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Shear Perfection
Metropolis Magazine

Shear Perfection

One designer hopes to revive a once-profitable Dutch wool industry by drawing on local inspiration.

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March 2017
Materials Private Life
Metropolis Magazine

Materials Private Life

Carnegie’s Panorama privacy curtains use innovative manufacturing methods to offer better aesthetics and performance in health-care spaces.

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May 2018
Building Details Light Relief
Metropolis Magazine

Building Details Light Relief

USG–Ceilings Plus’s design for a biomedical company auditorium keeps its users in mind, sparing no functional—or aesthetic—capacity.

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May 2018
Made Opening Number
Metropolis Magazine

Made Opening Number

Preludia, the new contract collection designed by Brad Ascalon for Carl Hansen & Søn, is anything but one-note.

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May 2018
Building Details Screen Saver
Metropolis Magazine

Building Details Screen Saver

Terra-cotta cladding brings durability, color, and contemporary style to the University of Michigan’s newest building.

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June 2018
Metropolis Thinktank
Metropolis Magazine

Metropolis Thinktank

Building Resilience From the Ground Up

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June 2018
Exhibition
Metropolis Magazine

Exhibition

Marfa Comes to California

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June 2018
Book
Metropolis Magazine

Book

Designing Women

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June 2018
Retail
Metropolis Magazine

Retail

Now You See It

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June 2018
Ancient Modern
Metropolis Magazine

Ancient Modern

A contemporary project by Emre Arolat takes a bold approach to historic preservation by suspending a 21st-century hotel over the ruins of a late-Roman metropolis.

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April 2019
Solar Salutation
Metropolis Magazine

Solar Salutation

The form of Jeanne Gang’s newest apartment tower tells you where on the planet it is.

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April 2019
Paint The Town Red
Metropolis Magazine

Paint The Town Red

In San Antonio, David Adjaye completes a new art gallery that takes its cues from regional referents.

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April 2019
Color And Light
Metropolis Magazine

Color And Light

Metropolis breaks down the spectrum, revealing how designers grapple with light across scales and typologies.

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April 2019
On The Waterfront
Metropolis Magazine

On The Waterfront

A new Brooklyn development makes peace with the East River.

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April 2019
True Blue
Metropolis Magazine

True Blue

In Focus Lighting’s work, color plays a supporting role, enlisted in the service of a wider narrative.

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April 2019
Ancient Modern
Metropolis Magazine

Ancient Modern

A contemporary project by Emre Arolat takes a bold approach to historic preservation by suspending a 21st-century hotel over the ruins of a late-Roman metropolis.

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4 mins  |
April 2019
Paint The Town Red
Metropolis Magazine

Paint The Town Red

In San Antonio, David Adjaye completes a new art gallery that takes its cues from regional referents.

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6 mins  |
April 2019
True Blue
Metropolis Magazine

True Blue

In Focus Lighting’s work, color plays a supporting role, enlisted in the service of a wider narrative.

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3 mins  |
April 2019
Connecting The Dots
Metropolis Magazine

Connecting The Dots

Technology promises more connectivity than ever before. A brilliant case in point is Bluescape, a forward-thinking visual collaboration technology from Haworth that makes authentic, productive interactions easy.

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Haworth 70 years/Metropolis Supplement
Haworth: A History
Metropolis Magazine

Haworth: A History

From its modest beginnings, Haworth has grown into an innovative business that touches the lives of people around the world with its interiors and technology products. Chairman emeritus Dick Haworth and chairman Matthew Haworth recall some of the milestones in the company’s 70-year history.

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Haworth 70 years/Metropolis Supplement
Materials Murano Memories
Metropolis Magazine

Materials Murano Memories

Artistic Tile’s Fiammato pattern combines a centuries-old Italian technique with modern precision.

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September2018
Building Details Level Up
Metropolis Magazine

Building Details Level Up

An office tower is integrated with its surrounding landscape through an increasingly popular use of a classic building product.

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September2018
Hospitality A Suite Escape
Metropolis Magazine

Hospitality A Suite Escape

Foster + Partners transforms a Modernist municipal building in Hong Kong into a gleaming hotel, reconnecting it to the metropolis.

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September2018
School Of Thought
Metropolis Magazine

School Of Thought

In Camden, New Jersey, a new Perkins Eastman– designed nursing school refuses to turn its back on the city’s reviving center.

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July/August 2018
New York
Metropolis Magazine

New York

In New York City, Perkins+Will engages local activist groups to help shape the future of historic waterways.

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July/August 2018
Mexico City
Metropolis Magazine

Mexico City

The 2018 World Design Capital may be home to world-class, cosmopolitan design, but its architectural community is coalescing around a new mandate to help those in need— both in the core and on the periphery.

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July/August 2018
Mumbai
Metropolis Magazine

Mumbai

Case Design builds a school in India using the kind of architectural process that it believes is possible only in Mumbai—thoughtful, iterative, and craft-led.

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July/August 2018
Windy City Wunderkind
Metropolis Magazine

Windy City Wunderkind

With a passion for environmental graphics, Joe Lawton has built a thriving practice at the intersection of branding and the built environment.

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July/August 2018
Design For Aging
Metropolis Magazine

Design For Aging

Globally, the rate of growth for the 60-and-over population has surpassed that of every other generational group. This presents both an enormous design opportunity and a daunting challenge. In this section, we review diverse strategies and perspectives in the developing conversation around designing for aging.

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October 2018
Design For Aging-Community
Metropolis Magazine

Design For Aging-Community

On New York Citys Lower East Side, a new development is rebuilding a community that was lost 50 years ago.

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October 2018