Metropolis Magazine

For eleven years, MEXTRÓPOLI has been a space to reflect on the city through architecture, bringing together specialists, students, citizens, public servants, artists and journalists. The festival encourages the analysis and enjoyment of cities, one of humanity's greatest inventions. Today, more than ever, we are in urgent need to repair our cities. This year, the event will be attended by Lacaton & Vassal, winners of the 2021 Pritzker Prize, Manuel Cervantes, Benedeta Tagliabaue, Paulo Tavares, Caroline Bos, Ada Colau, Barbara Buser, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Arine Aprahamian, Vicente Guallart, Solano Benitez, Franceso Orsini, Josep Bohigas, Iñaqui Carnicero, and many more. The event will also include 7 exhibitions, 10 routes, 11 installations and various discussion tables. Arquine MEXTRÓPOLI | Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad. - Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/efbkx7pw 📷: MEXTROPOLI #metropolismagazine #mextropoli #arquine #lancanton&vassal #manuelcervantes #benetatagliabaue #adacolau 

Mission Rock: San Francisco’s Waterfront Future. Developed as a public-private partnership between the San Francisco Giants, Tishman Speyer, and the Port of San Francisco, it’s far more ambitious than most cities’ stadium-adjacent developments (aka Ballpark Villages), featuring office and residential buildings designed by MVRDV, Studio Gang, WORKac, and HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS SL; 40 percent affordable housing units; and active ground floor uses, highlighted by local retail favorites like Arsicault Bakery, Ikes Love & Sandwiches, and Proper Food. The newest piece, tying the project together and connecting it to San Francisco Bay, is the 5-acre China Basin Park, designed by New York-based SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC, whose local office is just around the corner. Their park, connected to the larger development via textured pedestrian paseos jutting between buildings, opens Mission Rock to stunning views of the stadium and the Bay Bridge—but it also protects it from quickly-emerging tidal threats via a soft, flexible approach that is slowly (perhaps too slowly) gaining steam in the U.S. “Business as usual is the sheet pile bulkhead,” says Orff. “How do you make that space between building and water something that is fluid and flexible, but understand that’s not a fixed edge?” https://lnkd.in/ep_WYTwH

Behind the Latest Megaproject to Rise Along Atlanta’s Beltline. The Atlanta Beltline, a 22-mile stretch of trails and parks atop a former railway corridor circling the core of Atlanta, was, when conceived at the turn of the Millennium, dismissed by many in the city as a waste of time and money, or even a “glorified sidewalk.” In the years since, it has blossomed into the most successful urban regenerator since New York’s High Line. Developer Jim Irwin, an Atlanta native, has been working along a formerly industrial section of the Beltline for over a decade. While with Jamestown LP, he helped lead the wildly successful adaptive reuse of a former Sears, Roebuck, and Co. store and distribution center into Ponce City Market, which has enlivened its neighborhood, the Old Fourth Ward, and spawned several new additions. Then he started his own company, New City Properties, LLC, and created 725 Ponce, a popular office and retail development with exposed concrete edges and oversized windows, rising over the Beltline on 60-foot columns. https://lnkd.in/gmhuDGGW

Poul Henningsen changed the way we all think about light and designed some of the world’s most iconic luminaires. Join us with Lumens and Louis Poulsen on September 24 for a live accredited webinar that will go deep into his legendary approach, plus how you can utilize these exceptional principles in your projects. #Sponsored https://lnkd.in/eEAnzaaY

Brazilian directors Ataliba Benaim and Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo point this out in their new documentary Biocentrics, which is set to premiere at The Architecture & Design Film Festival at the end of September in New York. The documentary is centered around the work of American author and biologist Janine Benyus, an advocate for using the 3.8 billion years of evolutionary innovation to inspire design systems that work alongside the planet’s processes. In 1997, Benyus wrote Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, and went on to found The Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit based in Missoula, Montana, in 2006. https://lnkd.in/eMsCdHp4

METROPOLIS’s Arch30 program recognizes the next generation of leadership in architecture, with leading firms in a city identifying their top talent under the age of 30. Each group meets for a workshop led by METROPOLIS editors, followed by networking opportunities with program partners. This past July, METROPOLIS honored its fifth cohort of young architects in Atlanta. The selected professionals from Atlanta represented NOMAtlanta and some of the most esteemed firms in the city, including Beck Group, Cooper Carry, Corgan, Dyer Brown & Associates, Gensler, HDR, Hendrick, HKS, Inc., HLGstudio, HOK, Houser Walker Architecture, IA Interior Architects, Moody Nolan, Page, Perkins&Will, Plexus, Smallwood, and TVS Architects. The inspiring workshop was hosted by Perkins&Will and made possible with the support of GROHE, Tecno, TimberTech, StruXure, Form Furniture, USG, Crossville Tile, and Nydree Flooring. https://lnkd.in/e6MkWJ_2

Kimball International prides itself on crafting sustainable products throughout their lifecycle. Designed to be 92% recyclable at the end of its usability, Picado by National is a great example. #KimballInternational #Sustainability #Sponsored https://lnkd.in/eWtZbiq5

Jack Freedman is an optimist. Hyperaware that the current climate makes it “increasingly easy to fall into a dystopic vision for the future,” the Los Angeles–based photographer and multidisciplinary designer thinks the biggest challenge facing future generations may be a loss of hope. “I think it’s important that a positive vision of the future be shared among the design community,” he says. Freedman’s innovative adaptive reuse projects, which often leverage older postindustrial sites “built to last far longer than most contemporary construction methods,” earned him two Architizer Vision Awards in 2023. Freedman received an MArch 2 from SCI-Arc in 2023, after earning a BS in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. He learned, while honing his body of work, to balance timelessness with timeliness. https://lnkd.in/eF3k5uCH

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Forest to Frame: Why Portland’s Airport is a New Milestone for Mass Timber Beneath the nine-acre prefab wood roof and dozens of skylights, the new PDX’s tree-lined terminal designed by ZGF Architects is a marvel of material sourcing and construction. Inspired by farm-to-table cuisine, ZGF and its consultant, Sustainable Northwest Wood, created a “forest to frame” approach. Wood was sourced from landowners and mills within a 300-mile radius of the airport, is either Forest Stewardship Council-certified or traceable to forests or landowners meeting equally forest-friendly practices. The team also prioritized sourcing wood from smaller mills, family forests, non-profits, and tribal nations. “To me it’s a beautiful love story, of what happens when people and the land come together,” Anne Niblett of the Coquille Indian Tribe, whose forest in southwestern Oregon provided wood for the roof’s glulam beams, said at the terminal’s opening dedication. This is not how the timber market normally works. When ZGF began the project, “You couldn’t answer how much wood came from, say, fire-resilience harvesting, or from small family-run forests doing good forestry,” recalls ZGF associate principal Jacob Dunn. Instead, “Forests get logged. The longs go into piles, go through a mill and they get turned into products. They’re not segregated by forest origin or landowner type. So there’s no way to say that this deck of wood came from this forest. It gets completely blended up." - Brian Libby https://lnkd.in/dC3taHvf