Design Cities 2019: Fukuoka, Japan
After a three-year renovation, the Fukuoka Art Museum reflects the coastal city’s international links, both past and present.
Author: Akiva Blander
Looking Back at NYCxDesign’s Edgier Installations and Exhibitions
Metropolis highlights eight young practitioners who kept this year’s design week fresh and alive with experimental works.
From Playful Products to Clever Urban Interventions, New Affiliates Distills Design to Its Essence
Founded by Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, the New York–based firm creates visually pleasing design, but its most interesting work is cerebral.
With Installation at Madison Square Park, Artist Leonardo Drew Ponders Temporality and Horizontality
“City in the Grass” marks a scaling up of a practice that has long investigated materiality and decay.
Design Museum Gent Explores Humanity's Complicated Relationship with Animals
Creatures Made to Measure: Animals and Contemporary Design explores multiple perspectives on our immensely complex relationship with the animal kingdom.
Estiluz's New Circ Family Distills Lighting to Its Essentials
Another hackneyed release aimed at peripatetic minimalists Circ is not: The light’s cheeky proportions direct attention—gently and quite novelly—to its handle.
Tour Showcases Newly-Restored Bauhaus Architecture in Dessau
The Dessau-Roßlau municipality rehabbed a slew of school's signature works; the buildings reopen this month and are the subject of a new narrative tour called Originals Retold.
New Color Technologies Are Challenging CMYK’s Hegemony
Color Library: Research into Color Reproduction and Printing shows how new color printing advances are blurring the lines between color reality, representation, and reproduction.
Diamond Schmitt Architects Adapts a Historic Train Station for the Canadian Senate
The project leverages the building's opulent elegance, inserting strong nation-building imagery to create a new civic space and provisional home for the Senate.
Motley Crew: Reissued Book Explores the Black Mountain College's Eclectic Ideology and Global Links
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957 originally accompanied a 2015 exhibition by the same name at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof.
How Resilient Power Puerto Rico (RPPR) Is Building Sustainable Infrastructure and Strengthening Communities
Metropolis spoke with architect and RPPR president Jonathan Marvel about the initiative's work and what it aims to accomplish.
The Lesser-Known Bauhaus: Craft and Expressionism in Weimar
Before its association with functionalism and the International Style, the Bauhaus glamorized folk culture and occasionally veered into mysticism.
When a Building Comes Down, Where Do Its Materials Go?
Recycling five essential materials—steel, concrete, drywall, glass, flooring—turns up different challenges, but architects can be part of the solution.
Top Design Trends of 2018: Nordic Redux
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
Top Design Trends of 2018: Look East
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
Top Design Trends of 2018: Trompe L'Oeil
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
Paul Kasmin’s New Chelsea Outpost Is a Refined Respite Among Its Glitzy Neighbors
Designed by Studio MDA, the new flagship art gallery makes a bold statement while maintaining a historical and aesthetic dialogue with its environs.
Alexander Fehre Designs a Surreal, Postmodern-Inflected Office in Germany
The Stuttgart, Germany–based interior architect combined vibrantly painted furniture, ample applications of zinc and wood, and bold black-and-white zigzags.
8 Architectural Products to Inspire Your Next Design
This selection of buildings—ranging from Atlanta to Kansas City to Basel, Switzerland—highlight stand-out materials and products.
The High Line Will Host 1,000 Vocalists for a "Mile-Long" Opera
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Lang are collaborating on the project, which runs October 3–7.
