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Glasgow’s O’DonnellBrown Balances Conservation and Community Centered Design
From outdoor classrooms to riverside parks, the Scottish architecture studio specializes in adaptive reuse projects that give back to the community….
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This Student Dreams of Engaging the Public Through Design
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Emily Zheng champions civic landscapes made with community engagement….
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What Is the True Value of Existing Buildings?
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This Architecture Student Designs Through Productive Friction
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Architecture by, for, and with America’s First Communities
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Mycelium Moldings: Shaping Space Through Change
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Julian Camilo Trujillo Morales investigates yuca-based biopolymers.
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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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What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About Cities
At WXY, a people-first approach is quietly reshaping how New York—and increasingly the country—thinks about public space, sustainability, and civic design.
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Moshe Safdie Is Architecture’s Constant Gardener
At 84, the visionary designer is still evolving architecture’s capacity to build habitats for all living things.
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Spanish Firm ERRE Is Quietly Transforming the City of Valencia
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Emergent Vernacular Architecture Studio Builds for Community Resilience
From Haiti to Lebanon, the London-based studio hel…
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For Studio Saar, Architecture is about Facilitation
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Rafael Freyre Creates Architecture that can Return to the Land
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Max Strang Is Advancing Florida’s Architectural Legacy with Environmental Modernism
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