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Cultural
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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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Art Stages Built Into A Hillside & An Old School
PS21 and The Campus Upstate are reimagining cultural infrastructure from within.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Perkins&Will Rebuilds the West Coast’s First Camp for the Blind
A destructive wildfire became a catalyst for reimagining the treasured retreat for generations to come.
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In North Carolina, an Iconic Park Completes a Community
In North Carolina's fast-growing Research Triangle, Machado Silvetti and OJB transform seven acres into a civic landscape that doubles as public infrastructure, cultural hub, and long-awaited town center.
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Projects
In Missoula, a Museum Grows from Timber and Memory
Designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the National Museum of Forest Service History’s new hub transforms donated materials and expressive timber forms into a learning environment.
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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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Profiles
Materia Latina / Latin Matter
Between the US and Latin America, Balsa Crosetto Piazzi, Studio Cadena, and Estudio ALA practice architecture through a contextual and collective approach to materiality.
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Field Operations’ Design for Arts Landing Brings Promise to Pittsburgh
In partnership with nonprofit Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the new public space and park transforms an underutilized area into an arts destination.
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Viewpoints
Antoni Gaudí, On the Spectrum
World Heritage Site, Casa Batlló, is “committed to autism.” Can other cultural institutions learn from this ground-breaking neurodiversity initiative?