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BEHIND THE COVER
“Our cover each month is a collaboration between the art and
editorial departments,” says Dungjai Pungauthaikan, Metropolis’s
art director. “Sometimes the words inspire the image; other times
the image rules. This month we locked into our image very early
on. Bruce Demonte’s gorgeous shot of the house, photographed
at sunset, gave us an alluring glimpse into the life inside. To make
the building jump off the page, we took a risk that most magazines
wouldn’t by bringing the house to the forefront, covering more than
half of our masthead. We think the Metropolis logo is iconic enough
to withstand the slight obstruction.”
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NOTES FROM
METROPOLIS
This year’s Next
Generation entries
embraced a mission larger
than high-performance
buildings.
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DIALOGUE
Readers’ letters
and corrections
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OBSERVED
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An Optimized
Architecture
David Jameson tailors a glassy minimalist residence
to a lovely—and
tricky—woodland
site.
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Unlikely Alliances
An architect and a
landscape designer
outfit a fashion
showroom in steel
plate, lava stones,
leather, and pine.
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Buoyant Market
In the Netherlands,
floating houses are
going from quirky
one-offs to a viable,
pragmatic reality.
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Assigned
Seating/
In the Fold
At this year’s ICFF:
A painstakingly
realized student design and a laser-cut
stationery set
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The New Piazza
A boldly modern
cultural center
invigorates an ailing Italian town—
and could serve
as a model for the
entire country.
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Karrie Jacobs
AMERICA
PORTFOLIO
IN
PRODUCTION
Joint Venture
Assessing the
potential benefits
and limitations of a
product designer’s
ambitious foray
into structural
invention
44 /
Exuberant
Restraint
A young firm builds
an adventurous
rooftop addition
that remains invisible from the street.
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Total Designer
On the occasion of
a new retrospective of his work,
the legendary Wim
Crouwel reflects
on his six-decade
career.
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Terminal Velocity
Jürgen Mayer H.
designs and builds
a small ski-town
airport in just four
months.
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A recent series of
negative articles
about New York’s
transportation
commissioner
has our columnist
crying foul.
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A new Metropolis
Books title is proof
that architects
still draft their
ideas by hand.
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Stefan Diez borrows
car-manufacturing
technology for the
sheet-metal Chassis
chair.
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PRODUCTSPHERE
TEXT MESSAGE BOOKSHELF
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BEN
KATCHOR
Fifteen products and three
trends on display at this
month’s ICFF
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New and notable
books on architec-
ture, culture, and
design
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Jerry Helling talks about the
ultimate mentor, the joys of
whipped cream, and the dark
side of Apple.
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More information
on people, places,
and products covered in this issue
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Capital Crimes
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