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Housing
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Student Housing That’s Resilient by Design
A bioclimatic university project in Dakar weathered ten years of change by staying flexible—and, in doing so, made a case for building African architecture from African earth.
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Profiles
3XN Designs at the Public Edge
From Toronto’s waterfront neighborhoods to Sydney’s iconic harbor, the Danish firm shows how architecture can balance private development, civic access, and environmental stewardship.
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In Tulum, V Taller Inverts the Symbolism of the Tower of Babel
Mexican architects V Taller reconcile housing for tourists and long-term residents with urban chaos at the edge of the rapidly developing Mayan jungle.
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Viewpoints
Perkins&Will Develops an Open-Source Framework for Timber Housing
The Modular Timber Housing prototype is a flexible and accessible design framework to drive economic development on Canada’s West Coast.
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BLDUS Unveils a Cork-Wrapped Home in a Washington D.C. Alley
Adjacent to another BLDUS project, the house is made of locally sourced redwood, cedar, black locust board, and Bamcore Eucalyptus panels.
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Profiles
Alexandra Croft’s Seapunk Design Rethinks Waste and Water
Blurring the lines between land and sea, the RISD student explores waste systems through a sensorial, nonlinear, & ecologically attuned design practice.
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Viewpoints
Antje Steinmuller Wants to Get the Housing Question Right
Beginning her tenure this past summer, Taubman College’s new chair of architecture is rethinking housing through identity and density.
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Profiles
Four Architecture Students Respond to the Housing Crisis
With modular, quick-to assemble housing designs attuned to local needs and context, these members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 show advanced methodologies and humanitarianism go hand in hand.
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Profiles
Clytie Hoi Ting Mak Explores the Human Psyche through Design
Mak, a member of the 2023 Metropolis Future 100 brings together multiple design disciplines to explore the relationships between the forms of the built environment and the human psyche.
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Profiles
Wittman Estes Creates Places where Architecture and Landscape Intertwine
The Seattle-based firm’s nature-based approach is rooted in a belief that the best designs give more to their surroundings more than they take.
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Is Coliving Finally Having Its Moment?
Long touted as a housing solution for young people in urban centers, interest in coliving appears to be surging with new projects in the U.S. and Europe that boast affordability and built-in community.
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El Borinquen Residence Welcomes Supportive Housing in Vivid Color
Alexander Gorlin Architects’ newest supportive housing project in the Bronx draws on Latin Modernism to enmesh itself in its context.
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Profiles
Liv-Connected’s Design-forward Units Are Helping Redefine Modular Housing
Born out of a mission to provide comfortable shelter to disaster victims, the brand is now targeting the “missing middle” of American housing.
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Viewpoints
Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
Christopher Hawthorne, L.A.’s chief design officer, discusses how a culture of design innovation is helping tackle a growing calamity and provide dignity, shelter, and gracious interior spaces to thousands.
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A San Fernando Valley Housing Project Sets a New Standard
Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa creates a “guardian of the block” on a corner lot in the San Fernando Valley.
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In Brooklyn, a Supportive Housing Development gets the Big Firm Treatment
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) provided the design for Edwin’s Place, a 125-unit affordable and supportive development, but getting the project built took a village.
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Profiles
Future100: These Students Channel Personal Narrative into Supportive Housing
Seven undergraduate and graduate architecture students reflect on their personal experiences and lineages to design ethical, supportive, and sustainable housing projects.
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John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects’ New Tool Merges Data with Humanity
The Open Source Homelessness Initiative, a winner of Metropolis' inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, lets visitors peruse case studies, reports, and news about building for the unsheltered.
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In Amsterdam, a Socially Conscious Housing Development Takes Formal Inspiration from the Past
Marcel Lok and Korth Tielens Architects designed an 80-unit residential structure in the style of the Amsterdamse School with the hope of creating a new heart for an old neighborhood.
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4 Standout National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Responding to the theme "How will we live together?" national pavilions examine the local and global factors that produce unique housing patterns.