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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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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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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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Viewpoints
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.
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Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Metropolis Planet Positive Awards
The Metropolis Planet Positive Awards recognize projects and products that make a positive impact on people and planet.
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Projects
Studio 804 Teaches Architecture Students How to Learn Through Building
A capstone course at the University of Kansas produces a new building every year by focusing on meaningful exploration, innovative use of sustainable materials, and executable solutions.
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Iowa State University Student Innovation Center Encapsulates Its Mission Through Design
KieranTimberlake and Substance Architecture designed the glass-clad building with a concrete interior to orchestrate a striking duality of materials and an invitation for students to create.
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A Mississippi School Models Collaborative Reuse
Architect Jonathan Tate applies his firm's successful formula to the design of a Clarksdale elementary school.
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This Hyper-Sustainable Elementary School Is the First of its Kind
Perkins Eastman rebuilds and revitalizes the John Lewis Elementary School in Washington, D.C., aiming for net-zero-energy, LEED Platinum, and WELL certification.
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Reviving a Southern California Legacy Girl Scouts Camp
With new A-frame cabins and a communal dining hall, Perkins&Will sets Camp Lakota on a course for the next generation of scouting.
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Herzog & de Meuron Design a Space to Innovate in London
Kitted out with new research facilities and studios, the Royal College of Art hopes ideas and knowledge will collide in the latest addition to its South London campus.
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Programs
35 Winners of the MetropolisLikes NeoCon Awards 2022
This year’s MetropolisLikes NeoCon awards embody the best in manufacturing strategies that meet the needs of healthy, climate-ready interiors.
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Projects
A School From the 1860s Is Transformed into a Museum of Language
Beyer Blinder Belle reimagined the Franklin School in Washington, D.C., as Planet Word, the world’s first voice-activated museum of language.
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Viewpoints
An MIT Study Shows Design Can Increase Engagement
A group of researchers at MIT found that the right level of crowdedness led to more chance encounters and more frequent communication across disciplinary boundaries.
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Projects
A Brand-New Mies van der Rohe Joins Indiana University’s Collection of Modernist Buildings
Based on a never-built 1952 design, the new building will house the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture & Design, while graduate architecture programs occupy another modernist gem in nearby Columbus.
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Viewpoints
Surviving and Thriving
With a focus on learning, the March/April issue of Metropolis celebrates the Future100 and sheds a light on how design is reshaping the spaces where education takes place.
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Profiles
Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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Viewpoints
You Can’t Lift Up America’s Schools Without Lifting Up the Neighborhoods Where They Operate
Ron Bogle, CEO of the National Design Alliance, promotes revitalizing learning centers and their settings together.
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Projects
Ge Hekai Hall at Wenzhou-Kean University Unites Students and Disciplines
At an American college in China, Moore Ruble Yudell designed a new building anchored by a massive central forum to bring the campus together.
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Student Wellness Drives the Design of a New Community College
High-growth jobs and student wellbeing are the focus of the Perkins&Will–designed Collin College Technical Campus.