With Healthcare Architecture, Building Full-Scale Mockups Spurs Fresh Approaches to Design
A Metropolis Think Tank panel, held at Payette in Boston, highlighted how building bigger prototypes and mockups can make all the difference.
James McCown
As Universities Become More Urban, Campus Planning Is Evolving
At a Think Tank discussion held at SmithGroup in Boston, Metropolis's Susan S. Szenasy led a discussion on new town/gown dynamics.
Harvard Opens Snøhetta-Designed Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits
Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
Architects on How the Profession Can Design Inclusive Healthcare Facilities
Metropolis's latest Think Tank event, held at the Boston offices of HDR, addressed how architecture and design professionals can design for humanity.
Henry N. Cobb Looks Back on 70 Years of Architecture
A founding partner of the venerable firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb has built extensively, nowhere more than in his native Boston.
NatureStructure Exhibition Shows How Infrastructure and Nature Can Work Together
On view at the BSA Space in Boston, NatureStructure features a bridge that doubles as bat habitat, plans for 3D-printed reefs, a floodwater-absorbing parking lot, and more.
Best Thing Going
The Best Products showrooms were Post-Modern icons, giving the suburbs their own landmark architecture. An admirer asks,
Best Thing Going
The Best Products showrooms were Post-Modern icons, giving the suburbs their own landmark architecture. An admirer asks,
