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June 2002

Features

All Mod Pro

Sensing a new cultural climate, a Swiss company known for its modular office systems sets its sights on the American market.

How Green Is My Valley?

Forget the hut in the woods. The new breed of ecoresort has 300 rooms, air conditioning, and RV parking. But is it really sustainable?

Postwar Correspondent

After the fighting, photographer Sean Hemmerle asks: What is left of Kabul--and how are Afghanis adapting?

Outside In

Inspired by a French filmmaker, David Leven and Stella Betts turn a skyline view into the centerpiece of a Manhattan apartment.

Digital Fireplace

Two young architects create a wall unit that acts as an elegant window into technology.

Ferry Tale

A green design for Manhattan's Staten Island Ferry terminal rescues a controversial site--and reinterprets New York civic architecture.

Visions of Light

Cornell's Program of Computer Graphics--long considered the birthplace of architectural rendering--promises to change the way all future designers work.


Departments

Notes from Metropolis: Walk on the Wild Side What has happened to the brisk urban pace and small courtesies of street life?

The Metropolis Observed Design fakery exposed; Gridlock Sam speaks; pillow talk; last ride?; Gertrude Stein I; NIMBYs in Vegas; Gertrude Stein II; a live/work law that doesn't work.

Perspective: Tour of Duty
Melissa Milgrom
accompanies her furniture-designer husband to the Cologne Furniture Fair.

Enterprise: Instant Office

A new company hopes to offer custom office-furniture solutions on the Internet.

In Production: The Next Phose Dominic Symons's new Phose shoe.

Far Corner: Fitting In

For architects, there's a way out of the tedious game of shock for shock's sake.

Scan
Photographs by Nicole Carstens.

Productsphere: In Detail A look at new interior spaces.

In Review
Paul Goldberger on the American Folk Art Museum; Christopher Hawthorne on design proposals for a new World Trade Center; Ken Coupland with our monthly review of Web sites; new and notable books.

Up & Coming Upcoming events and conferences.

Reference Page More information on people, places, and products covered in this month's issue.

Ben Katchor American Coin Wash, Inc.

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