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Commonplace Is Making the Case for High-Design Prefab
In Vancouver, McKinley Studios is testing a modular construction system that cuts building time from months to weeks without sacrificing architectural ambition.
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3 AI Architecture Tools Rethinking Workflows
From consolidating AI models to rethinking BIM and automating drawing-to-model conversion, tools like xFigura, Motif, and QikBIM target different points in architecture’s increasingly fragmented digital workflow. The g
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What Do Architects Need to Know About Data Centers?
With AI reshaping the scale, technology, and energy demands of data centers, Neil Sheehan of Woolpert discusses what architects need to understand about the design of the infrastructure behind the cloud.
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A Whole-Systems Approach to Design for Autism
This new ASD Design Matrix can help designers apply new scientific insights while designing spaces that consider autistic people's experiences.
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Young Projects Designs for the Unknown
The Brooklyn studio experiments with materials, fabrication, and form to create architecture that puts discovery at the forefront.
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Yu Nong Khew Uses AI to Question Her Humanity
The Wesleyan University professor recently launched Studio Soft Hairy, a design practice that balances digital fabrication, craft, and microbiology.
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How Are Architects and Designers Navigating AI?
Leading practitioners discuss how AI is changing their practices—and evolving the future of the industry.
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MIT Future Fest Offered a Hopeful View of What’s Next
The inaugural five-day event organized by the MIT Museum brought together visionary leaders across design, technology, and art to address the world’s most pressing problems.
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Common Object Studio Is Humanizing Concrete
Designed in collaboration with concrete manufacturer Mangrove, the studio’s Un Nido seating collection uses a leading-edge, low-waste additive process.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Closing the Loop at Interface
Interface’s Jay Lanier and Mikhail Davis discuss the company’s journey and its ongoing efforts around circularity.