Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Metropolis Mag

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Metropolis Mag

Archive »Architecture

	Q&A: Cara Michell and Courtney D. Sharpe on the Urgency of the Black in Design Conference The organizers of the long-overdue symposium explain how the event addressed social injustice through design. Tamy Cozier
	Science Spectacle When it is completed next summer, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami will feature the world's most cutting-edge planetarium. Avinash Rajagopal
	Setting the Table 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 important activity and make it the central focus of the workday. Anthony Paletta
	Hugh Hardy Reflects on 50 Years of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission The noted architect argues for preservationists to look beyond “ageist” conventions to consider the important buildings of our day. Hugh Hardy
	Intuitive Connection The Swiss master Peter Zumthor and the young Paraguayan architect Gloria Cabral have developed an architectural bond that goes beyond language. Paul Clemence
	A Roof for Everyone The Center for Architecture's "Designing Affordability" opens many more areas for engagement between architecture and activism. A.J.P. Artemel
	Creative Class A quest for educational legacy provided the inspiration for Centro, a design and creative industries university in Mexico City. Shannon Sharpe
	Double or Nothing The new Broad museum shines in places, but ultimately suffers by adhering too closely to the strained rhetoric of its architects. David Huber