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Architecture
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Architecture for London Creates Passive Homes Without Compromising Aesthetics
The London practice has a simple and straightforward mission: to create healthy, energy-efficient, and good-looking buildings.
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Viewpoints
How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History
This year's sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters are the latest in an ongoing relationship between architecture and science fiction.
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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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This Brooklyn Multifamily Community Is Sustainable—and Affordable
Passive House mixed-use development Chestnut Commons provides affordable housing to formerly homeless and low-income residents within a self-sustaining neighborhood.
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Viewpoints
How Architects and Designers are Dreaming of a Different Way
METROPOLIS's November/December 2023 explores the critical mass of experimentation with both the materials and methods of architecture and interior design today.
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Viewpoints
MoMA Misses the Roots of American Environmentalism
A historical survey of eco-conscious Modernism at MoMA underrepresents both the origins of sustainable architecture and the contemporary dilemmas of architectural discourse.
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Projects
ASU’s Fusion on First Cut Its Energy Needs—and Costs—by Half
Designed by Studio Ma, the facility proves that higher education buildings can deliver on student experience, urban connectivity, and climate action while keeping the bottom line under control.
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Programs
Design Optimism Talks: Behind the Magic of Disney Imagineering
Global creative strategy executive Zach Riddley explored how the company’s creative arm builds places that bring joy during the December session of METROPOLIS’s Design Optimism Talks.
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This 120 Year Old Brooklyn Building is now a Powerhouse for the Arts
Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW have transformed the 1904 Central Power Station into a nonprofit arts fabrication facility.
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Profiles
How Tall Architects Made a Place for Itself in Coastal Mississippi
By being selective with projects and scrappy with materials, Madison and Mark Talley built their community-focused design practice in Ocean Springs.
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Projects
Behind This Seattle Office’s Pursuit of LBC 4.0 Certification
Mithun's renovation of its own waterfront headquarters is on track to make it one of the first buildings certified under the new Living Building Challenge standards.
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Profiles
How Can We Rethink Architecture and Design Models?
Designers Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy's new initiative Alternative Practice is on a mission to reprioritize the values that drive business and design solutions.
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Projects
Houston’s Lynn Wyatt Square Is Full of Clever Delights
The new plaza invites impromptu performances, serendipitous discoveries, and little moments of joy in the heart of Houston's Theater District.
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Programs
METROPOLIS Celebrates the Arch30 Chicago Cohort
They city’s most promising emerging architects, affiliated with influential firms, convened for METROPOLIS’s Arch30 event held in November.
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Bowdoin College Unveils Maine’s First Commercial Mass Timber Project
Discover how the new pair of HGA-designed buildings further the campus’s commitment to carbon neutrality.
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Viewpoints
These 15 Must-Reads Will Prepare You for 2024
We've gathered some of our best 2023 articles to inspire, provoke, and galvanize you for the year ahead.
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Viewpoints
Why Does Architecture Education Cost So Much?
Tuition fees have doubled, wages are still low, and many professionals are deep in debt. Can we do something about it?
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How Design Bridges (and Divides) Communities Across North America
METROPOLIS's September/October 2023 explores the intersection of the built environment and community-building.
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Viewpoints
Amazon’s HQ2 Conceals its Agenda with the Latest Sustainability Strategies
Phase one of the new North Virginia sister campus opened this Summer, thinly veiled in environmental and social empathy.
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What Architects and Designers Need to Know About Embodied Carbon
From complex topics such as carbon form to advice on how to specify carbon-neutral furniture, METROPOLIS provides a lay of the land for carbon and design.