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Google’s Ivy Ross Makes Sense of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with Ivy Ross, Google's vice president of hardware design, to discuss Making Sense of Color, now on view during Salone del Mobile 2024.
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Can the Tech Industry Learn to Be a Good Neighbor?
In Culver City, California, a tech boom has reshaped the urban fabric, and not everyone is happy about it.
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Will the Pandemic Improve Remote Work?
Before the pandemic, telework— for all its virtues—could be messy, ergonomically awkward, and emotionally challenging. What’s changed now?
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How Arts & Culture Became a Quarantine Juggernaut
The Google platform works with local curators and archivists to present museum-quality exhibitions online.
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From the Metropolis Archives: Designing the First “Googleplex” Office
Originally published in July 2006, this article explores an early exemplar of tech workplaces: Clive Wilkinson Architects' design for Google's Mountain View HQ.
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Google Used Sensors to Connect Neurology and Aesthetics at Milan Design Week
The tech giant’s installation, A Space for Being, studied visitors’ neurological responses to different interiors. The project was a collaboration with architect Suchi Reddy, furniture brand Muuto, and John Ho
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Products
Leather from Pineapple Leaves? New Sustainable Textiles Tap Unexpected Sources
Textile design is, to say the least, a varied field. High-tech woven wearables seem far removed from efforts to grow climate-beneficial fibers, and further still from more everyday concerns, like improving commercial uph
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Google’s 2017 Product Lineup Fuses Smart Technology and Good Design
Tomorrow, the tech giant launches pop-up stores in New York City and Los Angeles to promote its second generation of consumer products.
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Projects
Sidewalk Labs Announces New Smart City District For Toronto
“Sidewalk Toronto” will aim to generate "sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity" to more than 800 acres of waterfront.
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Programs
Gensler, Google on The Workplace Campus, Today and Tomorrow
Gensler Los Angeles and their clients Google and L.A.’s Riot Games discuss the revolutionary shifts that have enabled workers to shape their time and space at work.
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Programs
The Workplace Campus: Today and Tomorrow
Susan S. Szenasy talks with the principals of Gensler Los Angeles, their clients Google, and L.A.’s Riot Games on the revolutionary shifts that have enabled workers to shape their time and space at work.
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The Venice Biennale’s Many Inequalities, In Map Form
Why should the best-located national pavilions, established over a century ago, assume importance by default, while more populous or powerful nations struggle for attention?
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Top Designers Invent Uniforms for Imaginary Jobs
Famed designers, from Angela Missoni to Vivienne Westwood, playfully reimagine the workwear of today and tomorrow.
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Critics Respond to BIG and Thomas Heatherwick’s Plans for New Googleplex
The ambitious proposed additions to the Internet giant's headquarters have been met with skepticism and reservations.
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Viewpoints
Who Will Control the Internet of Things?
On one side, giants like Google and Cisco. On the other side, Thingful and the open data movement.
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Products
In This Age of Ubiquitous Computing, What Are We Doing to Our Bodies?
In this age of ubiquitous computing, what exactly are we doing to our bodies?
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A Design Award That Rewards Urban Play
The Playable City Award envisions fun ways to engage with urban environments.
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Projects
Behind the Glass Curtain: The Design Process for Google’s New HQ
Google’s new headquarters balances its utopian desire for transparency with its very real need for privacy.