Metropolis Magazine - Metropolis Magazine February 2006
The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative: Greenscaping Brooklyn’s Waterfront
An ambitious project could create landscaped spaces that would enable travel along the area’s currently inaccessible 14 mile-long waterfront.
An ambitious project could create landscaped spaces that would enable travel along the area’s currently inaccessible 14 mile-long waterfront.
Give My Regards to the Moynihans
I’m trilled about the Penn Station Project . It’s a great legacy to the late Great Senator Patrick Moynihan. But more so, a testament to his never ending concern and work for the people of New York and this nation. He was right-on referring to the destroyers of the original Penn Station by calling them “bastards.” How can we ever…
Shanghai Surprise
SOM puts sustainable agriculture and preserved wetlands in its plan for an island section of the booming Chinese metropolis.
Thought Bubble
Foster and Partners’ new library in Berlin utilizes decades of research, taking green building to the next level.
Outdoor Livin’
In chilly Toronto, a house takes shape around a courtyard.
A Valentine to Place
Our resident curmudgeon’s annual ode to all things good and true.
Minding the Gap
German typographers address scores of new communication needs with an icon set for the Vialog typeface.
Master of All Scales
Antonio Citterio has designed everything from sofas to high-rise condos, but don’t expect a signature style or a grand overarching theory.
Tough Tiles
Two Italian architects design the first ceramic-paved piazza.
Remembering Ed Bacon, Philadelphia’s Robert Moses
Ed Bacon, Philadelphia's chief planner for two decades during the postwar period, was the complex force behind the city as we know it today.
Ed Bacon was the complex force behind Philadelphia as we know it today.
Lungs of the Library
A look at the active and passive technologies used to heat and ventilate the building.
From the Ashes
A photographic exhibition on the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shows a city determined to rebuild.
Flex Space
Moore Ruble Yudell transforms a traditional gymnasium into state-of-the-art dance facilities.
The Power of Modernist Thinking
One house that survived Katrina was an anomaly even before the storm.
The Ethics of Rugs
Can designers help eliminate child labor in the rug industry? The Rugmark Foundation thinks so.
Clean Water Act
Visit the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, by February 5, and you may leave with an unlikely souvenir: bottled water. Since November, artists Lucy and Jorge Orta have been pumping murky brownish liquid into the museum from a nearby canal, then processing it through a filtration and purification machine, and selling glass bottles of clear drinkable OrtaWater to visitors…
Tropical Green
A Metropolis conference explores regional approaches to modern architecture.
About Face
One could get the wrong impression of the 2F chair from its abbreviation of “Two-Face,” which also happens to be the moniker of a conflicted Batman villain. With a profile of less than an inch and a different appearance on each side, it is somewhat elusive. But there’s nothing sinister about Finnish industrial designer Hannu Kähönen’s super-efficient seat. Scheduled for…
Model World
Olivo Barbieri’s model world.
Eco Chic
By branding her supermarket with boutique style, a young designer hopes to turn shoppers into accidental environmentalists.
