Bright Lights, Bright City
Let Christina Seely show you your city in a whole new light
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Feeding off Engineers' Energy
Could energy auditing be in your future?
Do You Hear the Light?
A silent concert of lighting designs graced the Helen Mills Theater last night for the exhibition Audible Light. New York City students from across the design spectrum competed for cash prizes in the Illuminating Engineering Society's ninth-annual student lighting competition.…
Tech-Tac-Toe
Intel's Tech Heaven offered a glimpse of how the future's gearing up
Gadget Wars
Vote for your favorite Greener Gadget
Jinhee Park Wins Again!
Winner of the first Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition is honored for her ongoing efforts
Shivering for Joy
Molo's Northern Sky Circle is a gathering space at Alaska's FREEZE festival
Not Business as Usual at AIA New York
In troubling times architects come together to brainstorm
Central Brooklyn Design Review
Pratt urban-design students make bold proposals close to home.
Your Year-End CEU Fix
AIA New York offers 32 credits over three days
How Would Nature Build a Database?
The Biomimicry Institute launches AskNature.org.
A Unified Frenzy
The results of MAS's Coney Island design charette bring craziness into focus.
View from the Pet House
A charity auction that offers some serious creature comforts
Public Forums to Save Coney Island
Things you can do in this latest effort to help the Brooklyn landmark
Fueling the Economy
Hit the road with a new site from EPA and DOE
NYC Honors Her Greenest
Results from the 2008 Green Building Competition for New York City
Radical Cartography
Mapping techniques that provide a new way to look at your surroundings
A Restored Beauty Emerges
Visitors of New York's Guggenheim finally get face time with the iconic structure.
Today is Park(ing) Day
Go out there and claim your piece of the pavement!
Some Useful Lessons from Burning Man
Those who come back from Burning Man use the word "decompress" to describe the shock of returning to their "normal" lives. So now that I've had about a week to do that myself, I've been thinking back to…
Another Modernist Battle in New Orleans
Preservation groups are sending out an S.O.S. (Save Our Schools)
The Solar Raceway
Picture this: You’re driving down the highway when in the rearview you spy a soapbox derby car built by college students barreling along at a traffic-friendly speed. The car is smothered in photovoltaics and looks more than a little extraterrestrial.…
An Exhibit That's Just a Drop in the Bucket
1% Water, a new exhibition at Z33 gallery in Hasselt, Belgium is using art and design to take a critical look at water usage (and possible remedies) throughout the world. While 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by…
Designers to the Grave
Now you can go out in (sustainable) style.
Working for the Night
The U.S. may soon add light to the EPA's list of dangerous pollutants.
Upper East Sad
Can urban neighborhoods reverse the development tide to save mom and pop?
The Metropolis Conference @ ICFF: Afternoon
Live from ICFF
Support Your Library, Eat Your Lawn
On a very rainy Friday night last week in New York City, a large audience gathered at the main branch of the New York Public Library to find fresh vegetables (asparagus, lettuce, potatoes) weighing down programs on their seats. They…
In Search of Greener (Electronic) Pastures
This past Friday I attended the first Greener Gadgets conference, presented by Inhabitat and Marc Alt + Partners, in New York City. It was a timely event that explored sustainability issues as these relate to our addiction to hi-tech toys.…
Pratt Students Go Exhibitionist for the Environment
Last night art students at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn painted their bodies for sustainability. At stake was free pizza, $4,000 prize money (in the categories of face-color, face-black and white, and body), plus a full page ad in Metropolis,…
