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Circularity in products
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Profiles
Inside Three SoCal Design Workshops Where Craft and Sustainability Meet
With a vertically integrated approach, RAD furniture, Cerno, and Emblem are making design more durable, adaptable, and resource conscious.
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Products
Discover the Winners of the METROPOLISLikes 2025 Awards
This year’s product releases at NeoCon and Design Days signal a transformation in interior design.
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Products
How to Make Smart, Sustainable Surfacing Choices
Discover the latest information and offerings in this category to help you make beautiful, sustainable choices on your next project.
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Viewpoints
How Do You Measure a Product’s Sustainability?
Global head of sustainability and impact for the iF Design Awards, Lisa Gralnek, discusses the challenges of evaluating sustainability across diverse design disciplines.
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Profiles
How Barbara Buser Sparked a Reuse Revolution
After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim building components, the Swiss architect is changing the rules of construction in Basel.
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Products
4 Manufacturers Lead the Way in Sustainable Surfaces
3form, Corian, Cosentino, and Wilsonart offer some of the most transparent surfacing products on the market.
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Profiles
Ken De Cooman Is a New Kind of Architect
BC Architects challenge conventional architecture practice by using local materials and a collaborative approach to reshape the industry.
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Products
10 Flooring Products that Look Good and Work Hard
These new flooring solutions are designed for beauty, performance, and durability.
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Products
This Swedish Startup Turns Paper Back into Wood
PaperShell is transforming plant-based materials into a durable artificial wood that can be used in furniture, building materials, and other applications.
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Products
Why Interface Wants to Phase Out Carbon Offsets
Interface is still intent on achieving carbon-negative status by 2040, but without purchasing any carbon offsets
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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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Products
Eight Building Products to Help You Push the Envelope
These solutions for walls, openings, and cladding are each best-in-class in some way—offering environmental benefits, aesthetic choices, and design possibilities like never before.
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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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Viewpoints
ThinkLab Shares Insights on the Dynamics of Sustainability in Decision-Making
ThinkLab helps us understand how the realities of product selection can maximize designers’ influence and impact.
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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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Products
4 New Products and Materials From Salone that Prioritize Circular Design
This year’s Salone del Mobile Milano showcased a host of products with renewable, recyclable, and biobased attributes. Here are four standouts.
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Products
Take a Step toward Circularity with These Products
Discover 10 products that make use of recycled, recyclable, or renewable materials or are designed for reuse, disassembly, and repair.
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Products
6 Trends for the Future of Textiles from Heimtextil
At the world's biggest fair for textiles, materials and technologies that were once experimental are now mainstream—and that bodes well for the planet.
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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.