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How Can Designers Listen to Water?
Funded by architectural nonprofit re:arc institute, Latin and Central American practices are designing with water to create urban spaces for planetary well-being.
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Snøhetta’s ‘La Nube’ Museum Leverages Equity and Accessibility
The playful El Paso Children’s Museum welcomes learners of all ages and abilities with bilingual signage and inclusive thinking.
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Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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METROPOLIS’s Ultimate Winter Reading List
Whether you’re interested in the future of sustainable interiors or the history of architectural modernism, here are 2024’s top design titles, curated by METROPOLIS editors.
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PORCH: An Invitation to Explore American Architecture at the Venice Biennale
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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How TAKK Is Rethinking the Template for Architecture
For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño of Barcelona-based studio TAKK, every commission is a chance to question the norm.
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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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How Construction Materials and Technologies Are Evolving
Follow METROPOLIS’s most compelling coverage of construction materials and technologies, from next-gen concrete to circular design.
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An Urban Island as Affordable Housing
LOHA Architects are expanding the definition for permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles
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Ifeoma Ebo Is on a Quest for Urban Healing
Through trauma-informed design processes, Ebo aims for community stewardship and empowerment.
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Monroe Street Abbey Is an Armature from the Past for the Future
Discover how Jones Studio transformed the ruins of a former Baptist church in Phoenix into a community-centered garden and event venue.
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Profiles
Breland–Harper Mines the Past to Design a Better Future
In less than a decade, Ireland-Harper, the Los Angeles–based studio has completed over 100 adaptive reuse projects.
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A New Film Calls Designers to Mimic Nature
Biocentrics, a new documentary by directors Ataliba Benaim and Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo, challenges designers to go back to the basic innovations of the natural world.
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Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?
With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city.
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32 Adaptive Reuse Projects for a Better Future
Through decades of coverage, METROPOLIS rounds up the best adaptive reuse stories and projects from around the globe.
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Farshid Moussavi’s Open-ended Architecture Comes to the U.S.
The London-based architect keeps both her design process and her built projects fluid and ever-changing. The Ismaili Center in Houston will be her first project in the United States.
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This New Cultural District is Creating Community on Detroit’s East Side
Little Village, a hub of parks, art galleries, cultural spaces, artist studios, restaurants, and more, is expanding the city’s revitalization beyond downtown.
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An Architecture Office of the Future
Studio RAP in Rotterdam is a combination of a design studio and robotic factory.
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We Design Beirut Sheds Light on Lebanon’s Ever-resourceful Creative Community
The inaugural citywide festival incorporated exhibitions that addressed the relevancy of craft and the importance of sustainable design.
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The Denver Art Museum Explores Nature’s Eternal Sway over Architecture and Design
Biophilia: Nature Reimagined brings together 70 works that explore the relationship between nature and creativity.