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Akiva Blander
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Profiles
RISD Students’ Innovations Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
In designs for projects like the Material Research Center in Santa Monica, California, Qing Yin uses convincing first-person drawings to articulate architectural concepts.
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OMA-designed AIR Circular Campus and Cooking Club Has Opened in Singapore
For its design of a dining hub in an upmarket part of Singapore, OMA and David Gianotten focused on circular flows of food, people, and materials.
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Tel Aviv’s Reuse Run Isn’t Just About Architecture
New projects at a range of scales and typologies reveal contestation around conservation and memory.
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Future100: Soundscapes Combat the “Tyranny of the Visual”
Two speculative projects examine how small-scale materials and objects can influence acoustic transmission and the experience of space.
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Future100: Learning At All Scales
Through concepts for education and play spaces, these three students introduce innovative ways to design for children.
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Q&A: Mariana Mogilevich on New York City’s Path to a More Democratic and Diverse Civic Realm
Upon the release of her book The Invention of Public Space, the architectural historian discusses a little-known but pivotal chapter of urban history.
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Examining James Wines’s Humanistic Approach to Sustainability
A new exhibition at Berlin's Museum for Architectural Drawing presents dozens of the architect-artist's imaginative and often sarcastic drawings.
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Open Gaza Advocates Social and Spatial Justice for the Beleaguered Strip
A new book edited by Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp offers speculative visions that prioritize the recovery of the people’s agency and humanity.
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Game Changers 2020: WXY and Future Green on Collaborative Urbanism
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Claire Weisz of WXY and David Seiter of Future Green discuss the complexities of designing within New York's diverse biomes and histories.
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Revisiting Ruth Adler Schnee’s Enduringly Modernist Legacy
Gropius and Saarinen taught Adler Schnee—97 next month—whose works microcosmically document the ebb and flow of streams of Modernism.
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Berlin Architects Draw on Traditional Building Techniques for Kurdish Safe Haven
The Healing Garden in Iraqi Kurdistan provides animal therapy, basic medical care, and community spaces.
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Products
8 Lighting Releases That Show the Best Design is Often Hidden in Plain View
Recent lighting products can take a minimal form, seemingly dissolving into the spatial ether, or manifest more arrestingly.
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Products
High Mineral Content: Geology-Inflected Designs Take Over
From furniture to accessories, surfaces to lighting, Metropolis digs up the latest designs that rock.
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Profiles
Planning For (In)Justice: Toni Griffin’s Mission to Foster Equitable Cities
Griffin founded the consultancy Urban Planning for the American City, which she complements with her pedagogical work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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From Playful Products to Clever Urban Interventions, New Affiliates Distills Design to Its Essence
Founded by Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, the New York–based firm creates visually pleasing design, but its most interesting work is cerebral.
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With Installation at Madison Square Park, Artist Leonardo Drew Ponders Temporality and Horizontality
“City in the Grass” marks a scaling up of a practice that has long investigated materiality and decay.
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Products
Estiluz’s New Circ Family Distills Lighting to Its Essentials
Another hackneyed release aimed at peripatetic minimalists Circ is not: The light’s cheeky proportions direct attention—gently and quite novelly—to its handle.
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Projects
Diamond Schmitt Architects Adapts a Historic Train Station for the Canadian Senate
The project leverages the building's opulent elegance, inserting strong nation-building imagery to create a new civic space and provisional home for the Senate.
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How Resilient Power Puerto Rico (RPPR) Is Building Sustainable Infrastructure and Strengthening Communities
Metropolis spoke with architect and RPPR president Jonathan Marvel about the initiative's work and what it aims to accomplish.
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Paul Kasmin’s New Chelsea Outpost Is a Refined Respite Among Its Glitzy Neighbors
Designed by Studio MDA, the new flagship art gallery makes a bold statement while maintaining a historical and aesthetic dialogue with its environs.