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October 05, 2012
Metropolis Magazine Announces Annual Next Generation® Design Competition Call for Entries
Winning Design to be Awarded $10,000. Entry Deadline is February 18, 2013

July 25, 2012
Opening Games: Next Generation winner designs for London’s East End
London Mayor’s office has commissioned an urban installation called BLOOM Games, by Bartlett architecture professor and Next Generation winner Alisa Andrasek, for Victoria Park in the East End.

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Seattle Waterfront Plan Dealt Setback

December 22, 2004

Landscape designer Cary Moon’s proposal to revitalize Seattle’s neglected waterfront—by replacing the earthquake-damaged highway that runs its length with a public park designed to sustain local marine life—took a blow this week. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels publicly announced the city’s plan to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct with a six-lane tunnel.

Moon, whose alternate plan for the highway won her honors from the 2004 Next Generation® Design Competition, and the organization she co-founded, the People’s Waterfront Coalition, are continuing their campaign for a more sustainable solution. Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger invited Moon to comments on Nickel’s decision. The resultant piece, “A Bad Case Tunnel Vision,” appeared in the December 12, 2004 issue of the paper.



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

June 04, 2008
Growing Full Steam Ahead

November 01, 2007
Shelter from Taliesin to Manila

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

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 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.

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.

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