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MIT Future Fest Offered a Hopeful View of What’s Next
The inaugural five-day event brought together visionary leaders across design, technology, and art to address the world’s most pressing problems.
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Reseat’s Office Furniture Rescue
By salvaging huge amounts of quality office furniture bound for landfills, Reseat champions the circular economy.
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Populus Seattle Rewrites the Rules for Historic Reuse
The new hotel updates a historic building in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, setting it up for a green future.
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Tuckey Design Studio Is Rooted in Reuse
Throughout design and construction, the London-based studio takes a circular, materially sensitive approach to both adaptive reuse and new builds.
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In Chicago, a Shuttered School Becomes a Beacon of Community Design
Lamar Johnson Collaborative turns the former elementary school into the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, a hub for career training and community pride.
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For Kelly Dix Van, Everyday Architecture Matters
The SCI-Arc architecture graduate explores the complexities of self-building practices and material reuse in Cartagena, Colombia.
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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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How Barbara Buser Sparked a Reuse Revolution
After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim building components, the Swiss architect is changing the rules of construction in Basel.
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10 Provocations for Circular Design
METROPOLIS's editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal presents ten takes on the future of design and the circular economy.
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Woodward Throwbacks Transforms Landfill-Bound Goods into Modern Furniture
The Detroit-based manufacturer is one of several groups drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems to change building-material reuse.
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Rheaply Brings Ingenuity to Recycling Building Materials
Drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems, these seven groups are championing building-material reuse.
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Salvage Superstar: Doors Unhinged
This Pittsburgh company is one of seven drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems to change building-material reuse.
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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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NewLab Puts Down Roots in Detroit
Architecture firm Civilian helps transform Albert Kahn’s Detroit Book Depository into a sprawling incubator for innovations in mobility technology.
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L’Oréal’s West Coast Headquarters Puts Sustainability Front and Center
Architecture firm Blitz employs a place- and nature-based design strategy for the cosmetics company's LEED- and WELL-certified workplace.
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This Oslo Workplace Is Made of 80 Percent Upcycled Building Materials
Local firm Mad Arkitekter refurbishes an office building using demolition waste, changing the conversation around material reuse.
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Building Pittsburgh’s Med-tech Future on an Industrial Past
Designed by ZGF Architects around a century-old Ford plant, the Assembly is new medical research complex for the University of Pittsburgh.
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How Midsize Cities Are Driving America’s Urban Transformation
Explore how American cities with populations under 1 million are reimagining themselves with bold projects and policies, and driving urban transformation and innovation.
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The Singapore-Born Exhibition ‘R for Repair’ Travels to the United Kingdom
At London Design Festival, the second edition of the show commissioned by DesignSingapore Council is on view in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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The Future of American Design Is Reinvention, Reuse, and Renewal
The July/August issue of Metropolis celebrates the American tradition of confronting history with creativity.