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Reuse
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Viewpoints
The Salvage Manifesto: Harness the Power of Material Reuse
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this manifesto explores the urgent need to invest in building material salvage to combat waste and environmental degradation.
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Dream Jobs for a Circular Built Environment
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.
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The Circular Buildings Podcast
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.
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A Circularity Score for Architecture and Interior Design Projects
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this assessment system guides teams in evaluating progress toward circularity in the built environment.
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A System for Circularity in Steel
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this system envisions collaborative pathways for reusing steel and lightening the built environment's carbon footprint.
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Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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Usability Assessment for Products and Materials
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.
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7 Proposals for a Circular Built Environment
Discover the forward-thinking solutions developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, which invited sustainability advocates to reimagine how we design and construct.
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How to Specify for a Happier World
METROPOLIS's 2024 Products Issue proves that a materials renaissance is under way—and it's great for people and the planet.
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Monroe Street Abbey Is an Armature from the Past for the Future
Discover how Jones Studio transformed the ruins of a former Baptist church in Phoenix into a community-centered garden and event venue.
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Products
How the Furniture Industry is Stepping Up on Circularity
Responding to new studies on the environmental impact of furniture, manufacturers, dealers, and start-ups are accelerating their carbon and circularity initiatives.
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McDonald’s Reimagines its Interiors through Radical Circular Design
A pilot program launching in McDonald’s France and Belgium aims to create sustainable interior renovations for the global fast-food brand
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Projects
In Mexico, a Coworking Space Captures a Community’s Creative Spirit
Santa Tere Espacio, a colorful adaptive reuse project in San Miguel de Allende, is a collaboration between Oficina de Diseño Colaborativo, Maye Colab, and Atelier TBD.
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Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?
With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city.
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32 Adaptive Reuse Projects for a Better Future
Through decades of coverage, METROPOLIS rounds up the best adaptive reuse stories and projects from around the globe.
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Projects
This New Cultural District is Creating Community on Detroit’s East Side
Little Village, a hub of parks, art galleries, cultural spaces, artist studios, restaurants, and more, is expanding the city’s revitalization beyond downtown.
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Profiles
Axel Olson Leans Into the Conceptual Side of Architecture
Breaking barriers and crossing disciplines comes naturally for this University of Michigan master's candidate and METROPOLIS Future100 honoree.
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Projects
Inside Google’s New York HQ in Historic St. John’s Terminal
A collaboration with CookFox and Gensler, the innovative adaptive reuse project transformed the 1930s rail station into a high-performance workplace that is designed to evolve.
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The Healthy Transformation of a Los Angeles Warehouse
Architecture firm Patterns turns a 1940s building into a senior care facility, resisting the car centricity of the area.
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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.