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Infrastructure
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In Germany, a Cradle-to-Cradle Firehouse Proves the Power of Mass Timber
Wulf Architekten designed the timber and concrete components of the Straubenhardt firehouse to be disassembled and reuse.
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Viewpoints
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s Spatializing Justice Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium
In their latest book, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman propose a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
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How Midsize Cities Are Driving America’s Urban Transformation
Explore how American cities with populations under 1 million are reimagining themselves with bold projects and policies, and driving urban transformation and innovation.
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Viewpoints
Surveying 100 Years of the Regional Plan Association
An exhibition takes a clear-eyed look at the Regional Plan Association's achievements and shortcomings, always with a focus on the future.
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These D.C. Art Installations Point to More Than High Water Marks
Depicting a 500-year flood line nine feet in the air, the latest sculpture educates on rising waters in one of the area’s lowest lying spots.
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The Rec Center Reimagined: How Cities are Designing for Wellness
Fitness centers in Baltimore, Maryland, and El Paso, Texas, show that cities can offer high-level recreational services at a low cost, improving the well-being of all.
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“We Need to Integrate Everything”: Arturo Vittori’s Warka Village Nears Completion In Cameroon
The community of low-impact homes and water-harvesting towers, built and occupied by a pygmy rainforest community known as Bibambi II, could become a model for sustainable development.
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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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Profiles
Gregor Sailer’s Photographs Explore Architecture’s Political, Military, and Economic Implications
In a new show at Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, the Austrian artist continues his investigation of architecture where few civilians tread.
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Profiles
Ton Venhoeven Believes Architecture Must Support Non-Human Life
The Dutch architect and former national infrastructure advisor, aims to raise quality of life by taking nature-inclusive design to the next level.
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Projects
Miami Beach gets 36 Colorful New Lifeguard Towers
Designed by local architect William Lane, the flamboyant new structures are inspired by the resort town's Art Deco and MiMo heritage.
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Viewpoints
SCHOOLED: What is Infrastructure?
In the wake of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the term keeps expanding to describe an evolving network of systems everyone needs.
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The L.A. River Gets A Geometric New Pedestrian Crossing
The Taylor Yard Bikeway/Pedestrian Bridge, designed by SPF:architects gives cyclists and walkers a new route between Elysian Valley and Cypress Park.
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Profiles
Bridging the Divide Between the Possible and the Impossible
Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.'s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and myriad lessons.
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Viewpoints
Following Years of Revitalization, Detroit Still Has a Long Way to Go
Metropolis brought together local policy makers, designers, developers, and activists to discuss the city's uncertain present and contested future.
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Profiles
A New Orleans Planner Builds Community as an Anti-Highway Activist
A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But Amy Stelly is standing her ground.
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Viewpoints
Exploring the Sculptural in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Photographs
In a new retrospective, the German husband and wife duo’s images continue to ask questions about beauty, function, and form.
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Viewpoints
The Bronx Was Built by Transit
Building the Bronx, an exhibition by the New York Transit Museum shows how horsecars, subways, and a monorail helped create the borough we know today.
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Viewpoints
Sameep Padora Untangles Mumbai’s Building Codes to Make Architecture Legible
Beginning with an urgent question about public health, an exhibition about Mumbai explores architecture, people, and the state of housing.
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Projects
Speirs Major Brings an Illuminated Forest to a Biomass Power Plant
Clad in a thicket of tree trunks, the BIO4 facility is a symbol of Copenhagen's renewable energy revolution.