July-August 2015

	Vintage Modern You don't know his name, but you definitely know his work: Irving Harper, the man behind George Nelson's Marshmallow Sofa. Paul Makovsky
	The Digitally Connected Century Can Revitalize Tears in the Urban-Natural Fabric of Our Cities The Lost Spaces 2015 Ideas Competition asked designers to produce projects that would restore Calgary's forgotten or neglected urban spaces. Susan S. Szenasy
	The World's Most Livable Cities Metropolis ranks the best cities to live, work, and play in. Metropolis editors
	Designing Outdoor Public Spaces is Vital to the Future of our Cities The vice president of design and marketing at Landscape Forms calls on the outdoor-furniture industry to build the collaborations that will shape the metropolitan experiences of tomorrow. Kirt Martin
	Retirement Reboot Architect and urban studies expert Deane Simpson discusses aging in place and rethinking senior citizen communities. Avinash Rajagopal
	Creating Communities In America, nineteen million low-income families are “housing insecure.” Housing specialist Katie Swenson discusses different strategies to begin tackling this urgent issue. Avinash Rajagopal
	Koolhaas Talks Prada The renowned architect and polemicist speaks to Metropolis about the Fondazione Prada and rethinking the relationship between architecture and art. Catherine Shaw
	Spanish Spaces The division between life and labor is disappearing, as was demonstrated by the LiveWork SpanishStyle Design installation at NeoCon 2015. Estefanía Acosta de la Peña
	Sculptural Stacks Cornell University's planned Ho Fine Arts Library will feature a technology-driven design that hopes to balance digital databases with the printed word. AJ Artemel
	Hotel Disco Once a haunt for hedonists, Paris’s Les Bains gets the boutique hotel treatment. Mikki Brammer
	Cloaked Cabin Architect Tom Kundig evokes the spirit of the San Juan Islands in a mechanized house that literally invites the outdoors in. Fred Moody