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Building New York’s First Passive House Community
The Catskill Project is a 90-acre community of carbon neutral homes designed with residents’ health and wellbeing in mind.
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Programs
3 Projects Strengthening Communities Through Design
From affordable housing to civic spaces and schools, these 2025 Planet Positive Awards winners demonstrate how design can foster connection, expand access, and improve quality of life.
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Products
Discover the Winners of the METROPOLISLikes 2026 Awards
This year’s product releases at NeoCon and Design Days signal a transformation in interior design.
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Projects
A New Housing Model for the Missing Middle
In Madison, Wisconsin, 301 Vanilla rethinks middle-income housing through prefabrication, low-carbon construction, and an architecture that prioritizes character over convention.
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Projects
On Maui, an Off-Grid House Is Tuned to Culture and Climate
Kupono Hale combines passive design, solar power, and local, upcycled materials in a new vision of Hawai‘i Contemporary.
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Products
11 Products That Shape Space Through Texture
Wool, velvet, bouclé, chenille—this spring’s textile launches blend soft touch with stimulating visuals to create memorable, tactile interiors.
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Viewpoints
The Productive Tension of Prefabrication
Casa Guadalupe by HANGHAR pairs the logic of industrial building with a softer domestic language, revealing how prefab architecture, and design practices, can negotiate both rigor and warmth.
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Projects
A New York City Home Transforms into a Two-Part Sanctuary
With a light touch and a tight budget, Leong Leong drew from what was already there—materials, layout, and memory—to shape a quietly expressive residence.
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Profiles
Architecture by, for, and with America’s First Communities
Indigenous architects have methods and perspectives that could shape the future of the built environment.
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Products
10 Kitchen and Bath Collections Embracing Color
From richly glazed hardware to expressive surfaces, these richly-hued designs signal a shift beyond the all-white aesthetic.
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Viewpoints
Altadena’s Rebuild Begins with Listening
Led by SoCal NOMA, the Altadena Rebuild Coalition is guiding fire-impacted residents through recovery by prioritizing empathy, coordination, and community.
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Projects
Denmark’s Tallest Timber Tower Tests Circular Construction at Scale
In Aarhus, the 20-story TRÆ development by Lendager pairs a mass-timber structure with a broad palette of reclaimed materials to test a pragmatic model for low-carbon high-rise construction.
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Projects
In Vancouver, The Butterfly Redefines High-Rise Living
Revery’s sculptural 57-story tower merges luxury housing, public programs, and heritage preservation while prioritizing daylight, fresh air, and social connection.
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Projects
A Muskoka Cottage Is Optimized for Off-Grid Living
On a remote peninsula in Ontario, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design offers up a solar-powered sanctuary.
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Viewpoints
How Robotic Homebuilding Is Accelerating the Pacific Palisades Rebuild
Cosmic Buildings combines AI, on-site automation, and stick-built framing to speed recovery after California’s devastating fires.
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Profiles
Tuckey Design Studio Is Rooted in Reuse
Throughout design and construction, the London-based studio takes a circular, materially sensitive approach to both adaptive reuse and new builds.
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Projects
Natural Habitat: Brooklyn’s New Mass Timber Community
The repetition of deceptively simple window bays on a Greenwich Village building conceals deep attention to innovation, craft, and context.
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Viewpoints
Water, Wellness, and the World We Build
Kohler’s chief sustainable living officer explains how to harness water conservation to create meaningful change.
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Products
Discover the Best Products and Materials of 2025
METROPOLIS rounds up some of the most innovative products and materials that shaped design this year, highlighting breakthroughs in sustainability, circularity, and performance.
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Projects
Julia West House Offers Permanent Supportive Housing to Portland’s Elderly
The 12-story tower designed by Holst Architecture is also the state’s tallest mass timber building.