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Landscape
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Profiles
This Student Dreams of Engaging the Public Through Design
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Emily Zheng champions civic landscapes made with community engagement.
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Profiles
What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About Cities
At WXY, a people-first approach is quietly reshaping how New York—and increasingly the country—thinks about public space, sustainability, and civic design.
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Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water
Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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Calder Gardens Brings Stillness to Philadelphia’s Parkway
Piet Oudolf’s signature garden and Herzog & de Meuron’s subterranean museum unite to create a quiet sanctuary for Alexander Calder’s art on Philadelphia’s grand boulevard.
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Brutalist Plaza in Minneapolis Gets a “Surgical” Redesign
By considering reuse and accessibility, Coen+Partners’ redesign of Paul Friedberg’s iconic landscape is the kind of historic preservation we need.
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The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life
On NYC’s 400th birthday, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Weiss/Manfredi, and Marvel talk about civic spaces that shape the city's infrastructure.
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Products
7 Sustainable Products Redefining Outdoor Comfort
Discover how innovative materials and thoughtful design are elevating outdoor spaces for people, planet, and place.
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Projects
How Architectural Sculpture in the U.S. Reimagines Public Space
From a mirrored canopy in Georgia to a 3D-printed adobe pavilion in the desert, these projects fuse design, engineering, and narrative.
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Projects
The Project That Remade Atlanta Is Still a Work in Progress
Atlanta's Beltline becomes a transformative force—but as debates over transit and displacement grow, its future remains uncertain.
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Profiles
The Next Generation Is Designing With Nature in Mind
Three METROPOLIS Future100 creators are looking to the world around them for inspiration.
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Projects
Storm King Takes the Parking out of Sculpture Park
Storm King Art Center's Capital Project has completely transformed its parking, visitor pavilions, and grounds for a more accessible—and less car-centric—outdoor art experience.
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Viewpoints
Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines
The annual studio, now in its fourth year, brings together students from various universities to envision adaptable futures for coastlines in the Northeast United States.
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Profiles
Alberto Kritzler is at the Forefront of Regenerative Design in Mexico
The Harvard Loeb Fellow is rethinking water scarcity and abundance through his Reserva el Peñón project in in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
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Viewpoints
The Landscape Architecture–AI Buffer Zone
How long can the idiosyncrasies of landscape architecture keep the promise and peril of artificial intelligence at bay?
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Profiles
Billy Fleming and His Students Are Designing a Green New Deal
In his recent studio course, designer and University of Pennsylvania educator imagines a more just landscape architecture studio…by taking his students to a uranium mine in Greenland.
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Projects
Two Former USPS Facilities Now Have Massive Rooftop Gardens
The adaptive reuse of Postal Service facilities in Manhattan and Chicago include rooftop gardens bigger than many of these cities’ more famous parks.
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Profiles
Walter Hood: Facing History Through Landscapes
How the celebrated landscape architect proves the power of green space to tell new stories, communicate culture, and confront hard truths
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Viewpoints
Designed Landscapes Are Surprisingly Carbon Intensive (And They Don’t Have to Be)
Urban landscapes often include plenty of hardscape made with materials that can have significant carbon footprints.
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Viewpoints
The Past, Present, and Future of Public Outdoor Space
Three recent initiatives in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Los Angeles imagine an equitable future for public space.
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For Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture is the “Art of Survival”
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Award winner talks to METROPOLIS about our changing planet, his “Sponge City” concept, and nature-based solutions to urban planning.