January 06, 2010

2010 Competition

Put the $ in Sustainability with Design Competition (and maybe save the Earth)
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2009 Competition

Flood Harvesting Housing Brings Tidal Power to New York City
Inhabitat

Next Generation Technologies Are Responsive and Result from Inter-Disciplinary Teams
The Dirt

France dreams of powering up. Waaaay up
Toronto Star

Metropolis Next Generation Winners: Wind-it
Core77

Wind Turbine Towers Win Metropolis Next Generation Prize
Inhabitat

Using Existing Infrastructure for Wind Turbines
Alternative Energy

Breakthrough Design Uses Electrical Towers to Harvest Wind Power
Treehugger

Quick Fix: Geniuses or Fools? (video)
ABCNews.com

2009 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition results announced
Renewable Energy Magazine

Power Tower Wind Turbines
G Living

2008 Competition

Water fresh from the tarp
CNN.com

Solar Water Disinfecting Tarpaulin Produces Potable Water
Water Secrets Blog

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize
Dexigner

Eric Olsen, MArch ’01, wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Design for drinking
Men.style.com

Next generation design prize
Betterplace.org

“Solar Water Disinfecting Tarpaulin” is the 2008 Metropolis Next Generation Design Winner
Treehugger

eric olsen wins metropolis’ next generation® design prize
Designboom

METROPOLIS NEXT GENERATION 2008 Winner Announced!
Inhabitat

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize
Bustler

Next Generation Competition Winner Announced
Architecture Lab

Water in the Metropolis
Pruned.com
September 04, 2009
Next Gen Green Technologies Coming to the National Building Museum

July 17, 2009
Next Gen Notables: Subverting Suburbia

July 09, 2009
Next Gen Notables: Docking Stations

July 02, 2009
Next Gen Notables: Luciform

June 25, 2009
Next Gen Notables: No-Waste Pattern Design

June 18, 2009
Next Gen Notables: Black Box

June 11, 2009
Next Gen Notables: The Single-Family Power Plant

May 13, 2009
Harvesting the Wind
Three young French designers hatch an ingenious plan to use existing infrastructure to create clean energy.

May 13, 2009
Next Generation Runners-Up
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.

February 24, 2009
The Mexico-Pittsburgh Connection
Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art

January 21, 2009
The Freer Masons
Michael Silver’s new audio software liberates bricklayers from their paper plans.

January 12, 2009
A CASE in Point
2004 Next Generation Runner-up launches an original academic program

November 19, 2008
The 2009 Next Generation® Design Competition Kicks Off in Style
Design-conscious revelers launch this year’s competition.

October 15, 2008
Now Playing: Tomorrow, Today
­The Discovery Channel imagines a sunny future, with a little help from two Next Generation awardees.

October 14, 2008
Hair-Raising Thoughts on Thermal Regulation

June 25, 2008
The Bronx is Burgeoning

June 04, 2008
Growing Full Steam Ahead

May 22, 2008
2008 Next Generation Runners-up: Water Works
This year’s competition looked for solutions to a global problem that many experts are calling the next big environmental crisis.

May 02, 2008
2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize Announced!
Architect Eric Olsen takes home the $10,000 prize.

March 19, 2008
School Haze
Could freeways hold the answer to Los Angeles schools’ pollution problem?

March 04, 2008
Urban Resonance
A Next Gen winner’s moments of illumination

January 03, 2008
High Flying Design

December 19, 2007
Border Crossings
A modest architectural commission becomes a platform for re-evaluating the entire U.S.–Mexico border.

November 14, 2007
Turning Poetry into Material

November 01, 2007
Shelter from Taliesin to Manila

October 29, 2007
Shipbuilding Technology Brings Hydro Wall Out of the Computer

October 24, 2007
Metropolis to hold kick-off event for the 2008 Next Generation Design Competition

October 03, 2007
Shaping the Future: Elizabeth Redmond Speaks @ ICFF 2007
From the 2007 Metropolis Conference, Design Entrepreneurs: Rethinking Energy

September 27, 2007
The Role of Memory in Architecture and Materials

September 20, 2007
Two Water Meters for Conservation

September 12, 2007
A Piece of the Piezoelectric Pie

August 10, 2007
Urban Solutions from the Creator of egoLOGICAL City

July 26, 2007
Upright Design

July 24, 2007
Seattle’s Shore Revisited
An urban plan by the People’s Waterfront Coalition, runners-up from the 2004 Next Generation® Design Competition, is closer to fruition.

June 15, 2007
Keeping Up with The Living
This team focuses on open source design and responsive architecure.

June 06, 2007
More on Molo
See what’s unfolding for a past runner-up

June 01, 2007
A Past Winner at Full Speed Ahead
A Next Generation Design alum makes an appearance at the Architectural League of New York.

