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Jan/Feb 2022
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Viewpoints
Three Insights into the Future of Product Specification from ThinkLab’s Hackathon
A new book titled 100 Ways to Maximize Your Physical, Digital and Human Assets shares how designers are rethinking specification in the “phygital” era.
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Profiles
Julie Bargmann on Clogs as a Portal to Honoring Past Generations
The founder of D.I.R.T. Studio and inaugural winner of the Oberlander Prize for Landscape Architecture describes finding signs of life among post industrial ruins.
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Viewpoints
The Road to the Metaverse
Metropolis' January/February issue explores the Metaverse, diving into the future of design as the edges between virtual and physical worlds continue to blur.
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Projects
A Medical-Center Expansion by NBBJ Embraces its Northwest Setting
The St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, Washington opened its ten-story, 612,000-square-foot expansion in December 2020. Commanding views of the Olympic Mountains fill patients with a sense of relief and connection
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Projects
Outside Tulum SFER IK Shakes up the Familiar Museum Model
Deep in the Mayan jungle, the cultural center contains literally no flat floors or ceilings, and is made primarily of local timber, living trees, and vines.
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Products
Three Companies Pushing the Boundaries of Recycled Plastic
Manufacturers are diverting man-made plastic waste into delightful new designs. Is it helpful? Three companies and an expert on regenerative design weigh in.
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Profiles
Two Platforms Help Designers Specify Low-Carbon Interiors
Reseat harnesses the used furniture market to promote reuse, while Design for Health deciphers the sea of sustainability labels and certifications many products boast.
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Viewpoints
A New Book Sheds Light on Russel and Mary Wright’s Unconventional Home
The midcentury design power couple's upstate New York was a laboratory for experimentation with natural materials.
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Programs
Meet the 8 Winners of Metropolis’s Responsible Disrupters Program
The inaugural program honors projects that harness the power of technology for good.
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Projects
An Online World That Doesn’t Destroy the Real One
Three groups of student designers took on a near-impossible challenge: low-carbon server farms.
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Profiles
Fauzia Khanani Selects Good Design that Does Good, Too
Studio Fōr’s material choices and product selection are the product of its founder’s search for manufacturers that share her values.
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Projects
Three Technology Projects Represent Change for the Better
Tree Folio NYC, Dwelling Unit for Musicians, and Scout received honorable mentions in Metropolis’ inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition.
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Viewpoints
A Manifesto for the Metaverse
Space Popular presents: “8 Propositions for a Civic Portal Infrastructure for the Virtual Environment.”
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Projects
Henning Larsen Builds a Housing Agency’s New Home
The architecture firm collaborated with Denmark’s chief administrator of social housing on a headquarters that reflects its mission.
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Viewpoints
Exploring the Potential of Interiors and Design Objects in the Metaverse
In the metaverse, design is limitless, giving anyone the power to step into the role of designer and craft spaces and objects that best express who they are.
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Products
21 Interior Products from KBIS for Nesting at Home
A review of new residential products ahead of this February’s Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) suggests manufacturers are betting big on users’ need to cocoon.
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Projects
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects’ New Tool Merges Data with Humanity
The Open Source Homelessness Initiative, a winner of Metropolis' inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, lets visitors peruse case studies, reports, and news about building for the unsheltered.
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Projects
ZGF Architects Builds a Transparent and Inclusive Timber Assessment Tool
Upstream, a winner of Metropolis' inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, is an open-source calculator that gives designers a comprehensive view of the carbon impact of wood-based materials.
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Projects
David Baker Architects’ La Fénix Masters the Art of Affordable Housing
Located above a BART station in San Francisco, the complex consists of 157 affordable apartments including 20 percent set aside for formerly homeless families.
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Projects
Urban Sequoia Raises the Bar on Carbon Neutral Urban Design
SOM's Urban Sequoia, a winner of Metropolis' inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, envisions “forests” of carbon absorbers in cities—both within buildings and embedded into the spaces between them