Notes from Metropolis
By Susan S. Szenasy
Held in drought-plagued Phoenix, Greenbuild 2009 had water on its mind.
Observed
America
By Karrie Jacobs
At the Standard, André Balazs’s High Line–straddling hotel, the show occurs on both sides of the glass.
In Production
By Belinda Lanks
Scot Herbst restyles the classic kids’ ride.
Materials
By Martin C. Pedersen
Coverings Etc finds a way to make tiles from recycled aircraft aluminum.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Products that highlight the promising partnership of haute couture and industrial design
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The founding principal of BIG talks about refurbishing the surface of the planet, the big question, and the runner’s high.
Reference Page
By Suzanne LaBarre and Claire Levenson
|  | The future of preserving the past has arrived.
The sector that once seemed to crank out a new Nobu each week has had to learn to make do with less. Much less.
The nation’s infrastructure faces a grim future.
Tomorrow’s materials will be cleaner and greener than today’s.
In light of the obesity epidemic, the public-health community has issued a cry for a corrective.
Health-care design, once the province of sterile, faintly inhumane patient wards, is finally developing a bedside manner.
The former mayor of Milwaukee discusses slower roads, better streets, and the lure of mass transit.
Baby boomers are marching into their sixties and seventies; and soon—faster than you can say “Fiber One”—we’ll have the oldest workforce in the history of work.
Interior LEDs, 24-hour schemes, and more predictions from Dr. Mariana Figueiro
The 21st-century city faces a host of daunting challenges. But the seeds of fairly radical change have already been planted.
The dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on clips blogs, proto-laboratories, and other educational experiments
Despite all the talk about net-zero and net-positive architecture, green buildings remain elusive for the mainstream.
During the last century, our electrical grid was a symbol of progress, bringing cheap and abundant power to cities and towns across the country.
As climate change threatens to reshape our world, landscape architecture seems poised to play a leading role in creating an environmentally sound and effective response.
Shopping as we know it is dead.
By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
A school dedicated to design-based learning opens in the very building where GM’s legendary Harley Earl became the father of the modern car.
By Suzanne LaBarre
A new middle school in Harlem is the product of its stubborn and visionary founders and the building’s equally stubborn and visionary architect.
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