Observed
America
By Karrie Jacobs
Visiting London for the first time in years proves revelatory.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Two years after Katrina, New Orleans faces huge challenges—amid glimmers of real hope.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
New products for a more efficient office
In Production
By Belinda Lanks
Humanscale’s ingenious Switch Mouse works equally well for lefties and righties.
Materials
By Mason Currey
Columbia Forest Products adds particleboard to its growing roster of formaldehyde-free composite woods.
Reference Page
By Suzanne LaBarre and Carl William Lisberger
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
|  | By John Hockenberry
The New York Times builds a glittering twenty-first-century headquarters—designed by Renzo Piano—that challenges the very notion of how a newspaper operates during a time of great uncertainty and rapid transformation.
By Stephen Zacks
Dubai’s insane rate of development is easy to misinterpret—even caricature—but the cliché obscures the city’s more serious ambitions.
By Stephen Zacks
If you don’t like the way Dubai looks today, wait a year or two—it’s changing fast. Here’s a selection of upcoming projects likely to have a big impact on the horizon.
By David Sokol
Opulent, exuberant, and largely imported from the West, Dubai’s interior design exhibits the same sort of flash as the city’s over-the-top architecture.
By Paul Makovsky
In establishing Japan’s first cultural institution devoted to design, fashion innovator Issey Miyake is hoping to expand the nation’s understanding of the subject.
By James S. Russell
The rating system is beginning to gain wide acceptance, but critics now wonder whether the checklist approach can meet the daunting challenges ahead.
By Michael Silverberg
Green architecture in the United States is as geographically polarized as the political landscape—and a look at future eco-building sites suggests the trend will continue. The good news? More LEED projects on the horizon. Lots more.
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