Berlin Architects Draw on Traditional Building Techniques for Kurdish Safe Haven
The Healing Garden in Iraqi Kurdistan provides animal therapy, basic medical care, and community spaces.
Author: Akiva Blander
6 Product Trends That Defined 2019
Against the background of climate disaster and political uncertainty, the year's design trends reflect a cultural desire for calm and familiarity.
Year in Review: What Has and Hasn’t Been Said About the Bauhaus at 100
So much has already been made of the so-called Modernist progenitors, but Metropolis editors and contributors produced commentary that sought to fill in—and question—some of the gaps.
8 Lighting Releases That Show the Best Design is Often Hidden in Plain View
Recent lighting products can take a minimal form, seemingly dissolving into the spatial ether, or manifest more arrestingly.
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Revisiting the Meaning of “Native Architecture”
Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous speaks with Metropolis about (de)colonization in the practice, education, and experience of architecture.
Colorful Japanese Posters Take Over Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum
The exhibition, spanning over 80 years of Japanese graphic design, is a tribute to designer Shigeru Watano's long-standing relationship with the museum.
These 6 Products Show That Modular Living Is Going Luxe
From wallpaper to lighting, versatile and high-style design reveals how modularity is cropping up in today’s residential interiors.
Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Spatial Research and Urban Conflict
With an unabashed embrace of the empirical, contributors assert something about how space is experienced.
High Mineral Content: Geology-Inflected Designs Take Over
From furniture to accessories, surfaces to lighting, Metropolis digs up the latest designs that rock.
Planning For (In)Justice: Toni Griffin's Mission to Foster Equitable Cities
Griffin founded the consultancy Urban Planning for the American City, which she complements with her pedagogical work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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.
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.
