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Civic Architecture
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Programs
These Hospitality and Civic Projects Make a Positive Impact
The winners of Metropolis’s 2022 Planet Positive Awards in the hospitality and civic/cultural categories demonstrate how adaptive reuse and high-performance design can reduce carbon while improving occupant ex
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Projects
A Courthouse by Finegold Alexander Architects Optimizes the Power of Daylighting
In a Massachusetts gateway city, a courthouse pursues the lofty goals of community sensitivity and energy efficiency.
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Projects
6 Projects That Made the Netherlands a World Capital of Adaptive Reuse
A recent wave of large-scale projects is transforming five Dutch cities and encouraging creative reuse of derelict industrial sites around the world.
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Profiles
Beyond the Superdutch: A Portrait of Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architects
The Rotterdam firm explores local morphologies and material networks without veering into nostalgia or a fetishized idyll.
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Projects
A Renovation Saves Michael Graves’ Portland Building
DLR Group and contractor Howard S. Wright bring sweeping changes to the Postmodern landmark.
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Viewpoints
Now Is the Time for Radical Inclusion
Crises like COVID-19 should propel us to design more just and equitable products, buildings, and cities.
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Projects
Moxon Architects Updates a Civic Building in Scotland with a Bold, Steel-Clad Addition
The expanded 1853 town hall in Fraserburgh, Scotland, now features sandstone, granite—and Corten steel.
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Viewpoints
Already Great: Successful Civic Architecture Begins at the Municipal Level
While federal architecture dithers over style wars, civic projects at the city, county, and state-level march to the beat of a different drum.
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Projects
Kuehn Malvezzi’s Employment Office Kills Three Birds with One (Stone) Building
In Oberhausen, Germany, a new government center is topped by a greenhouse and thoughtfully extends public space.
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Projects
As Above, So Below: The Reception Pavilion for the National Assembly of Quebec Digs Deep
Montreal firm Provencher_Roy inserted a new underground pavilion that aims to make the parliamentary complex more accessible and transparent than ever.
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Projects
A 1959 Modernist Office in Sacramento Shines Again
The building’s midcentury architecture was historically significant, so architecture firm Dreyfuss + Blackford’s upgrades had to be thoughtful and subtle.
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Projects
Miller Hull Leverages Indoor-Outdoor Design for Del Mar, California’s New Civic Center
The building—which includes a town hall and city offices—features a 13,000-square-foot town commons that can host events and gatherings, such as the city's weekly farmer’s market.
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Projects
Revitalized Musée d’arts de Nantes Aims not for Spectacle but for Coherence
The newly reopened museum, one of France’s great art institutions, unites four centuries of architectural history.
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Viewpoints
Good-bye Grand Structures: The Small-Scale Civic Architecture of Today
Until we can once again believe in our collective destiny, the foreseeable future of American civic architecture is in precise, nimble interventions.