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Join us every second Tuesday of the month for a dose of optimism with thought-provoking guests who are revolutionizing their fields. Innovators will lead virtual workshops for an hour of discovery, inspiration, and community. Led by editor in chief, Avinash Rajagopal, these workshops will be guided by our audience, where questions are not only welcome but encouraged.

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METROPOLIS Introduces Natural Habitat, a Sustainable Homes Video Series

The series debuts with a tour of a tranquil upstate New York retreat designed with Passive House principles.

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3 AI Architecture Tools Rethinking Workflows

From consolidating AI models to rethinking BIM and automating drawing-to-model conversion, tools like xFigura, Motif, and QikBIM target different points in architecture’s increasingly fragmented digital workflow. The g

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    achimwi: Wolf Gordon Works with Lenape Artists

    In collaboration with the Lenape Center and four Indigenous artists, Wolf-Gordon’s fourth Curatorial Project creates wallcoverings that explore cultural memory and the continuity of Indigenous identity

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    What Do Architects Need to Know About Data Centers?

    With AI reshaping the scale, technology, and energy demands of data centers, Neil Sheehan of Woolpert discusses what architects need to understand about the design of the infrastructure behind the cloud.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2026 METROPOLIS Planet Positive Awards

METROPOLIS’s Planet Positive Award winners represent excellence in sustainable, healthy, just design at every scale in the built environment.

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In North Dakota, a Regenerative Presidential Library for Theodore Roosevelt

Inspired by Roosevelt’s legacy of conservation, Snøhetta crafts a living building for his Presidential Library.

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