A New Restaurant in the U.K. Experiments with Cross-Laminated Timber
The Wildernesse Restaurant, designed by Morris + Company, plays with wood construction and typological precedents, all despite a small budget.
Aging
Design for Aging: 6 Articles That Highlight This Field's Enormous Opportunities and Challenges
In the October issue, Metropolis Magazine took a deep dive into design for aging—a field that presents enormous design opportunities and a daunting challenges.
KKE Architects Fosters Warmth and Tranquility at New Hospice Facility in Wales
“Hospice is as much for the staff and relatives as it is for the patients,” says KKE Architects' director, Phil Kavanagh.
The U.S. Is Woefully Lacking Good Design for Dementia Patients
Innovative projects, like architect Junya Ishigami’s assisted living community of salvaged houses, point the way forward.
In New York City, a New Development Is Rebuilding a Community Lost 50 Years Ago
In 1967, this part of the Lower East Side was demolished—now some former residents are returning there to live in this Dattner Architects–designed senior housing project.
With Apartments, Gardens, Plazas, and Restaurants, Singapore Tests a Bold New Model for Intergenerational Housing
Designed by WOHA, the complex is a one-stop hub with 104 senior apartments and a host of connected facilities and amenities, including an embarrassment of outdoor riches.
How to Design for Seniors in Increasingly Unaffordable Cities
Metropolis spoke with architect Jonathan Kirschenfeld about strategies for designing affordable, high-quality homes for the elderly.
Student Designs Self-Navigating Fashion Line for the Blind
Parsons School of Design and AARP's "Disrupt Aging Design Challenge" asks students to design solutions for older clients. Camila Chiriboga's winning design helps blind wearers navigate the world, fashionably.
Amazin Apartments: How The Internet of Things Will Alter Our Homes
A speculative installation from U.K. design firm Future Facility uses the idea of consumption via smart systems to make home life easier for the elderly.
How Yves Behar Is Putting Design & Technology in the Service of Aging
Two projects in the “New Old” exhibit at London’s Design Museum—a robotics-enhanced suit and a desktop companion—demonstrate a sea change in attitudes towards aging and technology.
Center for Healthy Living: A New Typology for Senior Facilities
Senior facilities are transforming into open centers that expand the concept of personal well-being
Winner of Tomorrow's Workplace Proposes Working Alongside Your Elders
The winning proposals for Tomorrow's Workplace Design Competition provocatively look to the broader community.
Connected Living Will Bring Boomers and Millennials Together
Every generation shapes its own lifestyle. But how can design build stronger bonds between people of all ages?
Sabi Space System Is the Perfect Baby Boomer Bathroom
The Sabi Space system is a sleek bathroom solution that plays both to millennials and the aging.
Want Universal Design? Make Technology More Intuitive
Designer Patricia Moore on the shortcomings of minimal compliance, and why she’s hopeful that technology can create a more inclusive built environment
Ahead of the Game: A Multi-Gen Recreation Center Prioritizes Wellness
A multigenerational recreation complex in Fort Washington, Maryland, sets a high standard for community facilities.
This Straw-Bale Housing Is Design to Empower Seniors
As the price of energy efficient construction rises, some look for alternative approaches
Making Good on the "Universal" in Universal Design
The Runners-up: A new generation of designers takes on an ambitious set of pressing social challenges.
Bill Thomas: The Nursing Home Abolitionist
For decades the popular image of the typical nursing home has been one of confinement—a sort of hybrid hospital/prison. It features zonked-out old people tied to wheelchairs nodding off in long, featureless corridors or crying out for help from steel-framed…
