Our Italian correspondent talks with an Upper East Side ditz about what not to miss on the closing weekend of the Venice Biennale .

Tokyo Designers Week showcased an abundance of global talent.

The author and architect sheds more light on public-interest architecture

Insight from an architect invovled in design activism

The Spanish architect discusses his bridge in Israel as well as his project in New York.

Portland’s Gerding Edlen Development continues to break new ground in green development.

The winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge has a plan for Appalachia and it could be the design model of the future.

Buildings by Sullivan, Wright, Gehry, and Holl impacted.

There may yet be hope for Paul Rudolph’s modern masterpiece despite a recent vote against it

In the season of the commencement speech, Metropolis’ Susan S. Szenasy has advice for new grads: learn what it really means to connect.

An innovative project space in Berlin pushes the boundaries between architecture and art.

The former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil is carrying his message of sustainability to the world’s burgeoning cities. Lesson one: Get rid of your car.

Topaz Medallion winner Stanley Tigerman calls it like he sees it.

Inspired by Saarinen’s drive to “do more,” the young architects in his office reshaped postwar America. Today their approach to problem-solving offers important lessons.

For three decades Steven Holl has used watercolors—drawn each morning, before the deadlines kick in—as a springboard toward the creation of architecture.

In Japan a “sharp cone” answers a young family’s divergent needs.

An undulating design by West 8 gives Toronto access to its waterfront.

Why the long-gone Saarinen office is now more important than ever

After more than 100 years of indifference and indecision, New York’s most famous traffic circle is finally finished.

­Critics of the Museum of Arts and Design missed the real point of the building.

Kansas architecture students haul a prefab arts center across the state to a tornado-ravaged town.

For designers at work, only the best will do.

Freecom’s pocket-size storage device comes in a supple rubber case by Sylvain Willenz.

A vacation home on the Spanish coast uses tile as a decorative and porous surface.

Patrizia Moroso answers a few questions on industrial design, education, and inspiration—using her thumbs.

The aggregate total of customer deposits acts as an intoxicant.

An active crowd from the Florida design community gathered the evening of Thursday, July 24th for the awaited launch of Poggenpohl’s Porsche Design Kitchen P’7340.