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…
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.
Hecho en Espana
Work by a new generation of Spanish designers is taking over furniture fairs, showrooms, and museums.
Slim City, Mexico
One of the prime movers behind the restoration of Mexico City’s historic district, billionaire Carlos Slim Helú is also a major investor in the neighborhood.
Architecture 101 (Reconsidered)
Globalization is transforming practice, but are the schools keeping up?
Joy Ride
3Part’s Cheetah wheelchair for R82
Shelter from the Storm
Students from Harvard and MIT create a safer home on the Sri Lankan coast.
Where Old and New Collide
By joining two historic buildings, Steven Holl’s modern addition to Pratt’s architecture school makes a more vibrant campus.
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.
