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Sustainability

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.
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.
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.
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.
Profiles

Meet the 2026 Planet Positive Awards Jurors

METROPOLIS announces the esteemed jurors for the 2026 Planet Positive Awards, honoring excellence in sustainable design.
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.
Viewpoints

9 Stories of Hope for Earth Day 2026

These METROPOLIS articles offer inspiration through building reuse, nature-centered design, regeneration, and healing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Profiles

Mycelium Moldings: Shaping Space Through Change

METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Julian Camilo Trujillo Morales investigates yuca-based biopolymers.
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.
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.
Projects

An Ecological Education Center That Goes Beyond Net Zero

Designed by Lake|Flato, the Ryerson Woods Education Facility is the result of a client who wanted to “push the boundaries of sustainability.”
Viewpoints

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.
Profiles

What Restrooms and Parking Lots Teach Us About Cities

At WXY, a people-first approach is quietly reshaping how New York—and increasingly the country—thinks about public space, sustainability, and civic design.
Programs

The 2026 Planet Positive Awards

Applying to the most comprehensive awards for sustainable and healthy design will be easier than ever! Here's everything you need to know.
Viewpoints

The Science of Better Buildings

MIT’s Holly Samuelson breaks down how architects can build sustainable, livable spaces.
Projects

In Vancouver, The Butterfly Redefines High-Rise Living

Revery’s sculptural 57-story tower merges luxury housing, public programs, and heritage preservation while prioritizing daylight, fresh air, and social connection.