Observed
America
By Karrie Jacobs
A nineteenth-century toy inspires a twenty-first-century phantasm—one paid for by a sponsor.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Modernism failed to save the Indiana town that architecture famously built.
Portfolio
By Jade Chang
Rowena Dring renders large-scale landscapes one stitch at a time.
In Production
By Belinda Lanks
Kasper Salto’s table for Fritz Hansen responds to today’s mobile work habits.
Materials
By Mason Currey
“Material for your dreams,” reads a page of the press materials for Durat, a polyester-based surface material made by Tonester Ltd.
Learning Curve
By Belinda Lanks
A Columbia University professor brings modern design to postwar Afghanistan.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Stylish, clever, and eco-friendly objects bring a touch of class to the office.
In Review
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
New and notable books on architecture, culture, and design.
A periodic review of Web sites and blogs.
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
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By Peter Hall
A celebrated industrial designer and workplace pioneer takes a last stab at that beleaguered staple of American corporate life: the office system.
How the workplace has changed through one man.
By Jade Chang
Google’s new headquarters balances its utopian desire for transparency with its very real need for privacy.
By Brian Libby
The challenge was a relatively simple one: take the bus near my home in southeast Portland, Oregon, across the Willamette River to a laboratory just north of downtown on Naito Parkway, about five miles away.
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In the kingdom of search, Google is so dominant that even as competitors
match Google’s speed and quality they know that just being as good is
not good enough.
By Paul Makovsky
Catherine Opie trains her lens on Chicago.
By Daniel Akst
Haworth’s new CEO brings a European sensibility to a traditional Midwestern company with increasingly global aspirations.
By Paul Goldberger
The danger of Jacobs’s legacy lies with developers who co-opt her ideas to justify their megaprojects.
By Mason Currey
The runners-up in this year’s Next Generation® Design Competition aim to build a better world.
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