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New York City
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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.
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Viewpoints
The Architecture & Design Film Festival Enters a New Chapter
ADFF 2026 brings together stories of reuse, climate action, architectural history, politics, gender, and public life.
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Viewpoints
What to See and Do at Archtober 2026
A special newsstand activation from Data Vandals expands this year’s festival lineup, alongside recurring faves.
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Projects
Gourmega Reconfigures the Communal Table
Designed by Mariam Issoufou for Ghetto Gastro cofounder Jon Gray, the restaurant uses a modular system of tables and a café-tasting room model to reshape communal dining across day and night.
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Products
15 Booths We Loved at ICFF 2026
This year’s edition was filled with hand-crafted and digitally fabricated pieces made with bio-based and recycled materials. Check out METROPOLIS editors’ top picks here.
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Projects
A New York City Home Transforms into a Two-Part Sanctuary
With a light touch and a tight budget, Leong Leong drew from what was already there—materials, layout, and memory—to shape a quietly expressive residence.
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Profiles
What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About Cities
At WXY, a people-first approach is quietly reshaping how New York—and increasingly the country—thinks about public space, sustainability, and civic design.
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Viewpoints
MOS’s New Book On Public Space, Power, and Communication
Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith from MOS architects make the case for evidence-based city design—and reveal how public space is shaped by power, ownership, and use.
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Programs
Carnegie Changemakers Convene in NYC to Explore Sustainable Specification
The trip, hosted by Carnegie and METROPOLIS, gave A&D sustainability champions the opportunity to dive deep into the impacts of materials and products.
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Viewpoints
Synergy Powers the METROPOLIS Sustainability Lab + Conference
More than 300 attendees gathered at The New School in New York City to explore, connect, and chart the path forward for sustainable design.
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Viewpoints
Archtober and the AIA Center for Architects Invites You to Share Space
Archtober 2025: Sharing Spaces, The 15th edition brings together architects, artists, and the public for a month of events exploring how New Yorkers share and shape their city.
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Viewpoints
What ICFF Brand Directors are Most Excited About for 2025
Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat give METROPOLIS a preview of this year’s theme, floor plan, and sustainable design highlights.
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Viewpoints
Archtober Invites You to Trace the Future of Architecture
Archtober 2024: Tracing the Future, taking place October 1–30 in New York City, aims to create a roadmap for how our living spaces will evolve.
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Profiles
Meixi Xu Believes that Design Should Enhance One’s Quality of Life
The former School of Visual Arts interior design student pays attention to what a space may intuitively lack in community or belonging.
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Projects
Caples Jefferson Architects’ Louis Armstrong Museum Shines in Queens
The new 14,000-square-foot visitor center opened across the street from Louis and Lucille Armstrong's two-story house in Corona, Queens.
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Viewpoints
What Recreational Cannabis Means for Dispensary Design in New York
Following its legalization, the city faces an identity (and equity) crisis when it comes to cannabis retail.
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Projects
How This Church at Ground Zero Got Its Glow
DLR Group shares details of the exacting lighting design work behind the halo effect for Calatrava’s Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
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Projects
One Willoughby Square is a Welcome Relief to the Brooklyn Skyline
Designed by FXCollaborative, One Willoughby Square is a half-brick skyscraper with the highest LEED Interior rating in the United States.
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Profiles
Soft-Firm Empowers Communities by Reframing Social Paradigms
Talitha Liu and Lexi Tsien of New York City–based Soft-Firm bring their sociocultural awareness to design projects in Brooklyn and beyond.
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Projects
Charles Gaines Defies the Static Nature of Public Monuments
The Los Angeles–based artist has collaborated with TOLO Architecture to build Moving Chains, a 110-foot-long kinetic sculpture on New York’s Governors Island.