Peter Hall

The designer Elliott Earls and architecture students at Cranbrook learn some valuable lessons on the job.

Recently developed software promises to provide industrial designers with a powerful new tool for materials evaluation.

Grimshaw Industrial Design creates a seamless interface between the building and its users.

Over a three-year collaboration, Fuseproject and Herman Miller developed the idea into SAYL, a lightweight chair whose main feature is a “3-D intelligent” back.

Education experts tell us that kids today learn in fundamentally different ways. Why haven’t our classrooms changed to reflect this shift? A new student chair and learning lab from Steelcase look to bridge the gap.

Led by a hard-charging CEO and his right-hand man, Grohe uses design to remake both the bathroom and its own business.

­Critics of the Museum of Arts and Design missed the real point of the building.

Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.

Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.

A new air purifier looks to provide fresh air in offices on a desk-by-desk basis.

With more people working from home, Herman Miller commissions a new line of domestic office furniture to accompany its famous Eames and Nelson pieces. But are icons born or made?

In order to build himself a glass house, an Austin architect had to navigate the feverish politics of the city’s real estate market.

The world’s first digital database of Asian head and face shapes could help change the way all industrial designers think about ergonomics and fit.

Western Michigan’s big-three furniture makers have plans for your office chair once you’re finally done sitting in it.

Architect Christopher Janney’s playful public art acts as an aural and light-filled salve to the alienating effects of the built environment.

Herman Miller looks to revolutionize interiors by making expensive renovations a thing of the past.

As you enter the IAC Building, you might notice how the heads of people sitting in reception are dwarfed by a giant globe projected on a 20-foot-wide screen behind them, as if in some Barry Diller–esque restaging of the war…

Two young New York architects turn a gritty East Village rooftop into a tranquil urban idyll.

Design schools need to shift focus from the form of objects to understanding the systems that produce them.

The current Triennial has not only abandoned themes, but also any sense of a guiding curatorial voice.

Using digital technology, architects Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier break free from the conventional box that has long defined prefab houses.

A recent electronic-arts festival drew stark attention to what a cluster of high-profile buildings had forgotten: the people who live there.

The day the $1.4 million Alessi flagship store was scheduled to open on Soho’s Greene Street, a dozen or so workers were still stomping over the freshly poured epoxy flooring, heaving a $14,000 La Marzocco espresso machine into its alcove,…

Can game designers reach a generation of students reared on technology and resistant to traditional methods of teaching?

Andy Spade’s new Soho store—a case study in subversive branding and calculated undesign—unseats all the conventional wisdom surrounding upscale retailing.

A celebrated industrial designer and workplace pioneer takes a last stab at that beleaguered staple of American corporate life: the office system.

On the 50th anniversary of the Eames Lounge Chair, an intriguing new book and exhibition shed light on the arduous process behind the making of a Modern classic.

Can technology conquer the fickle world of kitchen and bathroom fixtures?

Years after its demise the legendary magazine continues to exert a cultural influence.

It revolutionized the task chair and in the process became an enduring cultural symbol.

David Rockwell helped create the phenomenon of destination dining. Now his firm brings its unique brand of stagecraft to Nobu 57.

Information—key to the Bloomberg empire—becomes an intrinsic part of the visual experience.

An obscure company is fast becoming the go-to fabricator for facade and structural innovation.

In the wake of dwindling support from corporate partners, Don Chadwick continues his own blue-sky quest into new materials and forms.

To create sculptural statements, Ivalo Lighting turns to the masters of form-giving: architects.

Richard Sapper—designer of the legendary Tizio lamp—has created a new task lamp, the Halley, using LED technology.

New materials and innovative design are making folding bicycles an urban reality. But can American car-culture change enough to make them safe to ride?

Emergent turns infrastructure into ornamentation with a concept house based on systems of circulation.

The maglev train is the future of twenty-first-century transit. Why won’t we see it in the U.S. anytime soon?

A Brooklyn metalworking shop with an unlikely name may hold the key to 21st-century shapemaking.

Here is a selection of web exclusive images from photographer David Allee whose work explores the harsh but ethereal effect of artificial light on man-made environments.

Photographer David Allee explores the harsh but ethereal effect of artificial light on man-made environments.

Step by step, David Small’s design innovations are moving technology off the screen and into your life.