Metropolis Magazine - Metropolis Magazine May 2008
Looking for a Restaurant in Downtown Chicago?
Every year Chicago stakes a new claim on America’s dining map. In repurposed architectural spaces, indoors and out, large plates and small, the Windy City just keeps getting tastier. Check out our listings online and be sure to pick up your own copy of Taste of the Town at NeoCon.
A Room on Its Own
Kithaus’s new prefab K3 makes building a backyard studio a snap.
Lighting the Way
A series of stunning art installations, located in first-class and VIP lounges, enlivens the passenger experience at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Dubai, Doha
End of the world? Or the beginning of a new one?
Bent Out of Shape
A Swiss research project proposes a new way to manufacture curved wooden panels.
Charlotte von der Lancken
One-fourth of the Swedish firm Front answers a few questions on industrial design, inspiration, and process—using her thumbs.
Soft as Steel
Kengo Kuma finds a poetic alternative to concrete in the iron alloy.
Poster Children
Metropolis’s art department helps raise money for California wildfire victims.
2008 Next Generation Runners-up: Water Works
This year’s competition looked for solutions to a global
problem that many experts are calling the next big
environmental crisis.
A More Perfect Union
An international cast of talents orchestrates one Finnish couple’s trip down the aisle.
Minimal Makeover
Perhaps best known for his pop forms (think butterfly, tongue, and tulip), Pierre Paulin has a more functionalist past. In 1954 he turned out the Bauhaus-inspired CM 141 desk, which Ligne Roset will rerelease in September as Tanis. The name isn’t the only change—the original melamine surface is now Corian or laminate, and walnut has replaced ash veneer on the…
Trickle-down Architecture
New York’s tiny Gage/Clemenceau Architects put their fanciful competition ideas to work in built projects.
On Dry Land
The water czar of Las Vegas talks about balancing rapid development with smart land-use and natural-resource planning.
Light in the Attic
Noel Clarke, of 2C Design Studio, recently transformed the neglected attic of his Victorian house in Somerville, Massachusetts, into an immaculate modern work space. Rather than bury the room’s past under layers of Sheetrock, he integrated most of its existing features. “There are ways to make interventions that develop a dialogue between old and new so they feel like they…
Craft on the Dial
Looking to create sustainable jobs for the skilled workers of his hometown, one Indonesian designer produces a handmade radio.
A River Runs Through It
It was four years in development, but this summer an idea for a pool on the Hudson finally comes to life.
Stamp of Approval
The post office issues an unusually rich offering in recognition of an unusually rich career.
Spanish Armada
The next international design stars will come from the Iberian Peninsula.
Modern Paradise
Though largely unknown outside of Hawaii, architect Vladimir Ossipoff created a singular body of work that fully utilized the lush tropical climate of his adopted home.
Mobile Home?
The relocation of an early Frank Gehry design raises questions about the nature of architecture.
