Notes from Metropolis
By Susan S. Szenasy
Soon a national memorial will be built in the Pennsylvania hills. Will it reflect our place in history?
Observed
In Production
By Mireille Hyde
Joost Alferink reveals the finer points of WAACS’s Senseo Coffee Pod System for Philips.
America
By Karrie Jacobs
If proposed cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development go through, it could be 1975 all over again.
Portfolio
By Kristi Cameron
Brooklyn-based Lite Brite Neon Studio playfully subverts the
perception that neon is tacky.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Our irrepressible columnist takes an irreverent look at the legacy of architecture’s most famous (and irrepressible) gadfly.
Perspective
By Steven Heller
Redesigning a design magazine presents a whole slew of unique challenges.
Materials
By Laurie Manfra
SmartSlab LED panels flaunt superior graphics for everything from small-scale interiors to billboards.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
A selection of innovative new lighting.
In Review
By Rick Poynor
Is the S,M,L,XL treatment the best way to talk about human rights?
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
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At the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg weren’t afraid to make a mess.
By Eva Hagberg
When archrivals begin sharing a Munich soccer stadium, it will be the glowing facade that lets fans know who’s up.
By Andrew Yang
Work has begun on a huge project in South Korea. KPF looks to plan and build a $25 billion town of 100,000 people—in ten years.
By Peter Hall
Richard Sapper—designer of the legendary Tizio lamp—has created a new task lamp, the Halley, using LED technology.
By Lara Kristin Lentini
The new Airbus A380—which dwarfs the Boeing 747—is Europe’s huge, high- stakes gamble on the future of international air travel.
By Virginia Gardiner
A survey of some fresh Italian talent, including Cino Zucchi, Cliostraat, Altro_Studio, and Metrogramma.
By Kristi Cameron
Helsinki—a place that sees just three hours of daylight in winter—embarks on a lighting plan for the entire city.
By Jade Chang
The recent restoration of a Neutra house uses the master’s original drawings to satisfy the current craze for more space.
By Laurie Manfra
From the patenting of the incandescent lightbulb in the nineteenth century to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of light-emitting polymers (PLEDs) in 2000, new technologies have long challenged designers to refine the task lamp.
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