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Fall 2024
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Viewpoints
Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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Products
Why Interface Wants to Phase Out Carbon Offsets
Interface is still intent on achieving carbon-negative status by 2040, but without purchasing any carbon offsets
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3 Landscape Products that are Lighter on the Land
Discover how these sustainable solutions enhance urban spaces and boost well-being.
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5 Innovative Products to Dress Up the Ceiling
These decorative solutions for ceilings also solve real-world problems.
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Profiles
How TAKK Is Rethinking the Template for Architecture
For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño of Barcelona-based studio TAKK, every commission is a chance to question the norm.
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Products
7 Sustainable Furniture Designs from Spain
Explore how Spanish manufacturers are leading the way in environmentally responsible furniture.
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The Politics of Adobe Architecture
Recent scholarship on earth architecture in America highlights larger issues concerning power, extraction, and Indigenous resistance to the settler state and capitalism.
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3 Products That Do Double Duty
These furnishings that seamlessly blur the line between indoors and outdoors highlight the captivating power of design’s dualities.
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How AI Is Streamlining Schematic Design
Zenerate and Enscape are maximizing efficiencies, accessibility, and services in the early phases of design.
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7 Earth-Based Solutions for Building Closer to Nature
These solutions are either made entirely from recycled materials or are fully recyclable.
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Viewpoints
Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes
As part of their Alternative Practices project, Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy spotlight firms that are turning traditional Western design thinking on its head.
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Profiles
Format Architecture Office Envisions an Expansive Design Process
Format Architecture Office (FAO) helps clients hone their vision with a focus on the driving forces behind each design decision.
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These University Labs Expand the Agency for Future Architects
The following schools, labs, and incubators are contributing innovative solutions to make change both down the street and around the world.
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Projects
This Botanical Garden’s New Addition Is as Subtle as Light and Shadow
Whispers of texture and nature pull visitors through the Missouri Botanical Garden’s new visitor center and into the landscape beyond.
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Products
Studio Kër Looks at Design as Resistance
Former NFL star Michael Bennett’s format-defying furniture designs grapple with identity, history, and representation.
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Viewpoints
3 Sustainability News Updates for Q3 2024
Policy initiatives are gathering momentum as the federal government and building sector organizations align their expertise under the umbrella of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Profiles
Breland–Harper Mines the Past to Design a Better Future
In less than a decade, Ireland-Harper, the Los Angeles–based studio has completed over 100 adaptive reuse projects.
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Projects
McDonald’s Reimagines its Interiors through Radical Circular Design
A pilot program launching in McDonald’s France and Belgium aims to create sustainable interior renovations for the global fast-food brand