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…
Tough Tiles
Two Italian architects design the first ceramic-paved piazza.
From the Ashes
A photographic exhibition on the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shows a city determined to rebuild.
The Ethics of Rugs
Can designers help eliminate child labor in the rug industry? The Rugmark Foundation thinks so.
Tropical Green
A Metropolis conference explores regional approaches to modern architecture.
Model World
Olivo Barbieri’s model world.
Hecho en Espana
Work by a new generation of Spanish designers is taking over furniture fairs, showrooms, and museums.
Architecture 101 (Reconsidered)
Globalization is transforming practice, but are the schools keeping up?
Shelter from the Storm
Students from Harvard and MIT create a safer home on the Sri Lankan coast.
Shanghai Surprise
SOM puts sustainable agriculture and preserved wetlands in its plan for an island section of the booming Chinese metropolis.
Outdoor Livin’
In chilly Toronto, a house takes shape around a courtyard.
Minding the Gap
German typographers address scores of new communication needs with an icon set for the Vialog typeface.
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.
Flex Space
Moore Ruble Yudell transforms a traditional gymnasium into state-of-the-art dance facilities.
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…
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…
Eco Chic
By branding her supermarket with boutique style, a young designer hopes to turn shoppers into accidental environmentalists.
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.
Joy Ride
3Part’s Cheetah wheelchair for R82
