Observed
In Production
By Mireille Hyde
Diego Rossi and Raffaele Tedesco’s Agave suspension lamps for Luceplan.
America
By Karrie Jacobs
Organized by artist Annette Polan, Faces of the Fallen reminds us that the soldiers who’ve died in the post-9/11 wars are worth remembering.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Exploring the New York waterfront in a kayak reveals lost worlds.
Materials
By Paul Makovsky
Solar control systems regulate incoming light and heat—and can add a great deal of character to building facades and interiors.
Enterprise
By Ken Shulman
After years of steady growth and shrewd acquisitions, Haworth sets its sights on a new challenge: creating a company-wide culture of design.
Portfolio
By Kristi Cameron
Kevin Landers makes art from the everyday.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Tools for customizing the workplace.
In Review
New and notable books on architecture, culture, and design.
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
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By placing sales and engineering inside its colossal 737 assembly hangar, Boeing looks to integrate office suite and factory floor.
By Phil Patton
Zaha Hadid’s new BMW plant brings office workers into dramatic contact with the cars they sell.
By Metropolis Staff
A roundup of textiles debuted at NeoCon—by the likes of Bruce Mau and Shashi Caan—challenge the staid contract market.
By Jade Chang
In an L.A. architect’s modern barn, storing hay becomes a symbolic act.
By Eva Hagberg
A pair of OMA alums apply their research-oriented thinking to a smaller, more intimate scale.
By Peter Hall
In the wake of dwindling support from corporate partners, Don Chadwick continues his own blue-sky quest into new materials and forms.
By Fred A. Bernstein
Preservationists face a daunting task in New Canaan, where a collection of Modernist houses is likely to remain forever vulnerable—and off-limits.
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