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Education
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A South African Kindergarten Lets Children Wander
Johannesburg-based Hubo Studio imagines the Redhill Early Learning Centre as a “mini city” that promotes discovery, movement, and independence.
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Inside the New Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music
Designed by CookFox Architects, the center is a grand achievement in material health, social equity, and sustainable design.
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An Ecological Education Center That Goes Beyond Net Zero
Designed by Lake|Flato, the Ryerson Woods Education Facility is the result of a client who wanted to “push the boundaries of sustainability.”
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This UVA Campus Building Asks Students to Slow Down
At the University of Virginia, Aidlin Darling Design creates the Contemplative Commons, a cross-disciplinary hub where calm, clarity, and connection are embedded in the architecture itself.
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Designing for Health, Designing with Care
Leaders from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, and NYU Langone Health show how sustainability is foundational to great healthcare architecture.
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David Kohn Designs a Whimsical Quad for New College Oxford
With distinctive undulating roofs, diamond-patterned stone facades, and a series of stone gargoyles, the addition brings a playful approach to the historic campus.
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NBBJ’s Westmark School is Designed for Learning Differences
The firm worked with landscape architects SWA to create an education space dedicated to both physical and emotional well-being.
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Laura Guido-Clark Wants Designers to Stop Being Afraid of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with designer and color expert Laura Guido-Clark to learn more about her nonprofit Project Color Corps and color methodology Love Good Color.
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Payette’s New EXP Building is Designed for Research and Built to Perform
How Northeastern University is fostering exploration through insightful and transparent design.
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Lendager Completes the World’s First Ecolabeled Kindergarten
Located in Copenhagen, The Swan was constructed out of upcycled materials reused from a former school on the same site.
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At Wellesley, a Science Center is Reimagined as a Learning Village
SOM overhauls the university’s science complex, crafting a lively place to learn out of an unloved 1970s hall.
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These Workplace and Education Projects Benefit People and Planet
The winners of Metropolis’s 2022 Planet Positive Awards in the workplace and education categories demonstrate how adaptive reuse and high-performance design can reduce carbon while improving occupant experienc
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Dori Tunstall Wants to Show You How to Decolonize Design
Her new book, Decolonizing Design is a handbook for social-justice oriented designers of all stripes.
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ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management Welcomes All to Phoenix
Expected to achieve LEED Gold, this dynamic building by Moore Ruble Yudell and Jones Studio sets a new standard for education spaces in the 21st century.
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Building a New Model for the Campus Library
The University of Arizona’s Student Success District offers a holistic approach to on-campus resources for a Gen-Z student body.
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Office for Political Innovation’s Reggio School Treats Structure and System as Pedagogy
The six-story school on the outskirts of Madrid blends sustainable design with the principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach.
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An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.
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Surviving and Thriving
With a focus on learning, the March/April issue of Metropolis celebrates the Future100 and sheds a light on how design is reshaping the spaces where education takes place.
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Profiles
Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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Design That Reshapes Learning
Here's our guide to the projects and designers shaping the future of education.