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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
How a Hybrid Building Helped an Historic Manhattan Congregation Remain in Place
On Billionaire’s Row, FX Collaborative designed a new home for Calvary Baptist Church combined with an office tower.
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Projects
The Brumadinho Memorial Is an Exercise in Memory and Materiality
Designed by Gustavo Penna Arquitetos Associados, the memorial was built to honor the 272 victims of the collapse of Brazil’s Mina Córrego do Feijão tailings dam.
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Projects
ZHA Channels Ancient Walls for Future Forms
In Xi’an, the firm sets a luminous stadium against the city’s deep architectural memory, transforming football into a new civic ritual.
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Viewpoints
Michael Green Helped Launch the Mass Timber Revolution
In the latest episode of Deep Green, METROPOLIS sits down with the Planet Positive Visionary Award winner to discuss the roots of mass timber.
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Projects
At Houston Zoo, Lake Flato Makes a Case for Architecture as Habitat
Designed as the latest piece of a decade-long masterplan, the new café uses mass timber, rainwater collection, bird-safe glazing, and passive strategies to align the zoo’s conservation mission.
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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 jungle.
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Profiles
Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston
The cultural building and community center reinterprets Islamic design philosophy through geometry, climate-responsive design, and generous civic spaces.
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Projects
Art Stages Built Into A Hillside & An Old School
PS21 and The Campus Upstate are reimagining cultural infrastructure from within.
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Projects
Inside MAD’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
The long-awaited project highlights uncomfortable truths about Los Angeles’s cultural sector and civic health.
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Projects
Studio Hu Breathes New Life into a 700-Year-Old Chinese Village
Supported by the Vipshop Charity Foundation, Langtou Village Inn is a rural revitalization project that hopes to bring sustainable, circular tourism to the long-neglected community.
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Projects
Atelier Xi Embraces the Void for Great Public Architecture
Inspired by Guizhou’s caves and mountains, the AYDC Public Art Center harnesses travertine, steel, light, and reflection to create a constellation of cultural pavilions.
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Profiles
In Mexico, This Architect Designs for Those Who Stay
Fernanda Canales represents a new generation of Mexican women architects.
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Projects
Oxbow Architecture Creates a Permanent Structure for Powwows on the Plains
Rooted in Indigenous knowledge, the timber arbour provides a gathering place for the Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation.
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Profiles
For Omar Gandhi, the Practice Is the Project
The Canadian architect treats happiness as a serious design objective—and has built a practice across three cities to chase it.
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Projects
A New Winery Houses Centuries-Old Tradition
Located in a UNESCO-listed Portuguese wine region, Quinta de Adorigo winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo strikes a delicate balance between landscape and hospitality.
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Projects
A Civic Canopy in Rural France
In La Bouëxière, a small town in Brittany, Onze04 uses a soaring tensile canopy and climate-responsive design to transform a sports complex into a new community hub.
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Viewpoints
Rediscovering the Joy of Materials
METROPOLIS’s April/May/June 2026 Issue explores how thoughtful choices can transform projects, strengthen communities, and inspire better design.
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Products
9 Neuro-Inclusive Lighting Solutions for Sensory-Sensitive Design
These products can serve as the building blocks for lighting schemes that are friendly to all neuro types, everywhere from the home to the workplace.
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Projects
Safdie Architects Expands the Crystal Bridges Museum Into a Cultural Village
The 114,000-square-foot addition to the Bentonville, Arkansas, institution deepens its connection to nature, community, and wellness.