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Circular Design
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Profiles
What Is the True Value of Existing Buildings?
The Built Buildings Lab is helping broaden the preservation movement by overlaying the cultural, economic, and environmental significance of old buildings.
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Viewpoints
Closing the Loop at Interface
Interface’s Jay Lanier and Mikhail Davis discuss the company’s journey and its ongoing efforts around circularity.
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Viewpoints
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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Products
Jesús Llinares on Andreu World’s Path to Circular Design
The CEO of the Spanish furniture manufacturer speaks to METROPOLIS about the company’s history, approach to circularity, and recent research into bio-based materials.
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Projects
A Circular Apartment Block in Rotterdam Sets a New Green Standard
SAWA by Mei Architects and Planners was designed to meet the stringent climate goals set by the Paris Agreement.
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Viewpoints
9 Designers Revolutionizing Bio-based Materials
From 3D-printed date seeds to moss-covered facade panels, these projects showcase how bio-based materials are shaping the future of design.
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Viewpoints
How Construction Materials and Technologies Are Evolving
Follow METROPOLIS’s most compelling coverage of construction materials and technologies, from next-gen concrete to circular design.
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Products
How the Furniture Industry is Stepping Up on Circularity
Responding to new studies on the environmental impact of furniture, manufacturers, dealers, and start-ups are accelerating their carbon and circularity initiatives.
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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
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Viewpoints
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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Projects
OMA-designed AIR Circular Campus and Cooking Club Has Opened in Singapore
For its design of a dining hub in an upmarket part of Singapore, OMA and David Gianotten focused on circular flows of food, people, and materials.
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Viewpoints
A Guide to Circularity in Products
METROPOLIS rounds up its most compelling coverage of circular design in products, from rethinking plastic production to salvaging used materials.
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Viewpoints
These 15 Must-Reads Will Prepare You for 2024
We've gathered some of our best 2023 articles to inspire, provoke, and galvanize you for the year ahead.
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Viewpoints
How Design Bridges (and Divides) Communities Across North America
METROPOLIS's September/October 2023 explores the intersection of the built environment and community-building.
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Viewpoints
Can Designers Find New Beauty in Circularity?
METROPOLIS's July/August 2023 issue looks at the many benefits of circular, regenerative design—including new forms of pleasure and delight.
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Viewpoints
10 Provocations for Circular Design
METROPOLIS's editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal presents ten takes on the future of design and the circular economy.
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Profiles
Cornell’s Circular Construction Lab Champions Building-Material Reuse
Drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems, METROPOLIS rounds up seven groups that are championing building-material reuse.
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Profiles
Salvage Superstar: Doors Unhinged
This Pittsburgh company is one of seven drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems to change building-material reuse.
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Viewpoints
When a Building Comes Down, Where Do It’s Materials Go?
Recycling five essential materials—steel, concrete, drywall, glass, flooring—turns up different challenges, but architects can be part of the solution.