Metropolis Magazine - Metropolis Magazine January 2007

A cutting-edge Austrian artist collective creates a new kind of civic space.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios creates an L.A.-centric headquarters for a California nonprofit.

These new shoes come in two parts—one for style and one for structure.

Designer Marian Schoettle has appropriated DuPont Tyvek as the raw material for a line of jackets, skirts, and bags.

Participants in the Urban Curators project highlight the unintended ­beauty of downtown Providence’s urban detritus.

A new line of snack food steps into the ring.

A LEED Platinum rehab in Portland finds a balance between preservation and sustainability.

Sixty-two-year-old Adrian Smith leaves SOM to strike out on his own.

Winka Dubbeldam balances substance and style beyond a dazzling glass curtain wall in a New York loft.

Two leading structural engineers pick their favorite feats of man-made wonder.

A complex set of interior-design decisions is revealed with the aid of graphic design.

Designs inspired by warmer climes.

Marcel Proust famously secluded himself in a cork-lined room for the last 15 years of his life, devoting his energies to the monumental Remembrance of Things Past. So why cork? With its closed-cell foam structure, the low-density wood dampens sound…

For a Slow Food restaurant in San Francisco, Cass Calder Smith deploys recycled materials for durability with a popular appeal.

You are about to see a snapshot of twenty-first-century interiors: they are kind to their occupants and the earth equally, in addition to being beautiful. They represent a series of sophisticated decisions that involve a strong relationship to the architecture…

Alain Berteau finds a novel use for cardboard packaging material.

With natural lighting and amenities for transportation, HOK’s downtown Toronto studios set the gold standard for office interiors.

For Interface’s Atlanta showroom, TVS Interiors achieves LEED’s highest rating by undertaking a rigorous predesign process.