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Viewpoints
The Past, Present, and Future of Public Outdoor Space
Three recent initiatives in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Los Angeles imagine an equitable future for public space.
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Viewpoints
Lana Del Rey’s Music Has Always Taken Architecture Very Seriously
The singer-songwriter’s cultural universe includes keenly observed references to cities, neighborhoods, and buildings. And her fans are paying attention.
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Projects
This San Francisco Affordable Housing Development Is on a Mission
Discover how Mithun's Casa Adelante 2060 Folsom is combating climate change and advancing social and racial equity.
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Projects
The Rebirth of Houston’s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park
The newly opened Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie is the first phase in the revitalization of the drought-stricken 1,500-acrepark, the largest urban green space in Texas.
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Behind the Great Public Architecture Boom of Belgium
Once ridiculed for the mediocrity of its architecture, Flanders is now home to some of the best new public buildings in the world.
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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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Projects
David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House Is a Monument to Soft Power
The architect’s latest construction in Abu Dhabi is billed as a monument to tolerance and humanity, but a dubious human rights record hangs over the development.
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Projects
Inside Amsterdam’s Underwater Bike Parking Garage
Designed by VenhoevenCS, a new underwater bike parking facility has opened in Amsterdam Centraal Station, making space for over 4,000 bikes at the multimodal transportation hub.
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Viewpoints
How Singapore’s Design Freedom Grew from Strict Regulation
The island nation’s remarkable architectural narrative is getting the global regard it deserves.
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A New Novel Captures the Precarious State of Cities
Set in a dystopic Toronto, The Marigold explores how the twin forces of climate collapse and rapacious investment capital have pushed urban areas to the breaking point.
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Viewpoints
Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation
Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.
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Projects
Michael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect
Michael Maltzan’s gradual renovation of a Los Angeles art museum points the way to cultural architecture that engages with its context rather than focusing on flash.
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Viewpoints
Does Parking Explain the American City?
In a new book, journalist Henry Grabar explains how parking, more than any other force or need, shaped the fabric of American cities and suburbs.
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Projects
An Arts Complex in Melbourne Pushes against the Tide of Gentrification
Local firm Fieldwork converted a disused technical school into the Collingwood Yards development with an eye toward placemaking, accessibility, and social sustainability.
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Confronting Carbon Form, Embodied Carbon’s Complex Cousin
A recent exhibition at Cooper Union put forward a cogent definition of Carbon Form, our infrastructure’s deep indebtedness to extractive modes of production.
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Programs
Six Regional Impacts on Workplace Design
What regional factors are influencing current commercial office designs? Metropolis convened a panel of experts to find out.
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Profiles
Young Architects Address Agriculture through Design
Four members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 address food insecurity through schemes that bring agricultural producers and consumers closer together.
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Profiles
Student Designers Practice Radical Regeneration
These members of the Metropolis Future100 take on the earth’s most broken places and dare to heal and fortify them in the face of ecological and social uncertainty.
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Programs
What to Look Forward to at NYCxDESIGN’s 2023 Festival
New York City’s annual design week returns May 18–25 with exhibitions, public installations, and trade fairs—here’s what to look out for.