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Inside the Fight to Save Two Saarinen Churches in Columbus, Indiana
The small city has a wealth of modernist architecture, but preserving it isn’t always straightforward, the contrasting fates of two churches by Eero and Eliel Saarinen show why.
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Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building
In her new book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, the architecture writer and broadcaster takes readers on a tour of the city’s most exciting apartment buildings and complexes.
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How a Health Care Clinic Applied Trauma Informed Design to Serve the LGBTQIA+ Community
With space for public programs as well as a sense of privacy and security Perkins&Will’s Family Tree Clinic answers the question, “What does healing look like to you?”
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Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly
This primer is a handy guide to toolkits, manuals, certifications, and indexes that can help you design with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind.
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How a Long-dead Russian Artist Is Influencing Cultural Preservation Efforts in Ukraine
Nicholas Roerich was a renowned painter, architect…
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Designer and TV Personality Amy Devers Brings Clever to the SURROUND Podcast Network
Take a behind-the-scenes look at how design shapes…
Profiles
Who Was Pritzker Prize-winning Architect B.V. Doshi?
On January 24, celebrated Indian architect and 201…
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Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
A newly resurfaced archive at the Illinois Institu…
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A Floating Learning Center Is Inspired by a Salmon’s Eye
The structure, anchored in a Norwegian Fjord, was …
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Building Pittsburgh’s Med-tech Future on an Industrial Past
Designed by ZGF Architects around a century-old Fo…
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Viewpoints
Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building
In her new book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, the architecture writer and broadcaster takes readers on a tour of the city’s most exciting apartment buildings and complexes.
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How a Long-dead Russian Artist Is Influencing Cultural Preservation Efforts in Ukraine
Nicholas Roerich was a renowned painter, architect, and writer whose namesake pact called on countries to protect works of art and sites of cultural heritage during wartime.
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A Floating Learning Center Is Inspired by a Salmon’s Eye
The structure, anchored in a Norwegian Fjord, was designed by Kvorning Design to have as little environmental footprint as…
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This Food Rescue Nonprofit’s HQ Offers Beauty During a Crisis
City Harvest’s Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights themes of reuse, reclamation, and…
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This Berlin Office Was Germany’s Most Sustainable Building in 2022
Combining a hybrid timber-and-concrete construction system with a carbon-capturing facade and biophilic atrium, EDGE Suedkreuz sets a new standard for green…
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How Architects can Design for Systems Change
The November/December issue of Metropolis looks at the architects and designers challenging the notion of a barrier between “natural” and “built”…
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Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
A newly resurfaced archive at the Illinois Institute of Technology reveals an artist always in motion.
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These 3 Artists Find Inspiration in the Built Environment
Working with cut paper, organic cotton, and oil on canvas, these visual artists reinvent the architectural world as they see it.
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Liv-Connected’s Design-forward Units Are Helping Redefine Modular Housing
Born out of a mission to provide comfortable shelter to disaster victims, the brand is now targeting the “missing middle” of American housing.
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How Ghana’s Radical Experiment in Health Care Is Taking Shape
Adjaye Associates is designing 101 new district hospitals in Ghana, reimagining the healing power of design along the way.
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This Berlin Office Was Germany’s Most Sustainable Building in 2022
Combining a hybrid timber-and-concrete construction system with a carbon-capturing facade and biophilic atrium, EDGE Suedkreuz sets a new standard for green architecture.
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Are Residential Conversions the Future for Underused Office Towers?
As downtown workplaces struggle to compete with remote work, real estate developers across the country are converting office towers to residential ones.
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Architect Michael Hsu Fashions a Flexible Office out of an Austin Church
Product design consultancy argodesign sets up shop in a three-level workspace with a versatile layout and biophilic accents to boot.
