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Viewpoints
15 Must-Reads to Help You Prepare for 2022
With insightful analysis, critical perspectives, and in-depth reporting, Metropolis contributors give you the tools you need for the year ahead.
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Viewpoints
Bernard Judge, 1931-2021
Relatively unknown outside of Southern California, the architect championed—and created—radical, technologically-advanced residential concepts that were livable, affordable and sustainable.
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Products
Six Products with Nothing to Hide
Metropolis’s yearlong review of what designers should specify when transparency is a priority.
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Products
With 3D Digitization, Material Bank Aims to Provide Designers with Even Simpler Specification
A partnership between sampling platform Material Bank and Vizoo, a Munich, Germany–based leading digitization company, could be the beginning of the end of the material sample slush pile.
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Profiles
With the Net Zero Conference, Drew Shula Aims to Inspire Radical Transformation
The annual summit is an opportunity to share sustainability breakthroughs and thought leadership as the urgency of the climate crisis deepens.
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NOMA: What the Next 50 Years Looks Like
A new endowment, the end of tokenism, and licensure for as many BIPOC practitioners as possible are among the National Organization of Minority Architects leadership's long-term goals.
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Programs
NYCxDESIGN Announces a Slate of Activities and Activations for 2021
Virtual and self-guided events dominate the spring lineup, but the nonprofit hopes to begin carefully planned in person programming.
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Projects
Thomas Heatherwick Selected to Design Luxury High Line Condo
The new residential complex, to wrap up in 2020, will feature a bubbly facade of faceted bay windows.
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Projects
President Trump Slams New U.S. Embassy in Late-Night Tweet
The president, after cancelling an upcoming London visit, cast the blame on the cost of the new KieranTimberlake-designed embassy building.
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Projects
Amid California Blaze, the Getty Center Remains Unscathed
As fires rage across the Los Angeles area this week, museum officials confirm the Richard Meier–designed complex is unharmed.
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Programs
2018 AIA Gold Medal Goes to James Stewart Polshek
Polshek will receive the AIA Gold Medal 2018, while Minneapolis-based firm Snow Kreilich Architects received the AIA's Firm Award.
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Viewpoints
Publicity Stunt? “Working-Class Theme Park?” Questions Loom for the V&A’s Three-Story Robin Hood Gardens Fragment
The Victoria & Albert Museum is preserving a three-story chunk of the Peter and Allison Smithson–designed Robin Hood Gardens housing project.
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Projects
Sidewalk Labs Announces New Smart City District For Toronto
“Sidewalk Toronto” will aim to generate "sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity" to more than 800 acres of waterfront.
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Adjaye, Chipperfield, Heatherwick, Levete, and Renfro on the 21st Century Museum
A laundry list of the some of the world’s biggest architects gathered in London for Frieze’s Art + Architecture Conference to discuss trends in museum architecture.
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Projects
Berggruen Institute Reveals Additional Details of Herzog & de Meuron-Designed Campus, Awards $1 Million Philosophy Prize
Located on a Los Angeles hilltop, the Institute compound by Herzog & de Meuron will be an intellectual mecca aimed at addressing pressing global issues.
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Projects
Architect Neave Brown Wins RIBA Gold Medal
Brown is most renowned for his Alexandra Road housing project in London's Camden borough.
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Projects
BREAKING: Paris’s “Ugliest Skyscraper” to Receive a Makeover, Courtesy of New French Firm
Nouvelle AOM beat out Studio Gang for the job to revitalize the Tour Montparnasse, the city's much-reviled skyscraper.
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After Irma and Harvey, Architects Advocate Network Calls for Action
In the wake of two devastating hurricanes, the grassroots group is pushing for design and policy responses.
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Morphosis and Weiss/Manfredi Projects Open on NYC’s Cornell Tech Campus
The Thom Mayne–designed Bloomberg Center is primarily academic while the Weiss/Manfredi–designed "The Bridge" will host offices.
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AIA Urges Senate to Watch Its Language in New Energy Bill
Legislative advocates oppose the repeal of targets to reduce carbon emissions in federal buildings—and that’s not their only concern.