Shear Perfection

One designer hopes to revive a once-profitable Dutch wool industry by drawing on local inspiration.

Materials Private Life

Carnegie’s Panorama privacy curtains use innovative manufacturing methods to offer better aesthetics and performance in health-care spaces.

Building Details Light Relief

USG–Ceilings Plus’s design for a biomedical company auditorium keeps its users in mind, sparing no functional—or aesthetic—capacity.

Made Opening Number

Preludia, the new contract collection designed by Brad Ascalon for Carl Hansen & Søn, is anything but one-note.

Building Details Screen Saver

Terra-cotta cladding brings durability, color, and contemporary style to the University of Michigan’s newest building.

Metropolis Thinktank

Building Resilience From the Ground Up

Exhibition

Marfa Comes to California

Book

Designing Women

Retail

Now You See It

Ancient Modern

A contemporary project by Emre Arolat takes a bold approach to historic preservation by suspending a 21st-century hotel over the ruins of a late-Roman metropolis.

Solar Salutation

The form of Jeanne Gang’s newest apartment tower tells you where on the planet it is.

Paint The Town Red

In San Antonio, David Adjaye completes a new art gallery that takes its cues from regional referents.

Color And Light

Metropolis breaks down the spectrum, revealing how designers grapple with light across scales and typologies.

On The Waterfront

A new Brooklyn development makes peace with the East River.

True Blue

In Focus Lighting’s work, color plays a supporting role, enlisted in the service of a wider narrative.

Ancient Modern

A contemporary project by Emre Arolat takes a bold approach to historic preservation by suspending a 21st-century hotel over the ruins of a late-Roman metropolis.

Paint The Town Red

In San Antonio, David Adjaye completes a new art gallery that takes its cues from regional referents.

True Blue

In Focus Lighting’s work, color plays a supporting role, enlisted in the service of a wider narrative.

Connecting The Dots

Technology promises more connectivity than ever before. A brilliant case in point is Bluescape, a forward-thinking visual collaboration technology from Haworth that makes authentic, productive interactions easy.

Haworth: A History

From its modest beginnings, Haworth has grown into an innovative business that touches the lives of people around the world with its interiors and technology products. Chairman emeritus Dick Haworth and chairman Matthew Haworth recall some of the milestones in the company’s 70-year history.

Materials Murano Memories

Artistic Tile’s Fiammato pattern combines a centuries-old Italian technique with modern precision.

Building Details Level Up

An office tower is integrated with its surrounding landscape through an increasingly popular use of a classic building product.

Hospitality A Suite Escape

Foster + Partners transforms a Modernist municipal building in Hong Kong into a gleaming hotel, reconnecting it to the metropolis.

School Of Thought

In Camden, New Jersey, a new Perkins Eastman– designed nursing school refuses to turn its back on the city’s reviving center.

New York

In New York City, Perkins+Will engages local activist groups to help shape the future of historic waterways.

Mexico City

The 2018 World Design Capital may be home to world-class, cosmopolitan design, but its architectural community is coalescing around a new mandate to help those in need— both in the core and on the periphery.

Mumbai

Case Design builds a school in India using the kind of architectural process that it believes is possible only in Mumbai—thoughtful, iterative, and craft-led.

Windy City Wunderkind

With a passion for environmental graphics, Joe Lawton has built a thriving practice at the intersection of branding and the built environment.

Design For Aging

Globally, the rate of growth for the 60-and-over population has surpassed that of every other generational group. This presents both an enormous design opportunity and a daunting challenge. In this section, we review diverse strategies and perspectives in the developing conversation around designing for aging.

Design For Aging-Community

On New York Citys Lower East Side, a new development is rebuilding a community that was lost 50 years ago.