Projects
UC San Diego Transforms a Facade into a Dynamic Display for Digital Art
With the help of Studio E Architects, The Mandeville Center for the Arts now showcases innovative art, inside and out.
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A Whole-Systems Approach to Design for Autism
This new ASD Design Matrix can help designers apply new scientific insights while designing spaces that consider autistic people’s experiences.
Profiles
Young Projects Designs for the Unknown
The Brooklyn studio experiments with materials, fabrication, and form to create architecture that puts discovery at the forefront.
Awards
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 METROPOLIS Planet Positive Awards
METROPOLIS’s Planet Positive Award winners represent excellence in sustainable, healthy, just design at every scale in the built environment.
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Yu Nong Khew Uses AI to Question Her Humanity
The Wesleyan University professor recently launche…
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How Are Architects and Designers Navigating AI?
Leading practitioners discuss how AI is changing t…
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MIT Future Fest Offered a Hopeful View of What’s Next
The inaugural five-day event organized by the MIT …
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Common Object Studio Is Humanizing Concrete
Designed in collaboration with concrete manufactur…
Products
How MillerKnoll is Powering the Future of Design
As AI and new ways of working reshape the workplac…
Products
Momentum Partners with Interact Center to Empower Artists with Disabilities
A collaboration with the Minnesota nonprofit bring…
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Viewpoints
We Need a New Approach to Designing for Autism
Architects and designers need to update their strategies for neuroinclusive design. Recent research points the way forward.
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Viewpoints
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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Projects
Inside PCA-STREAM’s Unconventional Concert Hall
At La Source Vive, a challenging oval geometry becomes the foundation for an intimate performance space where architecture and acoustics work in…
Projects
In India, Prestige University Offers Lessons in Climate Craft
The IGBC Platinum–rated education project is part of Sanjay Puri Architects’ quest for creative—and delightful—responses to a warming…
Projects
Student Housing That’s Resilient by Design
A bioclimatic university project in Dakar weathered ten years of change by staying flexible—and, in doing so, made a case for building African architecture…
Projects
In Tulum, V Taller Inverts the Symbolism of the Tower of Babel
Mexican architects V Taller reconcile housing for tourists and long-term residents with urban chaos at the edge of the rapidly developing Mayan…
Profiles
Profiles
Yu Nong Khew Uses AI to Question Her Humanity
The Wesleyan University professor recently launched Studio Soft Hairy, a design practice that balances digital fabrication, craft, and microbiology.
Profiles
Common Object Studio Is Humanizing Concrete
Designed in collaboration with concrete manufacturer Mangrove, the studio’s Un Nido seating collection uses a leading-edge, low-waste additive process.
Profiles
The Architect Designing Sacred Spaces for the Every Day
RIBA Gold Medal winner Níall McLaughlin strives to design not just buildings but the rituals that unfold within them.
Projects
Projects
In North Dakota, a Regenerative Presidential Library for Theodore Roosevelt
Inspired by Roosevelt’s legacy of conservation, Snøhetta crafts a living building for his Presidential Library.
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UC Berkeley’s Newest Building Is All About Human Interactions
The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway—home to the university’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society—gently reminds data scientists and AI researchers of what’s really important.
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ZD+A Brings a Modernist Mexico City House in Line with its Context
Architect Yuri Zagoin Alazraki reorganized the speculative house to respond to its site and create unique spaces for contemplation.
Projects
In India, Prestige University Offers Lessons in Climate Craft
The IGBC Platinum–rated education project is part of Sanjay Puri Architects’ quest for creative—and delightful—responses to a warming planet.
