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Climate Adaptation
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Viewpoints
How Can Designers Listen to Water?
Funded by architectural nonprofit re:arc institute, Latin and Central American practices are designing with water to create urban spaces for planetary well-being.
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Viewpoints
Will the New Version of LEED Be Better?
The world’s most popular green building certification is getting ready for an update. Here’s what you need to know about it.
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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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Projects
Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?
With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city.
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Projects
Xtreme LA Trains Tomorrow’s Design Leaders on Environmental Stewardship
Students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo leveraged traditional ecological knowledge and community engagement to envision a future for Morro Bay, California.
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Profiles
MODU Creates Architecture at the Threshold
The New York–based interdisciplinary design studio straddles the boundaries of buildings and sites to deliver new results on heat, shade, and microclimates.
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Viewpoints
Navigating the Path to Net Zero
METROPOLIS mines its archives for pioneering perspectives and projects that prove the possibilities of net zero design.
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Products
3 Building Products that Balance Resilience and Responsibility
From windows to roofing, these three products can withstand extreme heat, winds, UV exposure, among other natural threats.
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Viewpoints
3 Building Industry Takeaways from the UN Climate Change Conference
The built environment was a key focus at COP28, the world’s largest event dedicated to mobilizing against climate change.
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Viewpoints
Public Outdoor Spaces: Behind the Design of Powerful Parks
METROPOLIS gathers its top articles that explore how public outdoor spaces can make a significant impact on urban livability, community, and environmental health.