Notes from Metropolis
By Susan S. Szenasy
An accessible world may be just around the corner—if we’re willing to speak up.
Observed
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
These smart, stylish furnishings should enliven even the stuffiest academic environs.
In Production
By Belinda Lanks
A car designer tries his hand at a multilayered glass chandelier for Ivalo Lighting.
Materials
By Mason Currey
After a few false starts, a manufacturer finds a way to make veneer from reclaimed wood.
America
By Karrie Jacobs
An Internet search engine dedicated to serendipity and surprise faces growing pains.
Text Message
Marcel Wanders talks about the creative process, his “czarina,” and the pleasures of guilty pleasures—using his thumbs.
Reference Page
By Tscharner Hunter and Suzanne LaBarre
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
|  | By Paul Makovsky and Martin C. Pedersen
A survey of outstanding K–12 schools underscores the compelling ways that architects and designers respond to the changing nature of education today.
By Andrew Blum
On the eve of Barack Obama’s New New Deal, a series of compelling photographs illustrates the divide between repair and renewal, despair, and hope.
By Mason Currey
In a string of voluptuous hospital designs, Bertrand Goldberg rejected boxy patient floors in favor of elegant, intimate clusters. But can his curvaceous forms meet the demands of contemporary health care?
By Suzanne LaBarre
Located in the basement of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco, Olle Lundberg’s Moss Room is a free-flowing tribute to the spirit of its region.
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