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Natural Habitat: Brooklyn’s New Mass Timber Community
The repetition of deceptively simple window bays on a Greenwich Village building conceals deep attention to innovation, craft, and context.
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The Power of Biophilia: Designing Buildings That Heal People and the Planet
METROPOLIS’s Winter issue explores how biophilic design continues to advance human well-being while evolving into a regenerative framework for buildings, ecosystems, and the planet.
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A New Airport by Foster + Partners Is a Celebration of Culture and Light
With its innovative modular roof and biophilic interiors, the Techo International Airport is a green gateway to Cambodia.
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Inside Sydney’s State-of-the-Art Home for Seafood
The new Sydney Fish Market, with generous public spaces and a sweeping mass timber roof designed by 3XN and BVN, is set to be the city’s next big tourist destination.
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Atlas Academy Rethinks the Stadium as a Miniature City
Mexico’s Atlas FC and Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos transform a flat site into a 90,000-square-foot campus, blending athletics and community in one adaptable structure.
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Under a Steel Canopy, NVIDIA Unveils a New Kind of Tech Campus
Designed by Gensler, the bold triangular campus uses geometry and light to support innovation at scale.
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Turkey’s Ephesus Experience Museum has Learnt History’s Lessons
With a building designed for disassembly and a cutting-edge virtual experience, this museum is the perfect response to Ephesus’s 3000-year history.
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In Chile, Monolithic Garden Follies Conceal a Group of Wellness Pavilions
The three interconnected buildings feature a unique glass interior and custom brick skin.
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Viewpoints
Next-Generation Designers Redefine Materials Beyond Convention
Three Future100 students are reshaping how materials interact with nature, climate, and history through innovative fabrication techniques.
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Profiles
BLDUS Brings a ‘Farm-to-Shelter’ Approach to American Design
The Washington D.C.–based firm BLDUS is imagining a new American vernacular through natural materials and thoughtful placemaking.
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KPF Reimagines the Arch in a Quietly Bold New York Facade
The repetition of deceptively simple window bays on a Greenwich Village building conceals deep attention to innovation, craft, and context.
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A Sustainable Expansion Revitalizes a Century-Old Quebec Retreat
In its extension to a family’s country residence, Pelletier de Fontenay sought to cohere parts and climate-sensitive approaches, old and new.
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This Arkansas Institute Brings a Holistic Vision to Health-Care Design
Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, Heartland Whole Health Institute weaves together nature, wellness, and architecture to reimagine how we care for the body and mind.
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Ronald Rael’s Solution to the Housing Crisis? Muddy Robots
The Berkeley, California–based architect’s new venture blends ancestral and artificial intelligence to create 3D-printed houses out of earth.
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Study Architects Designs a Water-Saving Desert Retreat in Arizona
The studio’s Tucson home combines Modernist aesthetics with innovative rainwater collection to tackle resource scarcity.
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Ken De Cooman Is a New Kind of Architect
BC Architects challenge conventional architecture practice by using local materials and a collaborative approach to reshape the industry.