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Metropolis Magazine Architecture & Design At All Scales With its innovative graphic presentation and provocative voice, Metropolis shows how richly designed our world can be.

In the quest for why design happens in a certain way, Metropolis explores economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological contexts.

From collaborative office environments to welcoming workplace interiors, North American hardwood brings warmth, longevit...
09/06/2026

From collaborative office environments to welcoming workplace interiors, North American hardwood brings warmth, longevity, and natural character into modern professional spaces.

Learn more via Real American Hardwood or at the link: hardwoodanddesign.com

08/06/2026

Defy the Expected.

Beyond a showroom, Arktura's NeoCon 2026 space is where architecture meets art. Preview unreleased acoustic, metal & lighting innovations before the industry sees them.

June 8-10 • THE MART • Floor 10 # 154

See more at ARKTURA or at the link: https://arktura.com/chicago/

This Architecture Student Designs Through Productive FrictionGraduate architecture student EmaLee Davidson approaches de...
05/06/2026

This Architecture Student Designs Through Productive Friction

Graduate architecture student EmaLee Davidson approaches design as a critical and exploratory practice, using conceptual rigor and material experimentation to push projects beyond predictable outcomes. At UCLA , her work consistently challenges conventional assumptions about structure, landscape, and housing, engaging complexity rather than smoothing it away.

Read more at the link below!

https://metropolismag.com/profiles/emalee-davidson-designing-through-productive-friction/

Sound, life, and light re-harmonized for the built environment. Introducing MAGIC™, the Modular Acoustic Greenery + Illu...
04/06/2026

Sound, life, and light re-harmonized for the built environment. Introducing MAGIC™, the Modular Acoustic Greenery + Illumination Collection by CSI Creative.

Learn more via CSI Creative or at the link: https://bit.ly/4nqq0UH

What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About CitiesThe clearest through line across New York–based architecture, lands...
03/06/2026

What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About Cities

The clearest through line across New York–based architecture, landscape, and urban planning firm WXY’s varied portfolio can be found in an unexpected place: the restrooms and parking lot of Storm King’s new capital expansion project.

The questions guiding the design were deceptively simple: “How do you remove roads and treat parking in a way that makes it an environmental resource? How do you look at public washrooms as an opportunity to recognize different people’s relationships with gender, privacy, and use of natural resources?” asks Claire Weisz, the firm’s founding principal.

Read the full story below!
https://metropolismag.com/profiles/wxy-what-restrooms-parking-lots-teach-about-cities/

Photographer Morris Lum Gives Chinatowns the Attention They Deserve The photographs in Morris Lum’s new book, Chinatowns...
02/06/2026

Photographer Morris Lum Gives Chinatowns the Attention They Deserve

The photographs in Morris Lum’s new book, Chinatowns: Tong Yan Gaai, offer a glimpse into Chinatowns across North America, providing a more nuanced view into these ubiquitous spaces. Taken in 16 different Chinatowns spanning between 2012 to 2024, the photos show restaurants, souvenir shops, and temples, but also include images taken from inside benevolent societies, vacant malls, kung fu clubs, and alleyways inaccessible to the public.

The images are loosely arranged by visual themes or typologies, evoking a sense of movement and dynamism. The author notes, “I was thinking about how you would move in a Chinatown—You’re walking down the street and ‘Oh, here’s a shop, maybe I’ll jump inside for a minute and then come back out,’ then you go to the next space.”

Read the full story at the link below!

https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/photographer-morris-lum-gives-chinatowns-the-attention-they-deserve/

11 Products That Shape Space Through TextureWool, velvet, bouclé, chenille—this spring’s textile launches blend soft tou...
29/05/2026

11 Products That Shape Space Through Texture

Wool, velvet, bouclé, chenille—this spring’s textile launches blend soft touch with stimulating visuals to create memorable, tactile interiors.

1. Feel and Form by HDF Textiles
2. Pompeii by Wolf-Gordon
3. Textorial by Mohawk
4. Drift, Mesa, Peak, and Valley by
5. Solstice Collection by
6. FORMA Collection by Gensler for Warp & Weft
7. Linear Collection by Sabin .design

See the full list at the link below!

https://metropolismag.com/products/11-textiles-that-shape-space-through-texture/

Join us at NeoCon for the 6th annual Sustainability Lab, located on Floor 11, Suite 1112.This year, we invite the A&D co...
28/05/2026

Join us at NeoCon for the 6th annual Sustainability Lab, located on Floor 11, Suite 1112.

This year, we invite the A&D community to explore new ways design can make a positive impact on people and the planet through engaging programs, interactive activations, and a curated look at the products, materials, and ideas shaping what comes next.

Our motto for the Sustainability Lab, “Good is Fun,” is a reminder that imagination, playfulness, and self-expression are essential to building a more planet-positive future.

Register for programming: https://metropolismag.com/programs/visit-metropoliss-sustainability-lab-at-neocon-2/

Glasgow’s O’DonnellBrown Balances Conservation and Community Centered DesignFrom one-off buildings to masterplans, the f...
28/05/2026

Glasgow’s O’DonnellBrown Balances Conservation and Community Centered Design

From one-off buildings to masterplans, the firm has developed a specialization in “taking often quite tricky,” vacant or historic buildings and sites across the UK and reimagining them, imbuing them with fresh purpose, functionality and, importantly, a “viable future” says Jennifer O’Donnell. “Often these are redundant public assets taken on by charitable organizations who have the drive and commitment to turn these buildings into assets that will be used by the community for years to come,” adds director Michael Dougall.

Read more at the link below.

https://metropolismag.com/profiles/glasgows-odonnellbrown-balances-conservation-and-community-centered-design/

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