This selection of buildings—ranging from Atlanta to Kansas City to Basel, Switzerland—highlight stand-out materials and products.
Courtesy Paula Lobo Show Caption Hide Caption Jorge Otero-PailosCourtesy Paula Lobo Show Caption Hide Caption Courtesy Paula Lobo Show Caption Hide Caption Courtesy Paula Lobo In many ways, architecture and dance couldn’t be more different. One is traditionally solid and still, the other dynamic and kinetic. One relies on drawings and images, the other on personal instruction and muscle-memory choreography. So…
The new book The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit? offers lessons for today by looking at Biosphere 2, Eden Project, and other microworlds.
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On view at the Fondation Cartier, Géométries Sud, du Mexique à la Terre de Feu features the work of numerous Latin Americans, including Bolivian-Aymara architect Freddy Mamani.
Architects Stiff + Trevillion collaborated with artist Lee Simmons on the facade for 40 Beak Street, which includes famed British artist Damien Hirst among its tenants.
Years of ad hoc expansions has cut off St Teresa’s boarding school from nature, but new buildings by London-based IF_DO aim to turn the tide.
Metropolis’s latest Think Tank event, held at the Boston offices of HDR, addressed how architecture and design professionals can design for humanity.
With the Cooper Hewitt exhibiting The Senses: Design Beyond Vision, Metropolis takes a look at the past, present, and future of multisensory design.
The London office, where 4,000 Bloomberg employees work, was lauded for its sustainable architecture, workplace design, and new public spaces.
Architect Malcolm Davis updated the 1,400-square-foot house to highlight its ocean vista while staying true to Sea Ranch’s architecture.
Du Bois’s 1900 Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America illustrated the progress of newly-freed African Americans and is being published for Du Bois’s 150th birthday.
From algae walls to circadian rhythm–savvy films and thermally-activated bimetal shades, a dramatic range of technologies could change the architectural envelope.
Lessons learned from The Open Style Lab’s 10-week summer program, whose teams create wearables to address disabilities, at The New School’s Parsons School of Design.
The soft fields contrast with Yabu Pushelberg’s GRID for Warp & Weft. The three-part collection has a graphic quality despite being handwoven, recalling the urban environment. (Seen here: Axis)Courtesy Yabu Pushelberg/Warp & Weft The soft fields contrast with Yabu Pushelberg’s GRID for Warp & Weft. The three-part collection has a graphic quality despite being handwoven, recalling the urban environment. (Seen…
The discussion, part of Metropolis’s Perspective event series, delved into the challenges of deeply ingraining sustainable products and strategies.
The 60-seat Harlan+Holden Glasshouse Café includes custom seating by the designers for Wiener GTV Design, bespoke stone floors, and lighting by Louis Poulsen and Rubn.
It’s Fall, and as students are settling into another academic year, we’re taking a look at some of the best and brightest education projects from the world-over.
José Esparza Chong Cuy, currently an associate curator at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, will take over the iconic New York City institution beginning November 1.
Bitters helped define an expressive, even carnal side of modern Californian clayware; this Heath collection echoes his raw and dramatic sculpted works.
