Professional Introvert Susan Cain Rethinks The Open-Plan Office
Teaming up with a best-selling author, Steelcase creates work spaces for those seeking refuge from the constant din of the open-plan office.
Author: Marc Kristal
The Veteran Fabrication Company Combining High-Tech With Craft
In the hands of NRI, a leading fabrication service, 3-D printing is a finely honed craft.
A Surge in Cultural Capital Is Remaking France's Oldest City
Marseille, France's oldest city - and one of its poorest - uses its year in the spotlight to reinvent itself.
The Living Office—The Action Office for the Digital Age?
Almost 50 years after the Action Office, Herman Miller embarks on the next big rethinking of the workplace: the Living Office. It is the ultimate twenty-first-century work-in-progress.
Engineering Experiences
Scott Amron’s function-driven approach to everyday rituals results in simple, almost poetic solutions.
Long Road to Simple
A new line of school furniture capitalizes on extensive research into the changing dynamics of the classroom.
Starck’s Material World
More than ten years in the making, the designer’s new chair pushes Emeco—a manufacturer long famous for its iconic aluminum furniture—in a whole new direction.
Happy Discovery
In its new wing, the Queens Central Library finds delightful ways to encourage kids to learn.
Vishaan Chakrabarti: Bringing Real Estate Into the Urban Fold
He is reshaping architecture education by teaching real estate development with a combination of pragmatism and lofty ideals.
John Edelman: No to Knockoffs, Yes to Talent
He has revived DWR by reaching out to a new generation of American design.
Mia Birk: Transportation Reformer, Bicycle Advocate
She has transformed our urban streets by organizing bike-sharing programs across the country.
An Outsize Influence
The expansion of the Cranbrook Art Museum will immerse students and visitors in its extraordinary history.
Just Getting Started
Pumped by early success, the architect Jun Aizaki contemplates the future and sees possibilities everywhere.
Nothing to Prove
Ian Schrager teams up with Marriott on a global line of defiantly unhip boutique hotels.
From the Ground Up
An award-winning planning study for Lower Manhattan may act as a model for future development.
Hidden Potential
Specht Harpman celebrates the uninspired architecture of a 1960s dormitory.
Moorish Accents
A renovation inflected with traditional details returns Morocco’s La Mamounia hotel to its roots.
Foreign Import
Inspired by a trip to Brazil, two Danish architects bring Oscar Niemeyer’s bold thinking home to Aarhus.
Act of Alchemy
For a hotel in Mexico City, Yabu Pushelberg spins the familiar into gold.
Making It Happen
By developing their own projects, Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer have succeeded in New York without going through the “right” schools or firms. Now, just as the economy collapses around them, they are completing their first two buildings in Manhattan.
