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Technology
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Viewpoints
11 Tools Transforming Sustainable Design
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights technologies, systems, and approaches helping teams streamline their work and tackle complexity.
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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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Profiles
Liam Young Is World-Building With Spatial Design
As the climate crisis shifts from a technological problem to a crisis of imagination, the architect and film director calls on designers to construct new planetary narratives.
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4 Signals of a Systems Shift in Nature-Based Design
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights new research nudging climate action toward coordinated strategies linking materials, ecosystems, data, and policy.
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Four New Roadblocks on the Path to Sustainable Buildings
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 warns of four systemic and infrastructural limits to a more sustainable built environment.
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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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Viewpoints
Closing the Loop at Interface
Interface’s Jay Lanier and Mikhail Davis discuss the company’s journey and its ongoing efforts around circularity.
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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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Inside Autodesk’s Sustainability Vision—and Actions
Joe Speicher, Autodesk’s chief sustainability officer, discusses how integrating AI and cloud tools can make sustainable design measurable and achievable across the built environment.
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Products
Tracing Mass Timber’s Full Life Cycle
Corgan introduces its mass timber carbon calculator, which measures the embodied emissions of biogenic carbon.
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Viewpoints
How Acoustic Design Is Evolving for the Modern Workplace
Experts from the A&D industry came together to discuss challenges and share opportunities in partnership with METROWALL.
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Viewpoints
Making the Case for Slate
CUPACLAD’s Drew Ford shares how this ancient material, paired with modern engineering, meets today’s sustainability and performance standards.
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Products
How to Embrace AI in Your Workflow
From automation to analysis, these 6 AI tools can collaborate with architects, designers, and manufacturers.
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Viewpoints
How a Fresh Materials Mindset Can Transform Your Projects
METROPOLIS’s Products 2025 issue explores inspired material alternatives that prevent harm, do good, and expand what’s possible in design.
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Products
4 Metals Transforming Building Aesthetics
Metals that are expanding design & performance with less carbon, better energy efficiency, and bold designs.
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Products
How Kaiterra’s Sensedge Go Is Shaping the Future of Healthy Buildings
This new generation of data-driven monitors delivers effortless installation, adaptive AI, and insightful sustainability parameters—all in one wireless device.
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Projects
Under a Steel Canopy, NVIDIA Unveils a New Kind of Tech Campus
Designed by Gensler, the bold triangular campus uses geometry and light to support innovation at scale.
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Products
Lighter, Smarter, Stronger Metals
From carbon-cutting aluminum to ultralight metal foams, emerging innovations are unlocking metals’ potential for high performance design.
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Products
3 European Brands Redefining Waste Materials Reuse
FRONT Materials, a:gain, and Aectual are all transforming waste—from coffee cups to demolition debris—into beautiful, usable building materials.
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Products
5 Solutions for Smarter Building
Explore products that improve durability, energy efficiency, and design for today’s architecture projects.