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Wellness
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Viewpoints
Is Comfort Killing Us?
Amsterdam's Marc Koehler Architects and health mentor Enitor Joiner explore the role of physical and mental health in how we live at home.
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Profiles
Specify Hot List: Fauzia Khanani
The founding principal of Manhattan-based Studio Fōr has a background in public health, which has led her to specify materials according to data and her conscience.
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Projects
Creating a New Template For the Vet Experience
Design, Bitches' clinics for growing veterinary chain Modern Animal benefit both humans and their four-legged creatures.
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Programs
Can the Workplace Cure Burnout?
A Think Tank panel investigates how design changes can impact workers’ experiences in the office.
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Projects
A Medical-Center Expansion by NBBJ Embraces its Northwest Setting
The St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, Washington opened its ten-story, 612,000-square-foot expansion in December 2020. Commanding views of the Olympic Mountains fill patients with a sense of relief and connection
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Products
New Carpet from Patcraft Is Low in Embodied Carbon and Recyclable
Carpet is a staple of commercial interiors, so the positive impact of specifying something low in VOCs and embodied carbon is undeniable.
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Projects
26 Case Studies in Design for Impact
Metropolis's Design for Impact showcases how innovative architects and interior designers are leading the charge in creating a healthy, just, and sustainable world.
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Programs
Calling all Responsible Disruptors in Architecture and Design!
Metropolis's Responsible Disruptors program seeks to recognize the best A&D Tech and Research that changes the world for the better.
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Profiles
Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids
The IIDA's vice president and CEO discusses inclusion, a new pipeline for young talent, and her hopes for the upcoming year.
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Viewpoints
David Benjamin’s Venice Biennale Installation Makes the Case for Probiotic Living
While some experts seek to protect us from pathogens, others argue that we must learn to live with microbes.
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Projects
AUX Architecture Designs a Building That’s a Beacon of Light
The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center expands a synagogue and meeting space into a dynamic educational and performance venue in West L.A.
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Projects
In Canada, a Cabin Disappears into the Landscape
In the belief that humans are a part of nature, not distinct from it, Canadian architect Michael Leckie designs architecture that restores us to the wilderness and the wilderness to us.
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Programs
Designing a Healthier Building
A Perspective: Sustainability panel untangles the complexity of healthy material selection.
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Products
28 Products We Love at NeoCon
This year’s winners of the MetropolisLikes NeoCon awards reflect the trends reshaping contract interiors after a challenging year.
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Viewpoints
More Hospitals Confront Climate Change — Slowly.
Healthcare facilities are adding solar panels and cutting waste, with support from a new office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Projects
A Cancer Care Center Built to Weather the Elements
With a resilient design strategy harnessing responsive architecture, Perkins Eastman and Ennead Architects' David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care asks “why can’t hospital design be more intuitive?”
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Profiles
Curioso’s Residential and Hospitality Projects Take Root in Their Place
From Lake Michigan to the Yucatán, the Chicago interior design firm is reshaping the hospitality landscape with an emphasis on local character.
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Profiles
Through Creative Placemaking, Carbon Office Nurtures Community in Jackson, Mississippi
After stints in the local government, Salam Rida and Travis Crabtree are striking out on their own to help ameliorate the city’s long-standing problems.
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Viewpoints
Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture and design firms across the country have shared numerous toolkits and manuals, but will they help build a future rooted in equity?
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Viewpoints
How New Wellness Standards Are Reshaping Architecture
This year, a new set of sustainability codes and standards addressed an often-overlooked ecosystem: the human body.