May 18, 2007
The Power of Youth
This year’s Next Generation runners-up used the theme of energy as fuel to generate great sustainable design concepts

April 26, 2007
The 2007 Next Generation® Design Competition Winner and Runners-Up Announced
The bright ideas that focus on energy

March 14, 2007
Beneath the Surface
By creating a sustainable siding, two young architects aim to produce better buildings.

February 14, 2007
Roofs Paved with Green
Now that past Next Generation winner Joe Hagerman has teamed up with Rafael Viñoly Architects, students in the Bronx are reaping the benefits.

January 10, 2007
The New Jersey Barrier
Mark Oberholzer explores the urban ­highway’s potential for wind power.

November 10, 2006
The 2007 Next Generation® Design Competition Kicks Off in Style
Design-minded revelers help launch this year’s competition.

September 11, 2006
Straws Into Gold
Padlab turns a humble object into the stuff of beauty.

July 17, 2006
The Mother of Invention
This young Brooklyn firm’s research process—necessarily fast and cheap—is quickly earning them a reputation for ingenuity.

June 28, 2006
The Next Generation Speaks
At NeoCon’s Student Day Panel, we touched base with past winners and runners-up of Metropolis’s Next Generation® Design Competition.

June 19, 2006
Making Their Mark
The runners-up in this year’s Next Generation® Design Competition aim to build a better world.

May 15, 2006
From Highway to Home
Using recycled materials from the Big Dig, Single Speed Design creates a house of monumental proportions.

May 15, 2006
Out of the Computer
Virginia San Fratello tries to convert her Next Generation® prize-winning proposal for a Hydro Wall from digital rendering to material prototype.

May 15, 2006
Craft and Technology
Can the sensibilities of interior designers enrich the inventions of architects?

April 26, 2006
And the Winner is…
Metropolis announces the winner of the 2006 Next Generation® Award

April 17, 2006
Pedal Pusher
A Chicago designer’s signage shows the benefits of bicycling over driving.

January 16, 2006
Eco Chic
By branding her supermarket with boutique style, a young designer hopes to turn shoppers into accidental environmentalists.

December 19, 2005
Living, Breathing Buildings
Envisioning architecture that performs like natural organisms.

November 22, 2005
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.

September 19, 2005
Life Sources
Two noteworthy designs aim to provide safe drinking water to communities in need.

July 25, 2005
Acts of Remembrance
Metropolis competition finalists explore ways of honoring the dead.

May 16, 2005
2005 Next Generation® Winners
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.

May 16, 2005
Rise of the Citizen Designer
The fifteen finalists for the 2005 Next Generation® Design Competition displayed an inspiring blend of conceptual flair and social responsibility.

May 16, 2005
Tapping the Zeitgeist
Metropolis’s Next Generation Design Competition defines the spirit of our time: a new evolving ethic.

May 05, 2005
How the Next Generation Can Shape Design
“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.”

April 28, 2005
Metropolis Announces Two Winners for its 2005 Next Generation® Design Prize
Architect Alisa Andrasek and engineer Joseph Hagerman are the co-winners of Metropolis’s 2005 Next Generation® Design Prize.

February 24, 2005
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.

February 16, 2005
Updates: Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, Jeanine Centuori
Updates on 2004 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition runners-up Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, and UrbanRock Design/Jeanine Centuori.

December 22, 2004
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.

December 01, 2004
A Place to Dock
Architect Lira Luis’s temporary shelter would give Manila seafarers someplace to come home to.

December 01, 2004
Building Blocks
A young designer finds a way to recycle plastics into reusable building components.

December 01, 2004
Flower Power
Landscape-architecture studio StoSS proposes a plan that uses phytoremediation to make brownfields into public gardens.

December 01, 2004
Reclaiming the River
Pete Seeger and friends promote a permeable swimming structure for the newly cleaned-up Hudson River.

November 22, 2004
A Backup Plan
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.

November 22, 2004
Improv Theater
Architects often espouse the idea of adaptability, but they rarely give it center stage.

November 10, 2004
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.

October 01, 2004
Do the Strand
Seattle activists suggest that the best plan for a troubled waterfront freeway may be to eliminate it.

September 27, 2004
The Solar Race
A multi-disciplinary team works fervently to make solar building technology more powerful than ever.

August 01, 2004
Radiant Living
Emergent turns infrastructure into ornamentation with a concept house based on systems of circulation.

July 01, 2004
Mapping the Competition ‘04
Where did all these ideas for the Metropolis Next Generation Design competition come from?

July 01, 2004
Accordion Architecture
A Canadian firm’s material experiments produce flexible living spaces.

June 01, 2004
Single Speed Design: The 2004 Next Generation® Winner
Four young architects’ bold idea: reusing remnants from the Big Dig in Boston to create housing.

October 01, 2003
Design Entrepreneurs: The Next Generation
ICFF 2003 Conference kicks off a new Metropolis awards program and a series of programs for entrepreneurial designers.

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