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Get Ready to Enter the 2025 Planet Positive Awards
Applying to the most comprehensive awards for sustainable and healthy design will be easier than ever! Here’s everything you need to know.
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Studio De Zwarte Hond Reimagines Dutch University with Circular Renovation
The Herta Mohr building showcases how resourceful reuse can transform a legacy structure into a sustainability paradigm.
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Presenting The 2025 METROPOLIS Future100
Here are the top 100 architecture and interior design students graduating in North America this year.
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7 Proposals for a Circular Built Environment
Discover the forward-thinking solutions developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, which invited sustainability advocates to reimagine how we design and construct.
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This Arkansas Institute Brings a Holistic Vision to Health-Care Design
Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, Heartland…
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Is Mass Timber the Future of America’s Skylines?
DLR Group’s Stephen Cavanaugh shares what 3 mill…
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The Shenzhen Energy Ring Sets a New Standard for Circular Infrastructure
The Perkins & Will–designed facility is a dynami…
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Ronald Rael’s Solution to the Housing Crisis? Muddy Robots
The Berkeley, California–based architect’s new…
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B Corp Brands Are Creating Design for a Fairer World
The third-party designation is transforming design…
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How Architecture Must Evolve to Embrace Timber-Based Design
Mass timber is poised to transform the built envir…
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Will the New Version of LEED Be Better?
The world’s most popular green building certification is getting ready for an update. Here’s what you need to know about it.
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The Politics of Adobe Architecture
Recent scholarship on earth architecture in America highlights larger issues concerning power, extraction, and Indigenous resistance to the settler state and capitalism.
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Studio De Zwarte Hond Reimagines Dutch University with Circular Renovation
The Herta Mohr building showcases how resourceful reuse can transform a legacy structure into a sustainability…
Products
4 Manufacturers Lead the Way in Sustainable Surfaces
3form, Corian, Cosentino, and Wilsonart offer some of the most transparent surfacing products on the…
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The Shenzhen Energy Ring Sets a New Standard for Circular Infrastructure
The Perkins & Will–designed facility is a dynamic case study in placemaking, ensuring waste management and energy-generation become a more visible part of…
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B Corp Brands Are Creating Design for a Fairer World
The third-party designation is transforming design by putting people on par with…
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Alberto Kritzler is at the Forefront of Regenerative Design in Mexico
The Harvard Loeb Fellow is rethinking water scarcity and abundance through his Reserva el Peñón project in in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
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Ken De Cooman Is a New Kind of Architect
BC Architects challenge conventional architecture practice by using local materials and a collaborative approach to reshape the industry.
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At the Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore Connects Place and Memory
The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place grant-making program is transforming communities through storytelling, conservation, and design.
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Meet the Designers Building With Earth
Three international architecture practices are responding to local climate conditions through rammed earth and compressed earth bricks
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Payette’s Ragon Building Redefines Biomedical Research Spaces
A collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital, the new institute advances vaccine development—including efforts toward an HIV cure.
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HDR Wraps Mayo Clinic Lab in a Dynamic Double-Layered Facade
The building’s striking exterior reduces solar gain, while its “risk-based” interior zoning ensures efficiency in research.
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David Kohn Designs a Whimsical Quad for New College Oxford
With distinctive undulating roofs, diamond-patterned stone facades, and a series of stone gargoyles, the addition brings a playful approach to the historic campus.
