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 | | Harvesting the Wind
By Suzanne LaBarre
Three young French designers hatch an ingenious plan to use existing infrastructure to create clean energy. | |
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 | | Next Generation Runners-Up
By Susan S. Szenasy
This year’s competition asked designers to fix our energy addiction, and they responded with an impressive range of ideas that take on one of the most pressing issues of our time. | |
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 | | The Freer Masons
By Suzanne LaBarre
Michael Silver’s new audio software liberates bricklayers from their paper plans. | |
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 | | A CASE in Point
By Daniela Morell
2004 Next Generation Runner-up launches an original academic program | |
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 | | Now Playing: Tomorrow, Today
By Suzanne LaBarre
The Discovery Channel imagines a sunny future, with a little help from two Next Generation awardees. | |
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 | | School Haze
By Suzanne LaBarre
Could freeways hold the answer to Los Angeles schools’ pollution problem? | |
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 | | Urban Resonance
By Daniela Morell
A Next Gen winner’s moments of illumination | |
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 | | Border Crossings
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
A modest architectural commission becomes a platform for re-evaluating the entire U.S.–Mexico border. | |
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 | | Seattle’s Shore Revisited
By Daniela Morell
An urban plan by the People’s Waterfront Coalition, runners-up from the 2004 Next Generation® Design Competition, is closer to fruition. | |
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 | | More on Molo
By Daniela Morell
See what’s unfolding for a past runner-up | |
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 | | Lunar Light
By Karen E. Steen
This year’s Next Generation winner looks to remake our urban spaces and skies by harnessing the illuminating beauty of the moon. | |
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 | | The Power of Youth
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
This year’s Next Generation runners-up used the theme of energy as fuel to generate great sustainable design concepts | |
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 | | Beneath the Surface
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
By creating a sustainable siding, two young architects
aim to produce better buildings. | |
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 | | Roofs Paved with Green
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
Now that past Next Generation winner Joe Hagerman has teamed up with Rafael Viñoly Architects, students in the Bronx are reaping the benefits. | |
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 | | The New Jersey Barrier
By Rebecca Cavanaugh
Mark Oberholzer explores the urban highway’s potential for wind power. | |
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 | | The Mother of Invention
By Kelly McMasters
This young Brooklyn firm’s research process—necessarily fast and cheap—is quickly earning them a reputation for ingenuity. | |
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 | | The Next Generation Speaks
By Erin Shea
At NeoCon’s Student Day Panel, we touched base with past winners and runners-up of Metropolis’s Next Generation® Design Competition. | |
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 | | Making Their Mark
By Mason Currey
The runners-up in this year’s Next Generation® Design Competition aim to build a better world. | |
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 | | From Highway to Home
By Ken Shulman
Using recycled materials from the Big Dig, Single Speed Design creates a house of monumental proportions. | |
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 | | Out of the Computer
By Stephen Zacks
Virginia San Fratello tries to convert her Next Generation® prize-winning proposal for a Hydro Wall from digital rendering to material prototype. | |
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 | | Craft and Technology
By Susan S. Szenasy
Can the sensibilities of interior designers enrich the inventions of architects? | |
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 | | Pedal Pusher
By Laurie Manfra
A Chicago designer’s signage shows the benefits of bicycling over driving. | |
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 | | Eco Chic
By Laurie Manfra
By branding her supermarket with boutique style, a young designer hopes to turn shoppers into accidental environmentalists. | |
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 | | 2005 Next Generation - An Update
Joseph Hagerman, co-winner of the 2005 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition for his Biopaver system of interlocking concrete paving blocks, has been selected for the 2005 Rafael Viñoly Architects (RVA) fellowship. | |
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 | | Life Sources
By Laurie Manfra
Two noteworthy designs aim to provide safe drinking water to communities in need. | |
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 | | Acts of Remembrance
By Laurie Manfra
Metropolis competition finalists explore ways of honoring the dead. | |
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 | | 2005 Next Generation® Winners
By Tom Vanderbilt
This year’s co-winners—Alisa Andrasek and Joseph Hagerman—share a commitment to process that might help designers solve some of our most complex problems. | |
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 | | Rise of the Citizen Designer
By Laurie Manfra
The fifteen finalists for the 2005 Next Generation® Design Competition displayed an inspiring blend of conceptual flair and social responsibility. | |
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 | | Tapping the Zeitgeist
By Susan S. Szenasy
Metropolis’s Next Generation Design Competition defines the spirit of our time: a new evolving ethic. | |
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 | | How the Next Generation Can Shape Design
By Susan S. Szenasy
“Enthusiasm, solid knowledge, research, analysis, and talent all make designers key contributors to society’s real needs. You have a bright future ahead. I hope, for the earth’s and humanity’s sake, you will find your own way to human-centered design.” | |
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 | | The Judges for the 2005 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition
The judges for the 2005 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition include Wendy Brawer, founder of Modern World Design; Shashi Caan, of the Shashi Caan Collective; industrial designer Timothy deFiebre; John Hong, part of the team that won the 2004 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition; Adrienne McNicholas, of Klinik; and Metropolis editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy. | |
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 | | Seattle Waterfront Plan Dealt Setback
Next Generation Design Competition runner-up Cary Moon and her People’s Waterfront Coalition were dealt a blow this week when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced the city’s plan to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct with a six-lane tunnel. | |
| |
 | | A Place to Dock
By Laurie Manfra
Architect Lira Luis’s temporary shelter would give Manila seafarers someplace to come home to. | |
| |
 | | Building Blocks
By Kristi Cameron
A young designer finds a way to recycle plastics into reusable building components. | |
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 | | Flower Power
By Nicholas Anderson
Landscape-architecture studio StoSS proposes a plan that uses phytoremediation to make brownfields into public gardens. | |
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 | | Reclaiming the River
By Akiko Busch
Pete Seeger and friends promote a permeable swimming structure for the newly cleaned-up Hudson River. | |
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 | | A Backup Plan
By Karen E. Steen
When his study of leading task chairs revealed that most of them force the sitter into unhealthy postures, industrial designer Jeff Jenkins decided to start with healthy postures and work backward. | |
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 | | Improv Theater
By Nicholas Anderson
Architects often espouse the idea of adaptability, but they rarely give it center stage. | |
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 | | Software Aims to Revamp Masonry Practice
Michael Silver, a 2004 Next Generation® Design Prize runner-up, and the International Masonry Institute are developing Automason, a software program that delivers precise instructions to on-site masons. | |
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 | | Do the Strand
By Clair Enlow
Seattle activists suggest that the best plan for a troubled waterfront freeway may be to eliminate it. | |
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 | | The Solar Race
By Laurie Manfra
A multi-disciplinary team works fervently to make solar building technology more powerful than ever. | |
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 | | Radiant Living
By Peter Hall
Emergent turns infrastructure into ornamentation with a concept house based on systems of circulation. | |
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 | | Accordion Architecture
By Martin C. Pedersen
A Canadian firm’s material experiments produce flexible living spaces. | |
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From the January 2010 Issue
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