X-Ray Architecture
Translucent concrete? Bill Price's experimental building material promises to revolutionize the field. Ken Shulman has the exclusive report on this ultimate work-in-progress. SIDEBAR: Transparency Made Concrete, an instant guide to transparency and the avant-garde.

Quiet Chaos
Mixing high and low, alternative and mainstream, Gary Panter has created a delightfully subversive body of work. Steven Heller visits the artist in his junk-filled studio.

A Softening of the Edges
Petra Blaisse's interiors and landscapes provide the feminine ballast that lets Koolhaas build. Melissa Milgrom takes a walk through the garden.

Sweet Dreams
What do a New Orleans Motel 6, Ian Schrager's Hudson in Manhattan, and the Park Hyatt Chicago have in common? All are meticulously designed--in surprising ways. Jonathan Ringen, Martin C. Pedersen, and Karen E. Steen check in for the night.

Harlem Disappears
Photographer Alice Attie captures a neighborhood in rapid transition. Amid the doomed buildings and crumbling signs, Robin Kelley finds a poignant irony.

Notes from Metropolis Business Un-Usual at the ICFF.

DialogueReaders' letters and competition notices.

The Metropolis Observed
Fallout shelters--where are they now?; on tour with Bucky Fuller; Due's comic sensibility; carving suburbia out of trees; a train to the bottom of the sea; birds 0, skyscrapers 1 billion; engineering the perfect T-shirt; a rural solution to urban problems.

Scan Andreas Gursky's giant photographs.

EnterpriseHerman Miller developed a line of furniture for the new economy in less than year. How? By creating a start-up of its own. Tom Vanderbilt drops by the studio.

In ProductionJakob Gebert's Taino chair.

ProductsphereThe Workspheres exhibition at MoMA.

In ReviewBarbara Flanagan on Women Designers in the U.S.A.; Ken Coupland with our monthly list of Web sites; new and notable books on architecture, culture, and design.

Up & ComingA preview of upcoming events, exhibitions, and conferences.

Ben KatchorThe Souvenir Museum