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November 2011
Features
Knowing Where To Stand

For 50 years, the architectural photographer Norman McGrath has displayed the unique ability to find precisely the right angle from which to convey a building’s real essence.
Features
Collaborations Welcome

Two thriving design collectives—housed in a nondescript building
in Brooklyn—may provide a model for a new way of working.
Features: Lessons of Place
Features: Dialogue
Features: Image Control
Features: An Outsize Influence
Features: Crafting Information
Features: Removal and Renewal
Features: Ready for Anything
Features: Double Tragedy
Features: Business Casual
Features: Bookshelf
Features: Knowing Where To Stand
Features: Brand New World
Features: Acting Like a Start-Up
Features: Stanley Tigerman
Features: The Networked Office
Notes from Metropolis
Lessons of Place

Where we live teaches us about our world. What kind of world do we really want?

Dîa-logue(s)
Dialogue


Observed
Image Control
An Outsize Influence
Crafting Information
Removal and Renewal
Ready for Anything

America
Double Tragedy

The new World Trade Center memorial erases virtually all traces of the old buildings.

In Production
Business Casual

Turnstone’s affordable, modular Bivi system is a natural fit for small companies.

In Review
Bookshelf
New and notable books on architecture, urbanism, and interior design.

Reference Page
Reference



Shop Talk
Stanley Tigerman
The architect talks about bottom-feeders, burning bridges, and the terror of the blank page.

Productsphere
The Networked Office

Products that foster collaboration and efficiency for today’s workplace
Brand New World

Our retail roundup includes kiosks, pop-ups, hidden shops, and a virtual experience activated by QR codes. All of this raises the intriguing question: What is a store today anyway?

Acting Like a Start-Up

After designing offices for a veritable who’s who of Silicon Valley tech firms, Studio O+A has a new challenge: bringing the behemoths back to their renegade roots.

Collaborations Welcome | Bacteria at Work

The team is reconfiguring standardized parts of DNA like Lego blocks, to assemble organisms that perform special functions.

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