Features

Down by the Riverside
The best way to understand how a body of water behaves may be to re-create it.
By Tom Vanderbilt

The Sharper Image
Razors have never been racier than Schick's new Quattro, the company's latest salvo in its bloody war with Gillette.
By Ernest Beck

Look Homeward, Adams
Space architect Constance Adams turns her sights to clean water for Earth.
By Jessie Scanlon

Time and Tide
Weather stations designed by Philippe Starck bring the outside to your bedside.
By Eve M. Kahn

The Unsettling Art of Building
a Snow House: Lessons from Lapland.
By Tom Vanderbilt

Who You Calling a Shrimp?
The mantis shrimp is a menace by design-and a model of engineered stability.
By Andrea Codrington

Ship to Shore
Moored on the Danube, a Russian barge leaves history in its wake.
By András Szántó

The Pool Gets Cooler
Speedlite swim goggles are peerless in cutting down drag.
By Bradford McKee

Hangouts & Hangups
A photography series about domestic life moves to the waterfront.
By David Sokol

Departments

/letters
The perils of design stardom. A misaimed hunting story. Unhealthy habits need no support.

/editor's note
Fawning over flora at Milan's Salone.
By Julie Lasky

/expo
Jet-powered, winged submersible. Pentagram on prime time. What pundits think of Hadid's Pritzker.

/q+a
Michael Arad reflects on his Ground Zero memorial.
By Christopher Hawthorne

/rant
Umbrellas are antisocial, clumsy, and perishable. And those are their good points.
By Jude Stewart

/eco
Chicago's Mobile City Farmstead breeds a new strain of sustainable design.
By Ned Cramer

/source
Inventables, a quarterly service, delivers materials and ideas to the door.
By David Sokol

/r+d
A homemade camera captures images with startling resolution.
By Tom Vanderbilt

/n+n
Nicholas Lovegrove's Fidobag. Dornbracht's programmable showerhead. Bentley's Continental GT.
By David Sokol

/scape
Chicago's Millennium Park
By Ruth Altchek

/crit
Jasper Morrison for Rowenta
Product review by Holly Finn

Athens Olympics 2004 Identity review by Deborah Sussman

Zembla
Magazine review by Steven Heller

Phaidon's Atlas of Architecture
Book review by William Morgan

/flashback
Industrial Design, June 1961
Written by Leslie D. Gottlieb
Updated by Steven Heller