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Materials Brilliant Walls
Philips innovates a simple solution that lights up interiors with vibrant patterns.
Light On The Land
In modernizing the student residences at Fallingwater, the key was a sensitive touch.
Ralph Knowles
Daylight isn’t the first urban-planning consideration, but it is among the most important. This pioneer in solar design has worked for half a century to spread the message.
Spectrum
An essential survey of architecture and design today
Furniture
Edge of the Seat
Hospitality
Spiritual Slumber
Furniture - All In One
Furniture - All In One
Materials Quiet Panic
Assa Abloy’s panic-door device suits up security with sophisticated form.
Art School Redux
Emily Carr University’s new Vancouver digs look to the future while remaining faithful to the past.
Community Colleges Step It Up
With major architecture firms getting involved, these formerly neglected institutions are having a design renaissance— and showing us how design could transform the American education system.
Designing Connections
The latest iteration of BIO, Ljubljana’s design biennale, aims at the full socialization of design and miraculously succeeds.
Scenographic
The recent popularity of architectural collage has led to a lot of cloning and some groaning. But collage is more than an aesthetic—it helps reconceive space in new, often scenographic ways.
Motley Harmony
The newly reopened Musée d’arts de Nantes, one of France’s great art institutions, unites four centuries of architectural styles.
The Big Pattern
Schumacher finds fresh purpose in new applications for Frank Lloyd Wright’s textiles and wall-coverings.
Sina Pearson's Next Act
After running her own textile company for 25 years, the designer is now bringing her brand and inimitable creative process to Momentum Group.
Mood Light
A quick Google search on Himalayan salt lamps dredges up link after link touting the health benefits of the pink mineral. While some claims are outlandish, like neutralizing electromagnetic radiation from cell phones, others, like mood enhancement, seem a bit more plausible—especially when the light looks as good as Brave Matter’s Archaic Modern pendant. “As a designer, I believe that objects we surround ourselves with have the power to influence the way we feel,” says Christina Zamora, cofounder of the Oakland, California–based design studio. The terraced clay luminaire, topped by a hefty brass disk and rounded salt bead, adds warmth to any space. “I could definitely see them in residential, retail, and hospitality environments,” says the industrial designer, who has also had interest from people designing for the wellness field because of the mineral’s purported effect on well-being. The Archaic Modern light is handcrafted and available in six shades ranging from a deep black Mica Ore to a muted Terra Pink.
New Talent Orkidstudio
For these architects, the best way to achieve social change is through the process of building.
Spiraling Summit
Frank Lloyd Wright’s single New York City public building is not a swaggering, self-glorifying monument but rather a kind of Rosetta stone to interpret a lifetime of ideas, argues a new book.
Adam Nathaniel Furman
Relying on his own imagination rather than trends for inspiration, Adam Nathaniel Furman— a master of surface and ornamentation—designs exuberant works at all manner of scales.
Shear Perfection
One designer hopes to revive a once-profitable Dutch wool industry by drawing on local inspiration.
Building Details
Now You See It Concealed curtain-wall details at Thomas Phifer and Partners’ new Glenstone Museum have big impact.
The Year In Exhibitions
If 2018 were an object, what would it look like? What would it feel like? And what would it say about design culture today? Metropolis surveyed museum exhibits, gallery shows, and pop-ups to find out. From a snake-sofa that unpacks the ethical implications of virtual reality to graphic tapestries that speak to material innovation, these five objects—all displayed this year—reveal latent truths about the present moment.
Development Green Gateway In Hongqiao
West of Shanghai, Gensler has designed a new symbol of China’s environmental coming-of-age.
History The Lonely Modernist
Maligned and forgotten for a generation, Paul Rudolph pursued the Modernist project even as it fell out of favor.
Working With Standards
Architects at the leading edge of sustainable building practices weigh the pros and cons of pursuing an array of ever-evolving “green” certifications.
The Green Imperative
A look back at pivotal sustainable projects reveals the outsize role of nonprofit and public-sector clients in driving change in the building industry.
Think Tank
Starting With People
Rainlight
Two product veterans launch their own studio.
Todd Bracher
In his strategic role, the designer is making user experience a priority in products.
Shimoda Design Group
For the expansion of its Mart showroom, Steelcase turned to its longtime collaborator.