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Sustainability
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Projects
A New Housing Model for the Missing Middle
In Madison, Wisconsin, 301 Vanilla rethinks middle-income housing through prefabrication, low-carbon construction, and an architecture that prioritizes character over convention.
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Products
METROPOLIS’s Sustainability Lab Returns to NeoCon
Discover tools, ideas, and inspiration to make thoughtful material choices for a sustainable future.
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Viewpoints
An A-to-Z Guide to the America We Want to Build
For the United States’ 250th anniversary, METROPOLIS highlights the designers and ideas shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and imaginative future for the built environment.
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Viewpoints
Reseat’s Office Furniture Rescue
By salvaging huge amounts of quality office furniture bound for landfills, Reseat champions the circular economy.
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Programs
What Happens When Sustainability Drives Design
At the METROPOLIS Sustainability Leadership Summit in Chicago, designers and educators explored how sustainability can move beyond compliance to shape form, beauty, and narrative.
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Projects
On Maui, an Off-Grid House Is Tuned to Culture and Climate
Kupono Hale combines passive design, solar power, and local, upcycled materials in a new vision of Hawai‘i Contemporary.
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Viewpoints
Milan Design Week: 7 New Sustainable Products and Perspectives
At Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, installations and booths showcase lower-impact materials and products—from pollinator baths to recyclable polyester padding.
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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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Projects
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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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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Profiles
Meet the 2026 Planet Positive Awards Jurors
METROPOLIS announces the esteemed jurors for the 2026 Planet Positive Awards, honoring excellence in sustainable design.
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Viewpoints
Wolf-Gordon’s Material Journey
Chief Creative Officer Marybeth Shaw on decades of innovation, from early use of natural materials like cork to today’s PVC-free and bio-based offerings.
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Viewpoints
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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Profiles
What Is the True Value of Existing Buildings?
The Built Buildings Lab is helping broaden the preservation movement by overlaying the cultural, economic, and environmental significance of old buildings.
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Viewpoints
The Stories Moving Our Industry Forward
In the latest episode of Play with Matches, METROPOLIS Editor-in-Chief Avinash Rajagopal and UpSpring CEO Tiffany Rafii discuss the media’s role in elevating sustainability, equity, and innovation.
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Programs
Visit METROPOLIS’s Sustainability Lab at NeoCon
The Sustainability Lab will highlight innovations that give you the tools you need to design spaces that positively impact both people and the planet.
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Profiles
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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Profiles
Mycelium Moldings: Shaping Space Through Change
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Julian Camilo Trujillo Morales investigates yuca-based biopolymers.
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Programs
Material Bank Streamlines Material Sampling Across Europe
Discover the digital marketplace transforming how designers source materials—consolidating shipments, reducing packaging waste, and simplifying the sampling process.
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Profiles
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.