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COVID-19
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Profiles
Jeremiah Moss Reflects on how Lockdown Brought a Temporary Sense of Freedom to New York City
The author's new memoir explores the weirder, wilder, and more interesting city that reappeared during the pandemic.
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Viewpoints
Materiality in a Post-COVID-19 World
Designers can help create healthy, safe interiors with thoughtful surface and filtration selections.
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Projects
In Southern California, Outdoor Dining Changes the Hospitality Landscape
The explosion of outdoor dining is both a survival tool for restaurants and a welcome cultural shift that may be here to stay.
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Viewpoints
Virginia San Fratello on Wandering in the Age of Covid
The architect-designer explicates the connections between wandering around Colorado's San Luis Valley and her experiments in 3D printing.
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Viewpoints
The Future of CEUs Is Digital
How will continuing education units evolve in 2021 and beyond?
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Viewpoints
How the Pandemic Has Jump-Started Creativity
Three ways companies have shifted to survive during these changing times.
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Projects
Future100: From Testing Centers to Work-From-Home Towns, Students Respond to the Pandemic
Six architecture and design students took inspiration from our "new normal" to imagine safer interiors and greener neighborhoods.
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Viewpoints
Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture and design firms across the country have shared numerous toolkits and manuals, but will they help build a future rooted in equity?
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Projects
Studio O+A’s Toolkit Says Returning to the Office Can Be Joyful
The interior design firm takes a comprehensive look at workplace re-entry, considering the perspectives of both tenants and landlords.
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Products
Debunking Common Misconceptions Surrounding Materials and Cleanability
Health and wellness expert Rod Vickroy provides some guidelines for selecting the right materials for different projects’ cleaning needs.
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Viewpoints
15 Must-Read Articles to Get You Into the 2021 Mindset
With fresh perspectives, deep expertise, and painstaking reporting, Metropolis contributors give you the design insights you need for the next 12 months.
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Viewpoints
Novel Architecture in the Age of the Novel Coronavirus
In a time of unprecedented uncertainty, young architecture practices are proposing solutions to meet the demands of multiple simultaneous crises.
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Viewpoints
A New Standard Helps Create Confidence That It’s Safe to Return
The Well Health-Safety Rating developed by IWBI offers third party verification of health and safety features as buildings begin to reopen to the public.
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Projects
Signs of the Times: Wayfinding in the Age of COVID-19
With the pandemic as the impetus, three design firms reimagine the future of wayfinding, graphic communication, and circulation.
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Products
Are Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces Really What We Think?
Various metals and chemical agents have long been touted for their antimicrobial properties, but the effectiveness and safety of the materials are far from certain.
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Viewpoints
The Future of Materiality: 5 Key Insights from ThinkLab’s Digital Seminar
A host of experts convened to discuss the future of clean, safe interiors—it has little to do with anti-bacterial surfaces and more to do with behavior and experience.
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Viewpoints
Architects and Designers Urge Action on Healthier Policy Priorities
Three recent initiatives outline how experts in the built environment are advocating for policy changes for public health and climate change.
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Projects
This Concept for a COVID-19 Memorial Builds a Stronger Community
Yale architecture students tackle the challenge of designing a memorial to victims of the pandemic in New Haven.
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Projects
citizenM’s Newest Location in Seattle Offers a Glimpse of the Post-COVID Hotel Experience
The hotel chain was always known for a tech-filled experience, but the pandemic is streamlining check-ins while accelerating hygiene protocol.
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Viewpoints
Maintaining Work-Life Balance During and After a Pandemic
New research from ThinkLab highlights the need to balance the emotional and physical needs of all employees, whether they work in the office or remotely.