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November 2002

Features

When Less Is Moore
by John King
The Moore Foundation pushes Gensler for the greenest headquarters possible. Despite the hype for sustainable design, the limitations remain daunting.

Bollywood Babylon
by Douglas McGray
India's famously prodigious film industry spawns a market for vintage movie posters.

Measuring the Competition
by Marc Kristal
Eyebeam's quest to house its new-media museum reveals that design competitions--for all their pros and cons--can be good for architecture.

Yokohama's Custom-Made Ferry Terminal
by Lucy Bullivant
Two young architects pull off the commission of a lifetime.

Toy Story
by Douglas McGray
Working from the Mecca of cheap plastic products--Hong Kong--artist Michael Lau has elevated the action figure from lowly toy to high design object.

Reimagining Work
by Paul Makovsky and Susan S. Szenasy
Six experts--spanning seven decades--offer up their perspectives on the future of the office.

Modernism and the Perfect
by Natalia Ilyin
Idealizing the cool, the killer, the cutting-edge, our author argues, denies an essential piece of our souls.

Creating a View
by Alexander Gorlin
An architect recounts the triumphs (and compromises) behind a recent house renovation.


Departments

Notes from Metropolis
The vision thing.

The Metropolis Observed
An out-of-office experience; escape to Iron Mountain; punk-rock urbanism; dressing up the Museum of Sex; OMA does Oslo; FLW pops up again; the dangers of Documenta.

Perspective: The Cost of Good Intentions
by Daniel Akst
American homebuilders (and banks) display a distinct bias against contemporary architecture.

In Production: Fluid Surfaces
Douglas Fanning's Ori table.

Teaching Green
A special supplement on sustainable-design education.

Far Corner: Going Hungry
by Philip Nobel
The new Irish Hunger Memorial provides a cautionary tale to planners contemplating a memorial at Ground Zero.

Productsphere: Tools of the Trade
Designers develop the right equipment for any task.

In Review
Nathan Silver on John Simpson's Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and Norman Foster's new London City Hall.

Up & Coming
Upcoming events and conferences.

Reference Page
More information on people and places covered in this issue.

Ben Katchor
The Single Server.


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