Sustainability
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Zoha Tasneem Centers Empathy and Ecology
The Parsons MFA interior design graduate has created an “amphibian interior” that responds to rising sea levels and their impacts on coastal…
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How Can We Design Buildings to Heal, Not Harm?
Jason McLennan—regenerative design pioneer and chief sustainability officer at Perkins&Will—on creating buildings that restore, replenish, and revive the…
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Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing
Architects today are thinking beyond the curtain wall, using glass to deliver high energy performance and better comfort in a variety of…
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How Can We Design Buildings to Heal, Not Harm?
Jason McLennan—regenerative design pioneer and c…
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Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing
Architects today are thinking beyond the curtain w…
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Inside Three SoCal Design Workshops Where Craft and Sustainability Meet
With a vertically integrated approach, RAD furnitu…
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Sustainability News Updates for Q2 2025
Renewable energy growth, carbon benchmarking, and circular design strategies shaping the built environment.
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Meet the Changemakers Shaping Tomorrow’s Buildings
METROPOLIS’s 2025 Spring Issue spotlights designers and architects going the extra mile, redefining what it means to design for climate, community, and lasting impact.
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A New Concept for Good Architecture: Embodied Justice
As the social justice movement thrives and the concept of embodied carbon shifts the climate conversation, architects and designers are reexamining the deep impact of their work.
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How Do You Measure a Product’s Sustainability?
Global head of sustainability and impact for the i…
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Lessons in Global Design from Expo 2025 Osaka
What this year’s pavilions revealed about cultur…
Projects
A Sustainable Expansion Revitalizes a Century-Old Quebec Retreat
In its extension to a family’s country residence…
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Four Creatives Harnessing the Energy of the Sun
Designers Shani Nahum, Pauline van Dongen, Yvonne …
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Rice University’s New Architecture Hall Revives Terra-Cotta Tradition
Swiss firm Karamuk Kuo’s first U.S. project merg…
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Is the Furniture Industry Failing to Connect the Dots?
Mebl’s Michael J. Hirschhorn and Lot21’s Lew E…