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 Lunar Light This year’s Next Generation winner looks to remake our urban spaces and skies by harnessing the illuminating beauty of the moon.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
