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News
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Programs
A New Podcast Explores the Process Behind Iconic Designs
Once Upon a Project, a SANDOW Design Group production, explores the surprises, setbacks, and serendipitous events that play into bringing projects to fruition.
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Profiles
Susumu Shingū, Japanese Artist of Wind-Blown Sculptures, Receives His First New York Exhibition
The Upper East Side’s Ippodo Gallery exhibits the 85-year-old artist’s kinetic sculptures and drawings through December 29.
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Products
10 New Architecture and Design Books to Read this Fall
Metropolis editors select the best fall and winter releases from the top art, architecture, and design publishers.
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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
The National Building Museum Takes a Deeper Look at Social Justice and the Built Environment
Its Intersections series, launched this month, will present nationally recognized Black artists and designers including Mabel O. Wilson, Germane Barnes, and the BlackSpace Collective.
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Products
Material Bank Expands into Architectural Products
Formerly focused on interior finishes, the platform recently acquired Architizer in a bid to attract more architect users.
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Viewpoints
Deep Green Returns for Season 2
The second season of Metropolis’s sustainability-focused podcast kicks off with an episode on the carbon footprint of the metaverse.
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Viewpoints
15 Must-Reads to Help You Prepare for 2022
With insightful analysis, critical perspectives, and in-depth reporting, Metropolis contributors give you the tools you need for the year ahead.
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Viewpoints
Bernard Judge, 1931-2021
Relatively unknown outside of Southern California, the architect championed—and created—radical, technologically-advanced residential concepts that were livable, affordable and sustainable.
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Products
Six Products with Nothing to Hide
Metropolis’s yearlong review of what designers should specify when transparency is a priority.
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Products
With 3D Digitization, Material Bank Aims to Provide Designers with Even Simpler Specification
A partnership between sampling platform Material Bank and Vizoo, a Munich, Germany–based leading digitization company, could be the beginning of the end of the material sample slush pile.
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Profiles
With the Net Zero Conference, Drew Shula Aims to Inspire Radical Transformation
The annual summit is an opportunity to share sustainability breakthroughs and thought leadership as the urgency of the climate crisis deepens.
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Viewpoints
NOMA: What the Next 50 Years Looks Like
A new endowment, the end of tokenism, and licensure for as many BIPOC practitioners as possible are among the National Organization of Minority Architects leadership's long-term goals.
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Programs
NYCxDESIGN Announces a Slate of Activities and Activations for 2021
Virtual and self-guided events dominate the spring lineup, but the nonprofit hopes to begin carefully planned in person programming.
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Projects
Thomas Heatherwick Selected to Design Luxury High Line Condo
The new residential complex, to wrap up in 2020, will feature a bubbly facade of faceted bay windows.
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Projects
President Trump Slams New U.S. Embassy in Late-Night Tweet
The president, after cancelling an upcoming London visit, cast the blame on the cost of the new KieranTimberlake-designed embassy building.
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Projects
Amid California Blaze, the Getty Center Remains Unscathed
As fires rage across the Los Angeles area this week, museum officials confirm the Richard Meier–designed complex is unharmed.
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Programs
2018 AIA Gold Medal Goes to James Stewart Polshek
Polshek will receive the AIA Gold Medal 2018, while Minneapolis-based firm Snow Kreilich Architects received the AIA's Firm Award.
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Viewpoints
Publicity Stunt? “Working-Class Theme Park?” Questions Loom for the V&A’s Three-Story Robin Hood Gardens Fragment
The Victoria & Albert Museum is preserving a three-story chunk of the Peter and Allison Smithson–designed Robin Hood Gardens housing project.
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Projects
Sidewalk Labs Announces New Smart City District For Toronto
“Sidewalk Toronto” will aim to generate "sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity" to more than 800 acres of waterfront.