores contributing to a new kind of communal plaza. But today, at the Galleria Edina, another mall just across the street, a new Design Within Reach (DWR) store aims to break away from this inward-focused architecture.
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February 2018
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Architecture In A New Light
Built in 1986, New York’s 599 Lexington Avenue has been widely regarded as one of the famed architect Edward Larrabee Barnes’s greatest skyscrapers.
2 min |
April 2017
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Materials A Solid Refresh
DuPont Corian builds on a legacy of innovation with its biggest release of new colors.
1 min |
April 2017
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Rapid Response
Cultural institutions can often be imperious, even aloof. But the current “regime” change has galvanized them to pursue quick action.
5 min |
April 2017
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Social Connector
A new residential tower by Studio Gang fosters neighborly interaction through imaginative architectural form.
7 min |
October 2016
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The Beauty of Nothing
With technology derived from watchmaking, Vitrocsa’s structural glass systems help architects inch closer to the Modernist vision of invisible walls.
4 min |
October 2016
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Materials Curtain Wall
Shildan’s Fabrik rainscreen system is flexible in more ways than one.
1 min |
October 2016
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Materials Quiet Craters
A new acoustic lighting product brings multi functionality and an outer-space-inspired aesthetic to spruce up the workplace.
1 min |
June 2018
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Spectrum
An essential survey of architecture and design today
1 min |
June 2018
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Architecture
Flex Space
1 min |
June 2018
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Culture
Past the Post
1 min |
June 2018
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Development On Higher Ground
Nearly a decade after severe flooding inundated the University of Iowa’s campus, its music department is reunited in a new building by LMN Architects that is both a technological and civic asset.
3 min |
October 2017
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New Talent Studio Gorm
An appreciation of the beauty in an object’s true function drives the work of Studio Gorm.
3 min |
October 2017
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T Is For Talent
Metropolis showcased four emerging talents in a vibrant installation at NeoCon 2017.
2 min |
October 2017
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Is Fashion Modern?
On the eve of the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition on the past, present, and future of fashion, Metropolis VP of design Paul Makovsky spoke to MoMA’s senior curator Paola Antonelli about why she chose to put on a show about garments, why Bernard Rudofsky (who curated MoMA’s first show on fashion back in 1944) remains as relevant as ever, and the challenges of selecting fashion objects that have had a strong impact on the world.
6 min |
October 2017
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Float Studio
Adeptly avoiding the clichés so commonly associated with office design for start-ups, Float Studio instead creates spaces that capture each company’s founding essence—all on a tight budget.
3 min |
October 2017
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Lukas Peet
With an approach that synthesizes pragmatism and whimsy, Lukas Peet’s designs reconsider the complexities of lighting and how it fills a space.
3 min |
October 2017
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A Floor's Best Friend
A new coating by Armstrong Flooring harnesses the power of diamonds for added protection and beauty.
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