Metropolis Magazine - Metropolis Magazine January 2007
You Were Expecting a Knuckle Sandwich?
A new line of snack food steps into the ring.
Inside the Box
Alain Berteau finds a novel use for cardboard packaging material.
The Art of Compromise
A LEED Platinum rehab in Portland finds a balance between preservation and sustainability.
The Green Urban Office
With natural lighting and amenities for transportation, HOK’s downtown Toronto studios set the gold standard for office interiors.
Parting Company
Sixty-two-year-old Adrian Smith leaves SOM to strike out on his own.
Platinum Effort
For Interface’s Atlanta showroom, TVS Interiors achieves LEED’s highest rating by undertaking a rigorous predesign process.
Skin and Bones
Winka Dubbeldam balances substance and style beyond a dazzling glass curtain wall in a New York loft.
I ♥ IIT… But I Still Don’t Like Rem
Can you separate the tics of a genius-builder from the genius-building? Short answer: no.
A visit to the Koolhaas-designed student center in Chicago places our columnist in a real quandary.
Powers of 10
Two leading structural engineers pick their favorite feats of man-made wonder.
Seminar in the Woods
Daylighting, natural ventilation, energy efficiency, and clean materials rule in classrooms for the Evergreen State College by Mahlum Architects.
Behind the Beauty Shot
A complex set of interior-design decisions is revealed with the aid of graphic design.
Object Lesson
The circumvention of SOM’s daylighting scheme for Bank of America shows that user education is essential to sustainable design.
Changing Venues
A cutting-edge Austrian artist collective creates a new kind of civic space.
Welcome to the Jungle
Designs inspired by warmer climes.
Local Color
Rios Clementi Hale Studios creates an L.A.-centric headquarters for a California nonprofit.
Highways That Harvest Wind Power in Urban Environments
Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, explores the urban highway’s potential for wind power.
Mark Oberholzer explores the urban highway’s potential for wind power.
The Beauty of Numbers
Inspired by his work with influential architects, Cecil Balmond searches for that exquisite blend of structural form and structural logic.
Soled Separately
These new shoes come in two parts—one for style and one for structure.
Pop Panels
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 and resists bacteria, mold, and mildew—enemies of the asthmatic and chronically ill author. In 2001, while studying industrial design at…
