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Architecture
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5 Buildings that Pushed Sustainable Design Forward in 2022
These schools and office buildings raised the bar for low-carbon design, employing strategies such as mass-timber construction, passive ventilation, and onsite renewable energy generation.
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Meet the 4 New Design Talents Who Made a Mark This Year
From product design to landscape architecture and everything in between, these were the up-and-coming design practices making a splash in 2022.
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The PAE Living Building Rises in Portland, Oregon
In a contracting office market, Portland’s PAE Living Building attracts tenants with resilience, mass timber, and indoor-outdoor gathering spots.
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3 of Metropolis’s Favorite Hospitality Projects of 2022
From off-grid luxury to big-city glitz, these hotels show how hospitality design is catering to a new generation of travelers.
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There Is No Design Without Community
Sloan Leo, artist and community design theorist, believes in the power of design to create a better future.
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CO Adaptive Uses Low-carbon Design to Rejuvenate Old Buildings
The Brooklyn-based architecture firm playfully reimagines historical structures while incorporating low-energy features and upcycled materials along the way.
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Architect Hani Rashid Builds a Fantasia of Art and Architecture in the Metaverse
Called Dminti Metaverse, the platform displays digital work by blue-chip artists in an otherworldly setting with the aim of attracting new, more diverse audiences.
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Google’s Global Carbon Program Manager on Reaching for the Impossible
Joel Cesare says designers and clients alike need to take the boldest approach possible to reduce carbon.
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5 Considerations for the Future of the Legal Workplace
What does the future of the law office look like? Metropolis convened a panel of expert designers to find out.
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The Orange County Museum of Art Embeds Culture in a Changing Suburban Context
Designed by Thom Mayne's Morphosis, the new art museum boasts radical geometry and public open space, but questions of access persist.
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Design for Equity Primer: 20+ Resources to Help You Design Inclusively and Fairly
This primer is a handy guide to toolkits, manuals, certifications, and indexes that can help you design with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind.
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Profiles
Moshe Safdie Is Architecture’s Constant Gardener
At 84, the visionary designer is still evolving architecture's capacity to build habitats for all living things.
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Studio Terpeluk’s Redwood House Pays Homage to Albert Lanier
The San Francisco–based architecture firm breathes new life into a notable Modernist home.
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UCLA’s 1959 Botany Building Is Transformed into a Quiet Gem
CO Architects led an effort to refresh the Paul R. Williams–designed building, bringing in light and adapting the space for modern educational needs.
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A Supportive Housing Development Offers Refuge from the Street and Connection to the City
Near Geneva, Switzerland, architecture collective Nomos designed a set of buildings for people with and without mental disabilities as one curvy entity.
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Profiles
Meet the Firm Building New Amenities for New York’s Underserved Communities
With a unique combination of architecture and construction expertise, GLUCK+ brings top-quality design to non-profits and public institutions in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx.
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For Mauro Porcini, Design Is All About Love
The chief design officer of PepsiCo shared his insights at Metropolis's inaugural Design Optimism symposium.
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Social Media Sameness in Design: How to Break the Algorithm and Increase Equity
A Think Tank panel hosted by IA Interior Architects guided designers through strategies to consider race, place, and culture in social posts.
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Montreal’s First Vertical Village Places Wellness at its Core
Designed by local firm Lemay, the mixed-use complex features WELL-certified rental units, restaurants, offices, and the Humaniti Hotel Montreal from Marriott’s Autograph Collection.
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An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.