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Technology
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Profiles
HOOBA Design Group Crafts with Materials and Light
Windows, openings, tiling, and tectonics are forms of expression for this Tehran-based firm.
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Programs
The Hidden Cost of Design Workflows
As architecture and design firms pursue ambitious sustainability goals, Bitreel is showing how reducing workflow waste can be as important as reducing material waste.
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Products
4 Architectural Facades Reimagining Contemporary Cladding
Contemporary facades and architectural surfaces are now infrastructure—highly performative, technically ambitious, and also increasingly complex to build.
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Projects
In Rural Alabama, a ‘Connected Classroom’ Is a Portal to Possibility
Designed by architect Danish Kurani, the Connected Rural Classroom expands access to specialized instruction through architecture and 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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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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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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Viewpoints
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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Viewpoints
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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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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Viewpoints
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.