Metropolis Magazine
From the August 2010 Issue

The Thrill of Science

Blog

The I.D. Legacy Lives

The magazine announces the winners of its 2010 Annual Design Review.

Q&A: The Streets of San Francisco

Planner Andres Power talks about pedestrianizing the city.

Design Giants Turn to the Crowd

Continuum, IDEO, and frog design test the waters with crowdsourced design.

Places that Work: II, The Rookery

What one 1888 Chicago interior teaches us about our rooms, our selves.

Accessibility Watch: Retrofitting

The Future of Accessible Living Gets a Boost from an Amended ADA.

A Teachable Moment

Why not use Katrina's anniversary as a national discourse on sustainable development in a time of climate change?

Americans bring their "can-do" approach to Venice

The curators of the U.S. Pavilion set out to provoke a global conversation at the Biennale.

Accessibility Watch:Two Decades of Living with ADA

Where are the beautiful, useful products for those who really need them?

Design Principal Celebrates his Staff

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Pollack Architecture's leader looks forward.

Magazine

Random Acts of Architecture

By combining classic modernism with a less predictable approach, the San Francisco– based firm Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects creates the ultimate art collectors’ house.

Great Good Places

New restaurants that look like they’ve been part of their neighborhoods forever all share a subtle but ambitious social agenda: to create and celebrate community.

House, Interrupted

An experimental addition pays curious respect to a dilapidated farmhouse outside of Vienna.

At Home on the Water

A Dutch team’s floating buildings shed their ties to the land.

Breaking News!

Democracy Now!’s new offices become the first broadcast facility to achieve LEED Platinum.

Design + Policy = Fit Cities

Creating a metropolis that encourages physical activity requires real collaboration.

Too Virtuous

The latest Triennial is long on good intentions but short on sex appeal.

Going Green

A varied selection of sustainable materials

A Better Box Lunch

Black + Blum’s elegantly constructed container makes brown-bagging it a luxury.

The Eustachian Restaurant

It’s a desperate attempt to avoid confronting the solemn act of eating: the violence involved in the killing of living things and the brutish discharge of biological need.

Events

Registration Deadline: September 23
Submission Deadline: October 6

Smart Environments Awards

Through September 9

Before They Were Parks

The Arsenal Gallery, New York City
Through October 26

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

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2010 Metropolis Conference Videos Now Online

This year’s ICFF conference featured a cast of “design entrepreneurs” who are reinventing their practices through creative approaches to the new economy.

New Products
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TOTO’s New Luminist Lavatories

TOTO, which was founded in Japan in 1917 to produce toilets and other vitreous china products, has grown to be the world’s largest plumbing products company

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