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Sensors, Privacy, Data, and the High-Tech Workplace
The panelists, from left to right: Avinash Rajagopal, Metropolis editor-in-chief; Doug Sitzes, AECOM’s Western regional workplace leader for strategy; Michael Rosenberg, associate at Kirkland &...
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A 3D-Printed Installation, Made With Sustainable Bioplastics, Debuts at Milan...
Conifera was open to the public from April 9 to 14; its bioplastic bricks will be decomposed after disassembly. Courtesy COS Amid the chaos of Milan Design Week, the garden and courtyard at Palazzo...
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Google Used Sensors to Connect Neurology and Aesthetics at Milan Design Week
One of the rooms inside A Space for Being, which was open April 9 through 14 in Milan. Courtesy Maremosso Faced with audiences that rely on digital devices for immediate satisfaction, many of today’s...
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Leveraging Data to Help Plan Better Cities
The panelists from left to right: Stefan Al, senior mobility specialist, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF); David Gilford, principal, HR&A Advisors; William Carry, senior director, policy group, NYCDOT; Iben...
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Bridging the Gap Between Everyday Citizens and New Smart Cities Tech
The panel “Does Big Data Mean Better Living?” with (from left to right) moderator Story Bellows, partner, Cityfi; Adrienne Schmoeker, deputy chief analytics officer, City of New York; Liora Schechter,...
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How the Shed Effortlessly Glides Open and Closed
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s (DS+R) performing arts center the Shed attaches itself to the base of the Bloomberg Building, also designed by DS+R (its first tower), but points in the direction of the...
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Sidewalk Labs Releases Master Plan for Its Toronto Smart City Development
A summertime view of Parliament Slip. This small inlet would become a focal point in Sidewalk Lab’s proposed plan for Quayside, a neighborhood on the Toronto waterfront. The Slip would face Parliament...
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At Boston’s BSA Space, a New Exhibition Explores the Latest Smart City Tech
Balancing Act: Urbanism & Emerging Technologies is supported by the AIA and CBT, a Boston-based design firm. The show is on view at the top floor of the Boston Society of Architects’ exhibition...
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SFMOMA Ventures Into Outer Space With Its Latest Design Exhibit
Rick Guidice, Toroidal Colonies, cutaway view exposing the interior, 1976 Courtesy NASA Ames Research Center History Archives Opening just after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a...
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New Exhibition Contemplates the Past, Present, and Future of the Workplace
Courtesy A/D/O by MINI At first glance, A/D/O by MINI appears to be many things—a café/restaurant, trendy shop, exhibition space—but it certainly doesn’t look like an office. Sure, there are a few rows...
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Vectorworks BIM Software Helps this Architecture Firm Make a Big Impact
Sponsored by: “I think my team appreciates that their best talents are being put to use designing and not hacking away doing drawings and reproducing technical information,” says Chris Idle, whose...
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High Tech Timber
BUILDING BLOCKS – A studio project from Casey Rehm’s AI Assemblies course at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Courtesy Sci-Arc Thinking sustainably about design allows—compels—one to make connections between...
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9 Highlights from CES 2020: Metropolis’s Picks from the Innovation Awards
As in past years’ editions, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year exhibited an attention to tech wearables, which can involve fields as disparate as fashion, accessibility, wellness, textile...
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In the Driverless City, How Will Our Streets Be Used?
Courtesy Carlo Ratti Associati Many of our hopes and anxieties surrounding the advent of the so-called smart city find their clearest expression in the driverless car. Suggesting the prospect of more...
View ArticleWatch DesignTV by SANDOW, Including Digital Programming from Metropolis
SANDOW design brands Interior Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, Metropolis, Galerie, and ThinkLab will introduce DesignTV by SANDOW, which begins airing Monday, March 30. Each day will feature up to...
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10 Minimal Light Fixtures That Turn Technology into Poetry
LÁMINA Antoni Arola’s simple and dainty lighting system packs a high color rendering index of 90. SANTA & COLE santacole.com Courtesy SANTA & COLE Few luminaires illustrate the current trend to...
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To Help Fight COVID-19, Manufacturers are Creating Devices and Services for...
ROOM, a manufacturer of privacy booths, has re-engineered its signature product to serve as a safe zone in which doctors can administer COVID-19 tests. The so-called Test Booth is a partial acrylic...
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Can Indigenous Technology Point the Way to a More Sustainable Future?
In compiling an atlas of indigenous design systems that achieve symbiosis with the natural world, Julia Watson seeks to create an alternative mythology of technology that prioritizes lesser known,...
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Can Generative Design Save Brick-and-Mortar Retail?
Courtesy Stamhuis Ron Rijkers loves the board game Battleship, wherein players “design” and deploy multiple ships of various sizes with colored pegs across a grid, hoping their configurations best...
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Monograph Responds to Need for Effective Record Keeping Online
Monograph, a multiuse cloud-based software is a project management tool designed specifically for architects and designers. Courtesy Monograph For many architecture firms in 2020, the shift to remote...
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