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Winning projects from design students around the world tackle issues such as equity, natural disasters, immigration, sustainability, health, and more.
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An Online Exhibition Connects the Dots Between Performance and Architecture
Six months after the release of the namesake book during the latest installment of the biennial, PERFORMA has launched Bodybuilding, which features thirty-five architecture studios who engage with performativity.
How Arts & Culture Became a Quarantine Juggernaut
The Google platform works with local curators and archivists to present museum-quality exhibitions online.
As NeoCon Convenes Virtually in 2020, Metropolis Offers Programs on Sustainability
In response to the pandemic, the trade show’s new platform, NeoConnect, digitally brings together designers and exhibitors.
Tomás Saraceno on Beta Attenuation Mass Monitors
The Argentinian artist explores BAM-1020 machines for an upcoming exhibition at The Shed in New York.
Hialeah, Florida Inspires Soulful Materiality in this Exhibition at The Bass Museum
Cuban-born artists Rafael Domenech and Ernesto Oroza visit the city to source materials and inspiration for their upcoming exhibition, Hialeah Eléctrica—Metavector, at Miami's contemporary art museum.
This 125-year-old Swedish Town Has Relocated, Buildings and All
Kiruna Forever, an exhibition at ArkDes, traces the town's relocation due to geological instability.
LEDs Have Given Rise to More Exciting Lighting Designs than Ever, But Is There a Carbon Cost?
The April issue of Metropolis looks at the past, present, and future of lighting, while digging into the sustainability of LED technology.
35 Years of the Campana Brothers’ Legacy Unfolds at MAM Rio
Championing the Brazilian designers’ three-decade-plus career, Campana Brothers – 35 Revolutions is the largest exhibition ever dedicated to the twosome.
To Illuminate Raleigh's Museum Park, Less is More
At the North Carolina Museum of Art's popular park, careful changes in color temperature follow the progression of outdoor spaces.
At Toronto’s Bentway, Lighting Is a Base Layer for Artistic Intervention
PUBLIC WORK and Tillett Lighting Design Associates conceived the strategy with hyper-flexibility in mind.
Todd Bracher on the Acheulean Hand Ax
The New York City–based industrial designer marvels at the social impact of a 2-million-year-old tool.
Lighting For Fun: This Public Park in Dallas Makes the Most of the Night
SWA Group and Oldner Lighting designed Pacific Park Plaza so that the lighting scheme responded to all-day conditions.
Lean In: This Lamp Brings an Indoor Staple Outside
As part of Landscape Forms' Motive collection, designer Justin Champaign has created an al-fresco version of the floor lamp.
9 Interiors From Around the World That Stand Out Because of Lighting
From Wuhan, China, to Los Angeles, Metropolis highlights three lighting strategies that bring work, retail, and hospitality spaces to life.
This Hollywood Coworking Space Feels Like a Giant Terrarium
Spanish firm SelgasCano turned to botanical and zoological inspirations to light Second Home's Los Angeles outpost—the final instalment in our global survey of lighting design.
Lighting Adds to the Graphic Quality of New York's Poster House
At the city's newest museum—next in our series on lighting schemes around the world—LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture use LEDs to heighten the atmosphere of a sensitive adaptive reuse project.
The Task at Hand: 100 Years of the Adjustable Desk Lamp
A technological breakthrough and a little-acknowledged bellwether of Modernism, the task lamp finally gets its due.
The Lighting at this Publisher's HQ Was Designed for Easy Reading
Continuing our series on lighting strategies around the world, we look at how Berlin firm Kinzo's dramatic scheme for the offices of Suhrkamp Verlag serves an important purpose.
This Helsinki Office Is Both Smart and Playful
Next in our series on lighting design around the world, pendant lights and playful furniture bring character to K-Campus, touted as the smartest office building in Finland.
