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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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Where Housing Meets Humanity
Three innovative housing projects that focus on care, community, and climate, redefining public housing with dignity.
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Programs
Emerging Architects Gather for Arch30 Minneapolis
METROPOLIS’s Arch30 held an event in September 2025 in Minneapolis celebrating the city’s rising young architects.
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Viewpoints
Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water
Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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Asif Khan’s Architecture as Art Practice
The London-based architect believes that architectural expression has the power to transform cultural perspectives.
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The Project That Remade Atlanta Is Still a Work in Progress
Atlanta's Beltline becomes a transformative force—but as debates over transit and displacement grow, its future remains uncertain.
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How Can We Design Buildings to Heal, Not Harm?
Jason McLennan—regenerative design pioneer and chief sustainability officer at Perkins&Will—on creating buildings that restore, replenish, and revive the natural world.
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Profiles
How Barbara Buser Sparked a Reuse Revolution
After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim building components, the Swiss architect is changing the rules of construction in Basel.
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3 Sustainability News Updates for Q1 2025
Local laws, easy-to-access tools, and global initiatives keep the momentum on green building going.
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How Upstream Calculated the Carbon Footprint of Portland’s New Mass Timber Terminal
ZGF's Portland Airport expansion partnered with the University of Washington's Applied Research Consortium to pioneer a groundbreaking carbon calculator tool.
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Forest to Frame: Why Portland’s Airport is a New Milestone for Mass Timber
Beneath a nine-acre prefab wood roof and dozens of skylights, PDX’s tree-lined terminal designed by ZGF Architects is a marvel of material sourcing and construction.
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Ukraine’s Rebuilding Plans Include 3D-Printed Schools
To speed the recovery of buildings lost to the war, the Ukranian government is getting humanitarian aid in the form of new construction technology.
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5 Buildings that Pushed Sustainable Design Forward in 2022
These schools and office buildings raised the bar for low-carbon design, employing strategies such as mass-timber construction, passive ventilation, and onsite renewable energy generation.
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Viewpoints
Paved With Good Intentions: We Still Can’t Kick the Car Habit
Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.
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Speed and Sustainability: The Luisenblock Shows What’s Possible with Mass Timber and Prefabrication
The new office building for the German Parliament was erected in mere months using a building system based on prefabricated wooden units.
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In Three Buildings Around the World, Old Methods Find New Purpose
In France, Sweden, and China, architects are drawing on old techniques like biomaterials and natural airflow to build the next generation of sustainable buildings.
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Viewpoints
The 2021 Building Boom That No One Talked About
Despite continued uncertainty, U.S. construction is spiking at an almost unprecedented rate. Critic Ian Volner examines why we need to pay closer attention.
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Frederick Fisher and Partners’ Municipal Building is a Green Systems Champion
Santa Monica City Hall East features state-of-the-art green building systems behind its straight-laced facade.
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In France, A Hempcrete Sports Center Demonstrates the Material’s Promise
Designed by local firm Lemoal Lemoal, the relatively modest center is the first public building in France made of this sustainable material.
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Six Architecture Projects that Raised the Bar on Sustainability in 2021
Featured in Metropolis throughout the year, these projects represent our industry’s best efforts at tackling climate change.