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Architecture
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Architecture by, for, and with America’s First Communities
Indigenous architects have methods and perspectives that could shape the future of the built environment.
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Projects
This UVA Campus Building Asks Students to Slow Down
At the University of Virginia, Aidlin Darling Design creates the Contemplative Commons, a cross-disciplinary hub where calm, clarity, and connection are embedded in the architecture itself.
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We Need a New Approach to Designing for Autism
Architects and designers need to update their strategies for neuroinclusive design. Recent research points the way forward.
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Populus Seattle Rewrites the Rules for Historic Reuse
The new hotel updates a historic building in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, setting it up for a green future.
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Deanna Van Buren Is Designing Justice and Belonging in Detroit
In collaboration with Quinn Evans and Allied Media Projects, the LOVE Building shows how architecture rooted in care, access, and justice can help shape a more inclusive future.
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The Science of Better Buildings
MIT’s Holly Samuelson breaks down how architects can build sustainable, livable spaces.
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33 Articles That Show the Future Is Mass Timber
Mass timber has taken over the architecture industry over the past few years—and METROPOLIS has been paying attention.
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Archtober and the AIA Center for Architects Invites You to Share Space
Archtober 2025: Sharing Spaces, The 15th edition brings together architects, artists, and the public for a month of events exploring how New Yorkers share and shape their city.
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Lessons in Global Design from Expo 2025 Osaka
What this year’s pavilions revealed about culture, sustainability, and the future of architecture.
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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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Archtober Invites You to Trace the Future of Architecture
Archtober 2024: Tracing the Future, taking place October 1–30 in New York City, aims to create a roadmap for how our living spaces will evolve.
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How Far Has 3D-Printed Architecture Come?
METROPOLIS tracks the development of 3D-printed buildings, and how they promises to revolutionize speed and sustainability in construction.
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32 Adaptive Reuse Projects for a Better Future
Through decades of coverage, METROPOLIS rounds up the best adaptive reuse stories and projects from around the globe.
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Profiles
Farshid Moussavi’s Open-ended Architecture Comes to the U.S.
The London-based architect keeps both her design process and her built projects fluid and ever-changing. The Ismaili Center in Houston will be her first project in the United States.
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Viewpoints
Behind the Great Public Architecture Boom of Belgium
Once ridiculed for the mediocrity of its architecture, Flanders is now home to some of the best new public buildings in the world.
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Design Milk Joins SANDOW DESIGN GROUP
SANDOW DESIGN GROUP welcomes Design Milk to its family of innovative media brands and services dedicated to distributing dynamic design content to the masses.
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Projects
Eric Owen Moss Architects’ (W)rapper Building Rises in Los Angeles
The daringly experimental (W)rapper is Eric Owen Moss Architects’ latest building in the Hayden Tract, an architectural playground on the city's Westside.
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Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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Future100 Dongqi Chen’s Architecture Thrives in Context
In dealing with the messiness of the built environment as it currently exists, Chen imagines a practical and optimistic future for architecture.
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Design That Reshapes Learning
Here's our guide to the projects and designers shaping the future of education.