7 Highlights From Jerusalem Design Week That Asked: East of What?
The design week’s eighth edition unpacked the politically fraught notion of “EAST” at the historic Hansen House.
Author: Aileen Kwun
Designer of Iconic '60s and ’70s Lighting, Robert Sonneman Is Still Producing Striking New Fixtures
After years spent working on other projects—including a stint at Ralph Lauren Home—Sonneman has happily spent the past 15 years back in the lighting industry.
This Interior Designer Is Cornering an Untapped Demographic—Urban Bachelors
Taking a sartorial approach, interior designer and entrepreneur Sabrina MacLean homes in on bachelor pads for her new venture, Maison MacLean.
These Designers Are Turning to Nature for Subversive Solutions
Why shouldn’t our objects be environmentally digestible, like the other earthly elements that keep us alive?
What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About the Future of Architectural Education
The architect eschewed formal education and emphasized learning by doing. In our digital era, that ethos might still be workable.
Inside Tadao Ando's First Building in New York City
An ambitious developer duo sets the bar high with a new multiunit residence by Tadao Ando—the Japanese master’s first building in New York City.
Designers Pick the Best of Their NYC Neighborhoods
Six New York-based designers discuss their favorite hang out spots around New York City, spanning a diverse range of neighborhoods from the Upper East side to Chinatown.
8 Must-See Design Exhibitions During NYCxDESIGN
Metropolis's editors, in collaboration with NYCxDesign, choose the best design exhibitions to catch this season in New York City.
The Materials & Tools Taking Making Into the Future
The relationship between digital technology and craft underwent a rapid transformation from antagonistic to symbiotic in the past decade. Now a vanguard of makers, entrepreneurs, and institutions is taking the next step.
MVRDV Applies Its Unconventional Form-Making to the Family Home
MVRDV principal Jacob van Rijs’s latest project upends the typology of a more intimate scale of building: the residence.
Q&A: Beverly Willis on Finding Design in Everything
The architect-designer discusses her long career and mulls over her influence in fields from art to software design.
These Pocket-Sized 'Maps' Are Part Infographic, Part Travelogue
A London-based duo gives locals and tourists a unique perspective on cities in North America and beyond.
Prescription for Vitality
Yves Béhar makes popping pills look—and sound—more youthful.
The Global View
An exhibition on cities reaches out to a wider audience through the United Nations.
The Finn Juhl Legacy
Salto & Sigsgaard will update the Danish designer’s furniture at the United Nations.
Life, Edited.
The heyday of the McMansion has been on its way out for quite some time – perhaps more by economic circumstance than by fashion of choice – but Treehugger.com founder Graham Hill is out to actively sway our consumption preferences.…
