Observed
America
By Karrie Jacobs
MoMA’s exhibition on security illustrates the difficulties in mounting contemporary museum shows.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
A visit to Hadid’s latest project—a museum addition to the Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen—produces some uneasy feelings.
Next Generation
By Laurie Manfra
Envisioning architecture that performs like natural organisms.
In Production
By Mireille Hyde
Ricard Vila’s Otto Desk for Do+Ce
Materials
By Mireille Hyde
GKD Metal’s latest product is part textile and part media display.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
The latest products and interiors bring together disparate items in unexpected combinations.
In Review
By Alexandra Lange
Is MoMA’s worshipful approach to objects appropriate for security?
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
|  | By Sam Martin
Talking to Pliny Fisk III—one of the pioneers of the sustainable-design movement—is both inspiring and confounding.
By Phillip Lopate
When architects put themselves into the same category as art personalities and ignore in every way that their art touches the world, it’s not socially responsible. It has a bad physical effect.
By Hans Ibelings
Traditionally buildings are used to give meaning to the city. I think that role can increasingly be assumed by landscape.
By Martin C. Pedersen
Remember the Kyoto Protocol? This unprecedented agreement supported by 156 countries set limits on greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.
By Paul Makovsky
John Thackara, former director of the Netherlands Design Institute, has spent the past decade championing smart design with a conference series, Web site, and global network—based in Amsterdam and Bangalore—called Doors of Perception.
By Anna Holtzman
We’re looking for a way to redesign our community that’s sustainable, liveable, and supportive of health—but also of dreams.”
By Stephen Zacks
In 2000 I stumbled upon a book titled The Architecture of Empowerment: People, Shelter and Livable Cities on the disorderly bookshelves of Metropolis and was immediately captivated.
By Jennifer Kabat
“I don’t ever talk about this,” says Jonathan Ive, attempting to describe the deep working relationship his team has developed over the years. “I don’t think anyone would understand.”
By Jade Chang
This city is a collection of little neighborhoods, a blanket of networks. It’s better to do things in little steps.
By Fred A. Bernstein
When he moved from London to New York in 1982, David Burney says, “You could count the number of good new buildings in this city on the fingers of one hand.”
By Kristi Cameron
When John L. Knott Jr. talks about Noisette—his project to redevelop 3,000 acres in depressed North Charleston, South Carolina, over the next 20 years—he doesn’t sound like a man preaching a radical mission.
By Marc Kristal
Dimagi—the name of Vikram Sheel Kumar’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, medical software company—means “smart guy” in Hindi. So it’s interesting that so many of the 29-year-old CEO’s smarts come down to good sense.
By Mason Currey
If someone asked you to describe the contemporary American workplace, intelligent is probably not a word you would use.
By Bill Hinchberger
The street where he grew up evokes fond memories for Jaime Lerner.
By Peter Hall
David Rockwell helped create the phenomenon of destination dining. Now his firm brings its unique brand of stagecraft to Nobu 57.
By Martin C. Pedersen
The first move in restaurant design is almost always a spatial one: the parameters of the box—the stage set, if you will—must be defined before visual themes begin to emerge.
By Paul Makovsky
David Rockwell has been in love with the theater since he saw Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway when he was eight years old.
By Paul Makovsky
At the Rockwell Group there’s often an intimate connection between food and the architecture where it is served.
By Mireille Hyde
Rather than standing on its own, as in most Japanese restaurants, a Nobu sushi bar always acts as a connector between the kitchen and the dining room.
By Mireille Hyde
To enhance the atmosphere of Nobu 57, the Rockwell Group collaborated with artisans on a handful of artistic installations.
By Martin C. Pedersen
When asked how Nobu 57 influenced his firm’s subsequent work, David Rockwell says, “The inspirations that filter down from project to project are never quite as clear as they appear to others later.”
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