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For This Artist-Centered Studio, Design Is Collaborative Storytelling
Los Angeles–based interiors studio Wall for Apricots partners with women and artists to create idiosyncratic designs that reflect the individuality, history,…
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Susan Lyons Discusses the Future of Contract Interiors with Metropolis
Part of this year’s Metropolis Specify Hot List, the president of textile manufacturer Designtex has led the company on sustainability efforts including…
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Jane Abernethy Insists on Walking the Talk
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Pearson Lloyd Views Office Furniture Differently
The U.K. design firm is part of Metropolis’s Speci…
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Stephen Burks Uses Global Design as a Means for a More Inclusive World
A prodigious industrial designer and part of Metro…
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Angie Lee Believes Connectivity is the Key to Progress
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Brian Peters’ 3D Printed Ceramics Merge Art and Technology
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Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids
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Ali Ucer Discusses How Graphics Can Engage Workers
Part of Metropolis’s Specify Hot List 2021 IA Interior Architects’ experiential graphics design director uses technology to create experiences that become a part of the space.
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From Circuit City to the Cheesecake Factory, Jake Longstreth Paints Suburbia
In a new monograph and exhibition at West Hollywood’s Nino Mier Gallery, the Los Angeles–based painter mines for beauty and meaning in retail chains.
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Micki Washington Is Working to Normalize Office Interiors with Universal Design
Part of Metropolis’s Specify Hot List 2021, the regional leader of HOK’s WorkPlace practice in Houston believes the best-designed spaces are focused on their users.
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Game Changers 2020: The Practices and People Changing Design
The 2020 summer issue of Metropolis highlights fresh thinkers and innovative solutions to issues ranging from climate change to the housing crisis.
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Julie Bargmann Is the Winner of the Inaugural Oberlander Prize; a “Pritzker Prize” for Landscape Architecture.
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For Merge Architects, Interiors Matter as Much as Facades
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Canadian Design Firm Ivy Studio Is Revolutionizing Contract Interiors
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Sandfuture, an Unconventional Biography of Minoru Yamasaki, Pushes the Boundaries of Architectural Writing
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