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CES 2018: Find All Our Coverage Here
Ford aims to supply the autonomous vehicles (AVs) as well as the digital operating system for the future’s multi-modal transit networks At CES, Metropolis sat down with Jessica Robinson, Ford’s...
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As Technology Reshapes Cities’ Economies and Daily Life, We Risk Widening...
SOM is leading the redesign of the James A. Farley Post Office into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, a rail station that will anchor real estate development on Manhattan’s Far West Side.© Empire...
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St. Louis Arch Renovations Aim to Revitalize an Eero Saarinen and Dan Kiley...
©Gateway Arch Park Foundation The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, home to the St. Louis Gateway Arch, has a long, protracted history. The original proposal for the memorial and grounds was...
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Washington D.C.’s Riverfront Holds Vast Untapped Development Potential
The Wharf, a $2 billion mixed-use development on Washington D.C. waterfront, features this 300,000-square-foot, 10-story hotel by SmithGroupJJR. The building houses a Canopy by Hilton and a Hyatt...
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New Journal Delves into the Political Realities of Architecture and Urban...
The debut issue of Take Shape—a new journal about the intersection of architecture and politics—is devoted to lofts and includes a wealth of textual and visual perspectives and resources on the...
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This Tiny Amsterdam Neighborhood Is a Prototype for Grassroots Urban Planning
To aid in peer-to-peer knowledge sharing among self-builders and organizers in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam, The Hackable City group created a phone app dubbed The International Building Exhibition App....
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Preview James Corner Field Operations’ New Brooklyn Park
Portions of the park’s platform were raised three to seven feet from their previous levels, elevating the entire park well above the site’s 100-year floodplain. This also makes the park level with the...
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Secret Cities: Upcoming Exhibition Will Explore the Architecture and Planning...
SOM’s wartime efforts in Oak Ridge extended into postwar redevelopment with permanent housing. Seen here: Postwar housing by SOM, Oak Ridge, 1948. SOM © Torkel Korling, compliments of Skidmore, Owings...
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This Book Imagines How Cities Let Humanity Survive Cataclysmic Climate Change
In the world imagined by 2100: A Dystopian Utopia, polar regions have become more habitable and host megacities like this one in Troll, Antarctica. Courtesy UR (Urban Research), the publishing imprint...
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Smart Cities Conference Raises Concerns About Those Left Behind by Technology
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at Smart Cities New York, which ran from May 8 – 10 in New York City. Courtesy Smart Cities New YorkChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn’t known for pulling punches, and...
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New Talent 2018: Nonprofit LA-Más Is Revitalizing Los Angeles’s Overlooked...
LA-Más is directed by Elizabeth Timme, left, who helms the organization’s design, and Helen Leung, right, who leads its policy and community-facing functions. Courtesy Brian GuidoOur annual New Talent...
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The New Development That Promises to Transform Boston’s Waterfront
OMA is designing 88 Seaport, one of the many new towers planned for the Boston Seaport development. 88 Seaport will include just over 430,000 square feet of office and 60,000 square feet of retail....
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In New York City, a Bold Urban Plan Seeks to Revitalize Miles of Shoreline
Flushing Bay is located near Citi Field and the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, meaning simple wayfinding and lighting improvements could bring thousands of new visitors to the bay’s...
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The Miller Hull Partnership Proposes Turning a Defunct Seattle Tunnel Into a...
The Miller Hull Partnership has proposed removing the roof of Seattle’s defunct Battery Street Tunnel, converting it into a landscaped ravine. The proposal would see the tunnel’s structural beams...
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Landscape May Be Architects’ Best Tool for Tackling Inequality
The Chicago Riverwalk, designed in part by Ross Barney Architects (RBA). Courtesy Kate JoyceOften described as the most American of American cities, Chicago has developed a particularly virulent strain...
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Lessons on Participatory Design from San Francisco
Perkin Eastman’s design for the Harvey Milk Plaza Courtesy Perkins Eastman Developed in Scandinavia in the 1970s to give factory workers a voice in improving their working conditions and processes,...
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Let There Be…Real Estate? How Developers and Churches Are Joining Forces in...
Developer Thornsett Group worked with London’s Bethnal Green Mission Church to realize fourteen condominiums and a new church, all located within the same building (seen here). Courtesy Jack Hobhouse...
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Urban Planning Lessons from the D.C. Region
From left to right: Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis director of design innovation; Barbara Mullenex, managing principal, Perkins Eastman; Matt Ginivan, senior vice president of real estate development,...
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Year in Review 2018: Whose Resilient Future?
Resilient Equity Hubs— a part of the author’s All Bay Collective “Estuary Commons” proposal for San Leandro Bay in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge—form alliances across political...
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Bjarke Ingels Group Makes Its Own Proposal for Brooklyn’s Looming BQE Repairs
Aerial view of BIG’s Brooklyn-Queens Park (BQP) proposal Courtesy BIG The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), completed in 1954, is a testament to postwar American ingenuity. Where it passes Brooklyn...
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