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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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From Transfer Machine to Front Door: Pittsburgh Reinvents Its Airport

Pittsburgh International Airport’s new $1.7-billion terminal transforms a once-fragmented system into a unified, landscape-driven “front door” to the city.
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How The Craft of Kawai Kanjirō Teaches Us to Find Beauty in the Unknown

On the 100th anniversary of the Japanese mingei movement, New York’s Japan Society puts on the first U.S. retrospective of the folk potter and Living National Treasure.
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The Productive Tension of Prefabrication

Casa Guadalupe by HANGHAR pairs the logic of industrial building with a softer domestic language, revealing how prefab architecture, and design practices, can negotiate both rigor and warmth.
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Photographer Morris Lum Gives Chinatowns the Attention They Deserve

His new book, Chinatowns: Tong Yan Gaai, shows large format photography taken across 16 different Chinatowns across North America.
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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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A New York City Home Transforms into a Two-Part Sanctuary

With a light touch and a tight budget, Leong Leong drew from what was already there—materials, layout, and memory—to shape a quietly expressive residence.
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Architecture by, for, and with America’s First Communities

Indigenous architects have methods and perspectives that could shape the future of the built environment.
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What are the Implications of AI for Interior Design?

The METROPOLIS and Innovant round table invited design leaders to debate how AI will transform how we design and what we design.
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A New Era of Senior Living

Projects across the U.S, Canada, and Europe, are creating new models for community-centered care.
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Liam Young Is World-Building With Spatial Design

As the climate crisis shifts from a technological problem to a crisis of imagination, the architect and film director calls on designers to construct new planetary narratives.
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Design in Motion: Boston Launches a Festival for the Next Generation

Boston’s Design Student Film Festival foregrounds time-based media as a tool for critique, storytelling, and the creation of new spatial imaginaries.
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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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This UVA Campus Building Asks Students to Slow Down

At the University of Virginia, Aidlin Darling Design creates the Contemplative Commons, a cross-disciplinary hub where calm, clarity, and connection are embedded in the architecture itself.
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METROPOLIS Arch30 Boston: Advancing the Next Generation of Architects

Boston’s next generation of architects, affiliated with leading firms, convened for METROPOLIS’s Arch30 event, celebrating innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
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We Need a New Approach to Designing for Autism

Architects and designers need to update their strategies for neuroinclusive design. Recent research points the way forward.
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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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The New New Museum: A Pair, Not an Addition

Designed by OMA, the new addition in New York's Bowery brings openness, transparency and infrastructural ambition—but also unresolved questions about material, performance, and user experience
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Altadena’s Rebuild Begins with Listening

Led by SoCal NOMA, the Altadena Rebuild Coalition is guiding fire-impacted residents through recovery by prioritizing empathy, coordination, and community.
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Denmark’s Tallest Timber Tower Tests Circular Construction at Scale

In Aarhus, the 20-story TRÆ development by Lendager pairs a mass-timber structure with a broad palette of reclaimed materials to test a pragmatic model for low-carbon high-rise construction.