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As 2018 concludes, we\u2019re revisiting this year\u2019s top stories: from products to drawings, buildings, controversies, and more. Enjoy the selection below, but be sure to find our other “Best of 2018” lists as they come online!<\/em><\/p>\n

Choosing the best buildings of the year is no easy task. The projects of 2018 all demonstrated varying degrees of technological innovation, structural daring, and material mastery. But if one thing unites our favorite buildings, it is their ability to address and embrace the communities they serve. Take a new library<\/a> in Helsinki: it is undoubtedly a soaring architectural achievement, yet it also finds new ways to bring in diverse audiences and reinvent the typology in a digital age. Kunl\u00e9 Adeyemi’s campus for a small school<\/a> in rural Tanzania achieves much of the same goals, but on a much tighter budget using local materials and labor. All six of the projects below are contextual, beautiful and fundamentally human-centric\u2014architecture at its finest.<\/p>\n

You might also like, “<\/em>Metropolis’s <\/a>Best of 2018: The 5 Objects and Exhibitions That Represented This Year<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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