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Make an Impact When you Take Design Outside!
Join Avi Rajagopal, editor in chief, for the unveiling of The Outdoor Amenities Resource, a guide that compiles all existing resources to help the industry aim for sustainability, wellness, and equity in outdoor spaces.
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Projects
Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Gets a 21st-Century Conservatory
Designed by KPMB, The Leaf in Assiniboine Park provides a sustainable, warm refuge for both people and plants, even during Manitoba's subzero winters.
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Tom Lee Park Mixes It Up in Memphis
Located on the Mississippi River waterfront, the park is part of a plan to help different classes, communities, and histories commingle.
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Profiles
Future Green Puts Plants at the Heart of Its Practice
The Brooklyn-based landscape architecture and design-build studio blends fabrication and urban placemaking to reframe public space.
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The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab Helps Communities Plan for Resilience
Six landscape architects at North Carolina State are creating nature-based interventions that help vulnerable communities recover from flooding and storm damage.
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Sasaki Turns a Disused Rail Yard Into Lovely Bonnet Springs Park
In Lakeland, Florida, Sasaki transforms a heavily polluted train depot into an elegant yet hardworking green space.
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The Rebirth of Houston’s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park
The newly opened Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie is the first phase in the revitalization of the drought-stricken 1,500-acrepark, the largest urban green space in Texas.
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3 Projects Transform Urban Life for the Better
The winners of Metropolis’s 2022 Planet Positive Awards in the mixed use and landscape categories combine private amenities and public benefits.
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Profiles
Meet the Urban Planners Reshaping Resilience in Mexico
ORU’s resilient urbanism transforms chain-link and concrete blocks into cultural infrastructure.
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Viewpoints
For These Gardeners, Planting Is a Powerful Political Act
Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, celebrates radical gardeners of all stripes.
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Viewpoints
Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation
Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.
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Grand Junction Is the Rust Belt’s First Climate-Resilient Park
In Westfield, Indiana, a consortium of architects, landscape architects, and designers join together to transform a creek from a flood risk into a community jewel.
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Profiles
Wittman Estes Creates Places where Architecture and Landscape Intertwine
The Seattle-based firm’s nature-based approach is rooted in a belief that the best designs give more to their surroundings more than they take.
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Programs
Viola Gardens on Designing Gardens as Places for Living
Part of the Leading Edge series, the founder of Viola Gardens shares how she uses an approach called permaculture to influence how people and their gardens grow together.
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Viewpoints
A Recent Book Surveys WOHA’s Commitment to Sustainability
Written by architectural photographer, Patrick Bingham-Hall, WOHA: New Forms of Sustainable Architecture examines eleven energy-efficient projects.
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Viewpoints
How Architects Can Design for Systems Change
The November/December issue of Metropolis looks at the architects and designers challenging the notion of a barrier between "natural" and "built" environments.
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Viewpoints
Can Architects Build without Killing Birds?
Despite laws to reduce bird-window strikes, building-related practices continue to decimate songbirds. Can that trend be reversed?
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Projects
Tunnel Tops Park Heals San Francisco’s Presidio
Covering over Doyle Drive, a major traffic arterial, the new park connects the open space of the Presidio to the San Francisco Bay.
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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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“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.