
The art of traditional 3D modelmaking by hand is giving way to an array of new digital technologies. Lisa Delgado takes a look at how they can be used to boost efficiency.

"At the beginning I was not quite sure where it was going to lead to," David Chipperfield says of his recently completed Neues Museum refurbishment in Berlin in this edition of The Leaf Review. The neo-classicism of Friedrich August Stüler's original building allowed Chipperfield to bring a universal humanity to a building that 20 years before at the fall of the Berlin Wall was still a bombed-out ruin.
As new creative horizons open up in the midst of the global slowdown, young practices are coming to the fore. We talk to ten practices that are going to make waves in 2010.
The best design of the 21st century is both green and smart. As new systems enable architects and lighting designers to do unprecedented things with light, the challenge is to not make lighting flashier but to make it smarter. Bill Millard examines projects, including the acclaimed New York Times Building, that blur the border between the artistic and the functional.