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Technology
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Viewpoints
How Are Architects and Designers Navigating AI?
Leading practitioners discuss how AI is changing their practices—and evolving the future of the industry.
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Viewpoints
MIT Future Fest Offered a Hopeful View of What’s Next
The inaugural five-day event brought together visionary leaders across design, technology, and art to address the world’s most pressing problems.
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Projects
An Urban Infill by LLDS Is Breaking the Mold in Melbourne
Transforming the Victorian terrace home typology, Northcote House sets the stage for digitally fabricated design.
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Programs
The Hidden Cost of Design Workflows
As architecture and design firms pursue ambitious sustainability goals, Bitreel is showing how reducing workflow waste can be as important as reducing material waste.
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Products
A New Design Logic for the Hybrid Meeting Room
Cisco’s Workspace Designer brings AV planning and spatial visualization into a single platform—signaling a broader shift in how hybrid meeting spaces are designed.
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Products
4 Architectural Facades Reimagining Contemporary Cladding
Contemporary facades and architectural surfaces are now infrastructure—highly performative, technically ambitious, and also increasingly complex to build.
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Projects
In Rural Alabama, a ‘Connected Classroom’ Is a Portal to Possibility
Designed by architect Danish Kurani, the Connected Rural Classroom expands access to specialized instruction through architecture and technology.
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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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Projects
The Boredom Factor: Rethinking Sustainable Design for Millennia
MIT’s Matter Design Lab and Cemex imagine a future where architecture is a reconfigurable artifact passed between generations.
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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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Profiles
Mycelium Moldings: Shaping Space Through Change
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree Julian Camilo Trujillo Morales investigates yuca-based biopolymers.
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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.
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Products
10 Kitchen and Bath Collections Embracing Color
From richly glazed hardware to expressive surfaces, these richly-hued designs signal a shift beyond the all-white aesthetic.
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Viewpoints
How Robotic Homebuilding Is Accelerating the Pacific Palisades Rebuild
Cosmic Buildings combines AI, on-site automation, and stick-built framing to speed recovery after California’s devastating fires.
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Viewpoints
Report: METROPOLIS Weighs in on Sustainable Design in the U.S.
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 captures the state of green building today and what comes next.
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Viewpoints
Inside Autodesk’s Sustainability Vision—and Actions
Joe Speicher, Autodesk’s chief sustainability officer, discusses how integrating AI and cloud tools can make sustainable design measurable and achievable across the built environment.
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Products
Tracing Mass Timber’s Full Life Cycle
Corgan introduces its mass timber carbon calculator, which measures the embodied emissions of biogenic carbon.
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Products
How to Embrace AI in Your Workflow
From automation to analysis, these 6 AI tools can collaborate with architects, designers, and manufacturers.
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Viewpoints
How a Fresh Materials Mindset Can Transform Your Projects
METROPOLIS’s Products 2025 issue explores inspired material alternatives that prevent harm, do good, and expand what’s possible in design.
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Products
4 Metals Transforming Building Aesthetics
Metals that are expanding design & performance with less carbon, better energy efficiency, and bold designs.