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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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Profiles
Dolores Hayden on the Politics of Care
Following her recent Vincent Scully Prize win, the architect and urban historian spoke with Metropolis about the infrastructure of care, material feminists, and aviation poetry.
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Profiles
A New Model for Equitably Shared Solar Energy Emerges in New York
Working at the intersection of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice, UPROSE develops campaigns and initiatives rooted in participatory community planning in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
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Projects
Three New and Refreshed Museums Mark Valencia’s Status as World Design Capital
While the city's design scene enjoys its moment in the sun, the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Bombas Gens, and CaixaForum aim to cement Valencia as a cultural destination.
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Profiles
Reality Keeps Catching Up with N.K. Jemisin
The science fiction author talks with Metropolis about the role a changing urban landscape plays in her work.
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Projects
How Midsize Cities Are Driving America’s Urban Transformation
Explore how American cities with populations under 1 million are reimagining themselves with bold projects and policies, and driving urban transformation and innovation.
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Viewpoints
The Dark Side of Rick Caruso’s Fantasy Worlds
The developer, now a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, has created beloved developments that often substitute for missing public spaces. But at heart they are anything but civic.
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Viewpoints
Surveying 100 Years of the Regional Plan Association
An exhibition takes a clear-eyed look at the Regional Plan Association's achievements and shortcomings, always with a focus on the future.
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Viewpoints
The Oslo Architecture Triennale Champions the Social Dimensions of Design
The Triennale’s eighth edition takes a hyper-local approach to neighborhoods that resonates in an increasingly virtual world.
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Viewpoints
Spotting the Rising Design Stars (and Their Creations) at Singapore Design Week 2022
The ten day celebration of Southeast Asian design showcased brave experiment, clever sustainability, and vibrant surprise in furniture, fashion, textiles, and more.
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Projects
These D.C. Art Installations Point to More Than High Water Marks
Depicting a 500-year flood line nine feet in the air, the latest sculpture educates on rising waters in one of the area’s lowest lying spots.
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Viewpoints
Can Local Architecture Help Cure the Ills of Globalism?
As we reckon with the failures and homogeneity of global architecture, it's time to explore an approach better suited to place, and to a new age.
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Profiles
Jeremiah Moss Reflects on how Lockdown Brought a Temporary Sense of Freedom to New York City
The author's new memoir explores the weirder, wilder, and more interesting city that reappeared during the pandemic.
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Profiles
Net Zero 2022 Makes the Case for Expanding the Green Movement
The conference's ninth edition showcased the latest thinking in sustainability, but also aimed to broaden its scope beyond the built world.
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Viewpoints
Paved With Good Intentions: We Still Can’t Kick the Car Habit
Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.
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Viewpoints
Memory on Every Corner: L.A.’s First Street Corridor
While Boulevards like Hollywood, Sunset, and Wilshire get more attention, Los Angeles' First Street contains an incredible—and dizzyingly complex—history.
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Projects
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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Viewpoints
SCHOOLED: What is Infrastructure?
In the wake of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the term keeps expanding to describe an evolving network of systems everyone needs.
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Profiles
Bridging the Divide Between the Possible and the Impossible
Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.'s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and myriad lessons.
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Viewpoints
Following Years of Revitalization, Detroit Still Has a Long Way to Go
Metropolis brought together local policy makers, designers, developers, and activists to discuss the city's uncertain present and contested future.