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Gabled Roofs Experience a Revival Across North America
Architects explore the patriotism associated with pitched roofs and share how they’re reimagining this staple of suburban house styles.
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What’s Hot in Interiors: Products that Tell You to Take a Hike
Less campy, more camping. Right now, designs in lighting, furniture, and surfaces are all about the great outdoors.
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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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Products
Trend: Cork Look
Metropolis rounds-up eight objects that embody designers' love of this earthy, natural material.
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Viewpoints
Top Design Trends of 2018: Forest Interiors
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Top Design Trends of 2018: Nordic Redux
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Top Design Trends of 2018: Look East
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Viewpoints
Top Design Trends of 2018: Trompe L’Oeil
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Top Design Trends of 2018: Deco Noir
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Top Design Trends of 2018: Elemental Forms
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re looking back at design fair debuts, taking stock of the visual and material themes driving the industry.
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Products
Here’s 2019’s Trendiest Color, According to Benjamin Moore
The paint company forecasts that its subdued gray shade "Metropolitan AF-690" will be a prominent interior trend to watch next year.
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Products
Trend Alert: Circular Logic
Arcs and circles are making an appearance in all manner of furnishings and accessories, restoring a sense of balance to the universe.
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Products
Trend Alert: Going for the Gold
Gold is back, but the most on-trend furnishings and accessories exhibit a modest sort of opulence, writes our editor-in-chief.
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Viewpoints
Don’t Be Afraid of Character, Say These Biennial Participants
Architecture can be funny, eliciting a laugh or a smirk. It can have a backstory. It can be a character in an urban drama. But how far do you push it?
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The Architectural “Blob” is Dead, Long Live the “Pile”
The blob ostensibly obliterated the culture of tectonics within architecture, but it was a short-lived fad. Interest has shifted again toward a loosely “aformal” approach—the pile. What are the consequences of arch
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Projects
Makers, Users Co-Create Tech Products That Make Disability Manageable
Tel Aviv-based start-up Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) hosts maker-marathons to brainstorm a new generation of assisted devices.
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Projects
Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing
Setting a design concept to pencil and paper was once considered a core architectural act, but the past two decades’ culture of digital rendering almost killed it. Almost.
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Viewpoints
Game-Changing Generation: The Builders Are Coming
Matching the flower children in numbers and commitment, the generation born between 1997 and 2015 will be the "Builder Generation," according to a recently released trend report.
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Viewpoints
From Shaker Chic to High-Tech Husbandry, Reflecting the Rural in Design
The countryside continues to underpin our urban imaginings.
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Projects
Snøhetta Makes the Daily Lunch Break the Central Focus of Its Workplace
Fewer than 20 percent of American office workers take a lunch break, partly because the average workplace doesn’t have a lunch room. Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed its own offices to accommodate this importan