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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Creates a New Urban Shortcut in Oslo
A pedestrian passageway through Via, a block-sized development in the Norwegian capital, creates new connections to the city.
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Building atop a 14,000-Foot-Tall Mountain
GWWO Architects recently completed a new visitor center for Pikes Peak, the highest point in the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
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A New Novel Captures the Precarious State of Cities
Set in a dystopic Toronto, The Marigold explores how the twin forces of climate collapse and rapacious investment capital have pushed urban areas to the breaking point.
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The Best Resources Linking Sustainability and Equity
This section of the Metropolis Design for Equity Primer offers resources to expand your green building practice to include social equity.
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Discover Crossville’s First Carbon Neutral Tiles
From Our Partner: Crossville unveils its first car…
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7 Sustainability Benefits of HempWool Insulation
Hempitecture raises the bar in building insulation…
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The School of Architecture Adapts to an Uncertain Future
After a messy divorce from the Frank Lloyd Wright …
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Creative Reuse Slashes an Office Interior’s Carbon Footprint
LMN Architects achieves a carbon-friendly office r…
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Michael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect
Michael Maltzan’s gradual renovation of a Los An…
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The School of Architecture Adapts to an Uncertain Future
After a messy divorce from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the unconventional architecture school relocated to Arcosanti. So far, it’s going well.
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Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation
Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.
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Building atop a 14,000-Foot-Tall Mountain
GWWO Architects recently completed a new visitor center for Pikes Peak, the highest point in the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky…
Projects
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Creates a New Urban Shortcut in Oslo
A pedestrian passageway through Via, a block-sized development in the Norwegian capital, creates new connections to the city….
Viewpoints
Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation
Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and…
Projects
Creative Reuse Slashes an Office Interior’s Carbon Footprint
LMN Architects achieves a carbon-friendly office renovation for a real estate client by striking a careful balance of reused and responsibly sourced…
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Four Architecture Students Respond to the Housing Crisis
With modular, quick-to assemble housing designs attuned to local needs and context, these members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 show advanced methodologies and humanitarianism go hand in hand.
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Four Students Posit a Link between Architecture and Biodiversity
Members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 explore ways architecture can support plant and animal habitats across typologies, from housing to research stations.
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Nicolas Burbano Diaz Uses Design to Build Community
A member of the 2023 Metropolis Future100, this interior design student at Toronto Metropolitan University focuses on housing and hospitality, with the hope of making a difference.
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In Colombia, a Highway Operations Center That Does So Much More
Along a rural stretch of Colombia’s national highway system, architect Giancarlo Mazzanti designed a community center that’s integrated into an infrastructure hub.
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Architects Design 10 Birdhouses to Support a Texas Park
Global design leaders produced high concept birdhouses to support Brackenridge Park, an important avian habitat in San Antonio, Texas.
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Studio Gang Reimagines the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
A dramatic renovation resolves the arts institution’s disjointed layout and missed connections to the city of Little Rock.
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A Contemporary Dovecote Adorns This Architect’s Home
In Sonoma, California, Neal J.Z. Schwartz added a home for birds to his own, creating a modern riff on an old-school building type.
