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How a Big Firm Drives Big Change
Gensler’s Design Resilience Leader and Director of Sustainability Katie Mesia discusses how the firm is scaling carbon neutrality, shifting culture, and aligning sustainability with business performance.
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How Robotic Homebuilding Is Accelerating the Pacific Palisades Rebuild
Cosmic Buildings combines AI, on-site automation, and stick-built framing to speed recovery after California’s devastating fires.
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Norway’s New Government Quarter Was Designed to Rebalance Power
Designed by Nordic Office of Architecture, the new campus in Oslo completes its first phase, 15 years after far-right bombing.
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Report: METROPOLIS Weighs in on Sustainable Design in the U.S.
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 captures the state of green building today and what comes next.
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How Robotic Homebuilding Is Accelerating the Pacific Palisades Rebuild
Cosmic Buildings combines AI, on-site automation, …
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Norway’s New Government Quarter Was Designed to Rebalance Power
Designed by Nordic Office of Architecture, the new…
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Can We Design Buildings That Give Back?
From low-hanging fruit to high-value visions, Livi…
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From Skyscrapers to Chairs: Rewriting SOM’s American Design Legacy
An exhibition by Rarify reframes SOM’s philosoph…
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Portland’s Carnegie Libraries Reopen as Community Anchors
LEVER’s transformations of the Albina and North …
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33 Articles That Show the Future Is Mass Timber
Mass timber has taken over the architecture industry over the past few years—and METROPOLIS has been paying attention.
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The Power of Biophilia: Designing Buildings That Heal People and the Planet
METROPOLIS’s Winter issue explores how biophilic design continues to advance human well-being while evolving into a regenerative framework for buildings, ecosystems, and the planet.
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A Historic California Schoolhouse Becomes a Home for Quantum Research
EYRC Architects restored Orange’s Mission Revival Killefer School, preserving its layered past while adapting the century-old landmark for Chapman…
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The Aranyani Pavilion Rethinks Architecture’s Role in Ecological Conservation
Built from Lantana camara, an invasive species found throughout India, the pavilion will be on view at Sunder Nursery in New Delhi from February 4-20,…
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Boss Design’s New Label Changes How Designers Specify
The Carbon Efficiency Label turns complex lifecycle data into a visual tool for informed…
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CannonDesign Revitalizes the Gregory Bateson Building
The renovation of a landmark project by Sim Van der Ryn shows what sustainable strategies have stood the test of time—and what ideas have fallen by the…
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Spanish Firm ERRE Is Quietly Transforming the City of Valencia
With recent commissions from Marriott and Andreu World, as well as a new arena designed with HOK, ERRE is at the forefront of the city’s development.
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Emergent Vernacular Architecture Studio Builds for Community Resilience
From Haiti to Lebanon, the London-based studio helps create public spaces for those that need it the most.
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For Studio Saar, Architecture is about Facilitation
For the India- and UK-based studio, regenerative development starts with community advocacy and stakeholder collaboration.
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CannonDesign Revitalizes the Gregory Bateson Building
The renovation of a landmark project by Sim Van der Ryn shows what sustainable strategies have stood the test of time—and what ideas have fallen by the wayside.
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Inox, Light, and Fight
At Laguna during Mexico City Art Week, fifteen architecture practices confront scarcity head-on, framing reduction, reuse, and resistance not as aesthetics, but as the operative conditions of contemporary practice.
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The Aranyani Pavilion Rethinks Architecture’s Role in Ecological Conservation
Built from Lantana camara, an invasive species found throughout India, the pavilion will be on view at Sunder Nursery in New Delhi from February 4-20, 2026.
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Natural Habitat: Brooklyn’s New Mass Timber Community
The repetition of deceptively simple window bays on a Greenwich Village building conceals deep attention to innovation, craft, and context.
