A New Life for Dead Malls
Developers have had to to get creative when it comes to salvaging America’s failing shopping centers, turning them into hospitals, churches, and even parks.
Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, “I Would Not Want To Be A Designer”
The lauded Braun designer reveals how architecture has influenced his work, what Apple gets right, and the kind of design he truly hates.
Next Progressives: SurfaceDesign
San Francisco-based SurfaceDesign finds inspiration in cultural elements excavated from the sites upon which the firm works.
New Wing at Corning Museum of Glass Invites the Light
The new $64 million wing at the Corning Museum of Glass opens on March 20. Its three facades are entirely composed of oversized, almost seamless glass sheets, made opaque with
4 Reasons Why Design Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
VC design partner John Maeda says that the most successful tech companies of the future will really be design companies. Here’s why.
Cultural Venue Cubed
Colgate University to build $21 million Center for Art and Culture by David Adjaye.
The Case Against Open Design Competitions
Open design competitions might seem democratic, but they’re a lot of wasted work by a lot of talented people.
Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building
Mies Van Der Rohe’s famed New York city skyscraper is the mid-century modernist equivalent of the gigantic hit record.
Michael Graves, Prolific Architect, Dies at 80
Michael Graves was first associated with the New York Five, a group of prominent architects that achieved cultish stature by helping to redefine modernism during the 1970s.
It’s Time for Architecture to Celebrate Diversity
Metropolis’s editor in chief looks forward to a more diverse architectural field.
In San Francisco, Affordable Housing with Imagination
Local firm, David Baker Architects converts a derelict motel into affordable and sustainable housing for people who were formerly homeless in the city’s needy Bayview neighborhood.
TriBeCa Synagogue’s Memorable Building and Stubborn Architect
The TriBeCa Synagogue’s potbellied sanctuary was designed by the architect William N. Breger.
Sarasota Museum of Art Names New Executive Director
Anne-Marie Russell, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, has been named executive director for the Sarasota Museum of Art.
Frei Otto Wins The 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The 89 year old architect and engineer known for his daring glass and steel superstructures including the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium.
Architect Visit: The Medieval Mist and Mystery of Big Sur
San Francisco-based architect Anne Fougeron designed a three-bedroom house with dramatic views (and the requisite walls of glass) and Marin-based landscape architect Eric Blasen surrounded it with a garden that thrives
L.A.’s Longest Building Fits An Entire Neighborhood Under One Roof
Architect Michael Maltzan’s latest housing development is a social experiment stretched over a quarter of a mile.
Legislators Fail to Save Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center
A vote to save Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Goverment Center in Goshen, N.Y., was unsuccessful.
Architectural Renderings Reveal Narrow Vision Of The Future
In tomorrow’s San Francisco, every adult who matters looks as if he or she arrived on a Google bus. The men are stylishly scruffy. The women are lissome and poised. These
Michael Kimmelman on Architecture Criticism and Dangers of Demolition
A government building in Goshen, N.Y., designed by the noted architect Paul Rudolph, will be demolished unless legislators act this week.
The Shape of Things to Come
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Not Easy to Love
The 1960s style known as Brutalism has always been controversial. Now, Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center is facing destructive renovations—or even demolition.
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design 03.14 – 09.13 2015
From March 2015, a major exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum sheds new light on contemporary African design.
What The Googleplex’s Original Architect Thinks Of Google’s New Headquarters
Clive Wilkinson Architects designed the first Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. It was 2 million square feet—Pentagon-scale architecture.
Toshiko Mori’s Ecological Cultural Center In Senegal Set To Open
New York-based studio Toshiko Mori has designed the ecological thread cultural center for the village of Sinthian in Senegal.