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David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House Is a Monument to Soft Power

The architect’s latest construction in Abu Dhabi is billed as a monument to tolerance and humanity, but a dubious human rights record hangs over the development.
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How Singapore’s Design Freedom Grew from Strict Regulation

The island nation’s remarkable architectural narrative is getting the global regard it deserves.
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Digital Art Gallery SINGULART Makes Art Accessible for All

From Our Partner: With the goals of enabling art lovers to curate their lives while also empowering the artists, SINGULART, brings transparency to the art market.
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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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Michael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect

Michael Maltzan’s gradual renovation of a Los Angeles art museum points the way to cultural architecture that engages with its context rather than focusing on flash.
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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.
Viewpoints

Morris Adjmi on Brian Eno’s Discreet Music

The architect and principal of Morris Adjmi Architects tells Metropolis about a piece of music that has inspired him since 1975.
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The Richard Gilder Center Opens at the American Museum of Natural History

Designed by Studio Gang, the museum’s newest wing aims to awe visitors by mimicking natural wonders, but its geomorphic design falls flat.
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Louise Braverman Engages Communities through Design

For the Leading Edge series, architect Louise Braverman seeks to create beauty that makes a difference in people’s lives by striking the perfect balance of visionary and pragmatic.
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An Arts Complex in Melbourne Pushes against the Tide of Gentrification

Local firm Fieldwork converted a disused technical school into the Collingwood Yards development with an eye toward placemaking, accessibility, and social sustainability.
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Kyle May Breaks Away from Convention

Part of the Leading Edge series, Kyle May, Architect’s desire to rethink norms drives the practice, whether it’s through provocative building strategies or innovative material use.
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Mario Cucinella’s Etruscan Art Museum Dives through the Layers of History

The Foundation Luigi Rovati Museum in Milan showcases art and artifacts in a setting inspired by quarries and ancient Etruscan tombs.
Profiles

YunIn Jeung Fuses Formal Expression and Social Purpose

A member of the 2023 Metropolis Future100, Jeung draws on his multicultural upbringing to tell a story through architecture.
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HKS Elevates Design through Bespoke Research

Part of the Leading Edge series, HKS supports its clients in looking beyond benchmarks to create breakthrough solutions through a collaborative, investigative approach.
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Morris Adjmi Architects on Creating Meaningful Environments

Part of the Leading Edge series, multidisciplinary firm MA | Morris Adjmi Architects delivers designs that are simultaneously iconic, contextual, and community-oriented.
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A New Exhibition Explores Gaetano Pesce’s Drawing Practice

Titled Unframed, the display of drawings from the last four decades illustrates the radical designer’s jubilant thinking on paper, with works mostly taped onto the gallery walls.
Profiles

Yasmeen Lari: Starchitect Turned Climate Activist

Pakistan's first woman architect turned away from glass, steel, and concrete to launch a low-carbon, self-build movement for climate refugees and the landless.
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In Hollywood, a New Home for a Legacy Nonprofit Organization

ODAA transformed an industrial shell into a multipurpose headquarters for the Assistance League of Los Angeles as the nonprofit organization enters its second century of community service.
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INFORM Studio Brings a Net-Zero Energy Visitor Center to Providence

The Roger Williams Park Gateway Center transforms a formerly vacant site into an inclusive public space and entrance to Rhode Island's 500-acre Roger Williams Park.
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TVS Builds Convention Centers to Foster Human Connection

Part of the Leading Edge series, Robert Svedberg, principal of TVS, describes how his firm expanded the Javits Center, repositioning the iconic building for the 21st century.