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1 month ago | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
Designers Shani Nahum, Pauline van Dongen, Yvonne Mak, and Mireille Steinhage are imagining a future where solar textiles are the norm. By: Jaxson StoneSHANI NAHUMNahum is a multidisciplinary designer who integrates graphic design, product design, and textiles into her work.
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2 months ago | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
3form, Corian, Cosentino, and Wilsonart offer some of the most transparent surfacing products on the market. Cosentino reduces negative environmental impact across its value chain by committing to eco-conscious practices across all operations. The company runs on 100 percent renewable energy and recirculates 99 percent of the water it uses, with none of it being discharged into local waterways.
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2 months ago | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
The Berkeley, California–based architect’s new venture blends ancestral and artificial intelligence to create 3D-printed houses out of earth. Ronald Rael has long been known for pushing the boundaries of design by combining technology with social and environmental critique—whether that be through his ongoing research on architecture at the U.S.–Mexico border or his 17 years of experimentation with 3D-printed architecture and objects.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
The Harvard Loeb Fellow is rethinking water scarcity and abundance through his Reserva el Peñón project in in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. By: Jaxson StoneAlberto Kritzler is a Mexican developer focused on adaptive reuse, urban density, and living systems. He co-founded Reurbano, a platform in Mexico City that revitalizes buildings, reactivates street life, and reimagines urban living.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
Funded by architectural nonprofit re:arc institute, Latin and Central American practices are designing with water to create urban spaces for planetary well-being. “Rivers have a memory,” said Colombian environmentalist Josefina Klinger Zúñiga, during a day of dialogue at re:arc institute’s Architecture of Planetary Well-being symposium hosted in Bogotá, Colombia, at the beginning of this year. She continued: “If you want to learn about values, read the water.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
From 3D-printed date seeds to moss-covered facade panels, these projects showcase how bio-based materials are shaping the future of design. This year’s iteration of Dutch Design Week (DDW) brought together the most forward-thinking ideas in design, sustainability, and biotechnology. From mycelium coffins to moss-infused facade panels, the following projects and products push the boundaries of bio-based materials, highlighting the potential of renewable and circular design.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
In an exclusive webinar, METROPOLIS partnered with Turf, bringing together interior design’s best minds in sound and acoustic design. How can we change our thought process around good acoustic design from a “nice-to-have” to a “have-to-have”? On October 17, METROPOLIS partnered with acoustic solutions company, Turf, on a webinar that discussed the critical role of sound in the built environment.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
Films like Poor Things and Blade Runner rely on design icons and architectural references to imagine different realities. Science fiction is everywhere. What once were visions solely to be found in mass-market paperbacks now populate our everyday. After all, the opening scene in the 2023 blockbuster Barbie wouldn’t have been instantly recognizable to so many without the widespread cultural impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
A brand-new task chair comes out of decades-long evidence-based research into wheelchair design and the human body. WHEN YOU LOOK AT OR SIT IN an Anthros chair, its name makes sense. Anthro is a prefix that means “human,” and Anthros chairs are clearly designed with every part of the human body in mind. The Anthros chair launched last September and is the first offering from the Grand Rapids, Michigan–based company founded by Steven DuFresne and Eric Murphy.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
metropolismag.com | Jaxson Stone
METROPOLIS sits down with designer and color expert Laura Guido-Clark to learn more about her nonprofit Project Color Corps and color methodology Love Good Color. For Laura Guido-Clark, color isn’t just a “nice to have” option in design—it’s essential. The California-based designer and color authority has over 20 years of experience in designing the “skin” of consumer products—color, material, and finishes—and has worked with companies including Herman Miller, HP, Samsung, and Toyota.
