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Water
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Viewpoints
11 Tools Transforming Sustainable Design
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights technologies, systems, and approaches helping teams streamline their work and tackle complexity.
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Profiles
Designing Architecture in Dialogue with Water
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Kimhour Lor examines Cambodia’s complex and evolving relationship with water amid the climate crisis.
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9 Stories of Hope for Earth Day 2026
These METROPOLIS articles offer inspiration through building reuse, nature-centered design, regeneration, and healing.
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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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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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Viewpoints
Water, Wellness, and the World We Build
Kohler’s chief sustainable living officer explains how to harness water conservation to create meaningful change.
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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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Projects
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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Viewpoints
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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Projects
Regenerative Design as a Response to the Water Crisis in Mexico
Guided by ancestral knowledge and shaped through collective design, Reserva Peñitas uses a regenerative development model in Valle de Bravo offering a blueprint for ecological healing, resilience, and community governan
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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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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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Profiles
These Architecture Students Explore the Healing Power of Water
Design projects centered on water promote wellness, celebrate infrastructure, and reconnect communities with their environment.
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Projects
Seattle’s Vertical Convention Center Breaks the Mold
The LMN Architects–designed Summit Building reinvents the convention hall as a light-filled urban connector—and is one of few worldwide to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
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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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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
How Can Designers Listen to Water?
Funded by architectural nonprofit re:arc institute, Latin and Central American practices are designing with water to create urban spaces for planetary well-being.
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Products
8 Products and Sustainability Takeaways from KBIS 2024
Responsible manufacturing and healthy materials took centerstage at KBIS 2024, with new releases and programming.
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Projects
A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore
Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.