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What If…We Could Save Our Coastal Cities by Treating Land Like Water?
All images Ennead Lab/Ennead Architects Whether we are vacationing at its shores, working in its harbors, or building along its many edges, we are drawn to water. Unsurprisingly, many of our greatest...
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A Village for Thought Leaders Breaks Ground on Powder Mountain
Summit is a planned community in the making. The Powder Mountain development will comprise 500 houses—each conforming to specific architectural guidelines—and a village core. The first neighborhood,...
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Migration Is a Complex and Urgent Spatial Challenge
Urban-Think Tank’s Empower Shack for Cape Town, South Africa Courtesy Daniel Schwartz/Urban-Think Tank Migration is a defining challenge for architects and designers today. But migration has always...
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New Exhibit Explores Race, Gender, Class, and More, in Frank Lloyd Wright’s...
Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem & Modern Housing installation view. Curated by The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate...
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After Irma and Harvey, Architects Advocate Network Calls for Action
Port Arthur, Texas on August 31, 2017 after Hurricane Harvey. Courtesy SC National Guard/Wikipedia Yesterday, news broke that eight elderly individuals at a nursing home in Florida had died due to an...
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Design Earth’s Drawings Play With Iconic Designs While Pushing Architecture...
Below the Water Towers, from Pacific Aquarium, 2016. Courtesy Design Earth Buckminster Fuller’s Manhattan dome has been repurposed to protect the ocean floor from contamination. Hans Hollein’s aircraft...
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Sidewalk Labs Announces New Smart City District For Toronto
Courtesy Sidewalk Toronto Sidewalk Labs’ long-rumored smart city development in Toronto has been made official. Sidewalk Labs, a New York–based subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, made the...
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Trash Talk: New Guidelines Show How Architects and Planners Can Clean Up Cities
Courtesy Center for Architecture “Waste is a design flaw,” announces Zero Waste Design Guidelines, a recently-unveiled book produced by AIA New York (AIANY). The book–much in the vein of the 2010...
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Five Years After Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers Reflect on the Storm’s Legacy
An aerial view of the New Jersey coast following Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in 2012. Courtesy U.S. Air Force photo/Mark C. Olsen This week marks five years since Hurricane Sandy, one of the most...
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AECOM and Van Alen Institute Reveal Urban SOS 2017 Finalists
The Holding Project Courtesy Sean Cullen and Chris Millar Cities don’t exist in a vacuum. Even though urban areas and their hinterlands are usually viewed separately, they’re deeply interconnected....
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The RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan Charts New York City’s Future
The RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan includes a recommendation to turn the New Jersey Meadowlands into a national park that would also absorb storm surges. Courtesy RPA Any New Yorker will tell you the...
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Kate Orff on Her New Project in Israel, What’s in Store for the Venice...
SCAPE is working with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy to develop a plan for New York City’s Gowanus Canal that anticipates denser development and sea level rise. Courtesy Gowanus Canal Conservancy and...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Redesigned the Suburbs—Today’s Architects Should Do the Same
Frank Lloyd Wright (center, in beret) overseeing the construction of the exhibition model for Broadacre City (1929–35) at Taliesin West. With Broadacre, Wright anticipated the phenomenon of sprawl and...
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“Resiliency” Has Lost Its Meaning: Why We Need a More Radical Approach
For architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa, adapting to sea level change is more important than resisting it. Its South Florida office developed an urban planning framework for dealing with the increasingly...
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Perkins+Will: Metropolis Article on Resiliency is “a Polemic and Counter to...
The Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, located in Boston and designed by Perkins+Will, was built 2.5 feet above the site’s 500 year floodplain to avoid flooding. Courtesy Anton Grassl/ ESTO The following...
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Metropolis’s 11 Big Ideas of 2017: The New Resiliency, Florence Knoll’s...
Rechristened the Wimbledon House after it was donated to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) for use as a research center, 22 Parkside—as it was previously known—was the home of the...
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The City is a Weapon: How Design Controls and Monitors Public Space
To the editors of The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion, the armrest is no innocent thing—it can be used to prevent the homeless from sleeping overnight on benches. The Archisuit is a project by...
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CES 2018: Why Smart City Data “Is the New Oil”
Launched last November, this driverless shuttle operates along a 3/5-mile loop in Las Vegas’s Fremont East entertainment district. It’s one of the city’s many transportation-related smart city...
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CES 2018: Why Cities Need to Start Addressing Cyber Security Challenges
The site where Sidewalk, whose parent company is the tech giant Alphabet, plans to build its smart city development in Toronto. Courtesy Sidewalk Toronto Metropolis magazine is reporting from CES in...
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CES 2018: Watch Our Interviews With Three Smart Cities Experts
Launched last November, this driverless shuttle operates along a 3/5-mile loop in Las Vegas’s Fremont East entertainment district. It’s one of the city’s many transportation-related smart city...
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