Monday, February 22, 2010

Metropolis (January 2010)

The latest issue of Metropolis is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

FEATURES
  • WHAT'S NEXT: THE 1-5-10 ISSUE Prescriptions for the future in the form of predictions - from the wildly speculative to the intensely pragmatic by Suzanne LaBarre with Kristi Cameron, Paul Makovsky, and Martin C. Pedersen
  • BACK TO THE FUTURE A school dedicated to design-based learning opens in the very building where GM's legendary Harley Earl became the father of the modern car by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
  • THE PRIDE OF EAST 103RD STREET A new middle school in Harlem pairs its stubborn and visionary founder with the building's equally stubborn and visionary architect by Suzanne LaBarre

DEPARTMENTS

METROPOLISMAG.COM New and exclusive on the Web

NOTES FROM METROPOLIS Held in drought-plagued Phoenix, Greenbuild 2009 had water on its mind

DIALOGUE Readers' letters

OBSERVED

  • Moorish Accents A renovation inflected with traditional details returns Morocco's La Mamounia hotel to its roots.
  • An Olympic Feat For this year's Games, Omer Arbel delivers medals of daring simplicity.
  • Cabin Upgrade The Boy Scouts commission sustainable accommodations for a Catalina campground.
  • Tropical Towers WOHA is steadily building a portfolio of tall buildings suitable for the Global South.
  • Teatime/Grand Obsession A designer's fascination with a virtual object, and a photographer's with a historic building.

AMERICA At the Standard, André Balazs's High Line - straddling hotel, the show is on both sides of the glass by Karrie Jacobs

IN PRODUCTION Scot Herbst restyles the classic kids' ride.

MATERIALS Coverings Etc finds a way to make tile from recycled aircraft aluminum.

PRODUCTSPHERE Products that highlight the promising partnership of haute couture and industrial design

TEXT MESSAGE Bjarke Ingels, the founding principal of BIG, talks about refurbishing the surface of the planet, the big question, and the runner's high.

REFERENCE More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis

BEN KATCHOR SayUSaw.com

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