Inspiration

Designed around experience and time, ice skating rinks are some of the most interactive public space s.

One of the densest places in the world, it had a population of 5,259, more than 80,000 per square ki lometer.

From a hypnotic wall sconce to a suspended, animated grid of OLED triangles, we present nine recent lighting products that deftly play with geometry.

Quebecois architects Saucier + Perrotte have made a stunning contribution to their home city with th e Stade de Soccer de Montréal. Cementing Montreal’s place as a forward-thinking design destination, while also anchoring a massive redevelopment for the city’s urban landscape, the Stade has become much more than a simple soccer arena. To complete this ambitious…

"We almost immediately started dreaming and combining our ideas.”

From Turrell-esque skylights to curtain-walled staircases, the homes pictured use their architecture to frame a different New Zealand.

As a sequel to Never Built Los Angeles, Metropolis Books’ new publication Never Built New Yorkwas co -written by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, both of them architectural critics and historians. The launch of the book was recently hosted at the New York Public Library as a part of the LIVE from the NYPL program, and…

For more than 75 years, Symmons Industries has offered architects, designers and property owners bea utifully designed plumbing products for commercial and residential applications. Today, the brand still rolls out products that are built to last, designed to stand out and backed by a customer-first culture, while going a step further with the Symmons Design Studio™,…

Most end-of-year holiday celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere tend to take place around, or at le ast nearby, a fireplace. In the grand tradition of Christmas, where as the story goes, Santa shimmies down chimneys to deliver presents to children worldwide on Christmas Eve. The fireplace is the central totem of Christmas gatherings — a place…