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Resilience
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Projects
On Maui, an Off-Grid House Is Tuned to Culture and Climate
Kupono Hale combines passive design, solar power, and local, upcycled materials in a new vision of Hawai‘i Contemporary.
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Viewpoints
4 Signals of a Systems Shift in Nature-Based Design
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights new research nudging climate action toward coordinated strategies linking materials, ecosystems, data, and policy.
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Viewpoints
Four New Roadblocks on the Path to Sustainable Buildings
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 warns of four systemic and infrastructural limits to a more sustainable built environment.
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Profiles
Emergent Vernacular Architecture Studio Builds for Community Resilience
From Haiti to Lebanon, the London-based studio helps create public spaces for those that need it the most.
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Viewpoints
Report: METROPOLIS Weighs in on Sustainable Design in the U.S.
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 captures the state of green building today and what comes next.
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Projects
New York Showcases the Next Generation of Flood Resiliency
At NYC's new East River Park, Bjarke Ingels Group has debuted parts of its “BIG U”: an assemblage of green, gray, and social infrastructure.
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Profiles
For Tallulah D’Silva, Architecture Is an Ecosystem
On Goa’s fragile coast, the Indian architect crafts resilient clay and wood homes that reclaim building as a shared cultural practice.
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Viewpoints
Insights from the METROPOLIS Leadership Summit at Neocon
How design leaders hope to push sustainable design forward—shifting language, scaling reuse, and collaborating to create systemic change.
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Profiles
Zoha Tasneem Centers Empathy and Ecology
The Parsons MFA interior design graduate has created an “amphibian interior” that responds to rising sea levels and their impacts on coastal communities.
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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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Projects
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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Products
3 Building Products that Balance Resilience and Responsibility
From windows to roofing, these three products can withstand extreme heat, winds, UV exposure, among other natural threats.
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Profiles
The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab Helps Communities Plan for Resilience
Six landscape architects at North Carolina State are creating nature-based interventions that help vulnerable communities recover from flooding and storm damage.
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Profiles
Meet the Urban Planners Reshaping Resilience in Mexico
ORU’s resilient urbanism transforms chain-link and concrete blocks into cultural infrastructure.
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Profiles
Marina Tabassum Builds Resilience in Precarious Contexts
Her Bangladesh-based architectural practice designs with and for the communities most affected by climate change.
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Projects
In Boston, a Development’s Approach to a Changing Coastline Is to Embrace It
Among the resilient features of Clippership Wharf is a “living shoreline” of marsh and native fauna.
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Viewpoints
In Mexico City, Designers Join Forces to Help the Underprivileged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The capital's robust design community is responding to the health crisis with creative action.
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Viewpoints
In Small Town Appalachia, Researchers Find an “Evolution Towards Resilience”
Columbia University students found consensus around the post-carbon economy and riverfront rehabilitation among Appalachian locals.
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Viewpoints
Long-Term Plans: To Build for Resilience, We’ll Need to Design With—Not Against—Nature
Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.
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Viewpoints
California’s Wildfires Prove that Resilient Design Needs Constant Evolution
Panelists at the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability event in Los Angeles last week pointed to policy and research on resilience as top priorities for architects and designers.