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Commonplace Is Making the Case for High-Design Prefab
In Vancouver, McKinley Studios is testing a modular construction system that cuts building time from months to weeks without sacrificing architectural ambition.
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Haworth’s 4Space Rooms Promise to Transform Office Renovations
The inventive new system makes it easy for designers and their clients to put rooms in, move them around, and take them out.
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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…
Awards
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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What Do Architects Need to Know About Data Centers?
With AI reshaping the scale, technology, and energ…
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Designtex Celebrates the Beauty of Nature’s Details
Building on its portfolio of biophilic offerings, …
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5 Spanish Furniture Brands Prioritizing Play and Personality
At Feria Hábitat València 2026, these designers …
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7 Takeaways from Sustainability Leaders at Greenbuild 2026
At the METROPOLIS Sustainability Leadership Summit…
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6 Material Trends Shaping Interior Design
From playful plaids and painterly botanicals to sc…
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Are Data Centers the Biggest Design Problem of This Era?
AI is driving a data center boom. Can architects r…
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UC San Diego Transforms a Facade into a Dynamic Display for Digital Art
With the help of Studio E Architects, The Mandevil…
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A Whole-Systems Approach to Design for Autism
This new ASD Design Matrix can help designers appl…
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We Need a New Approach to Designing for Autism
Architects and designers need to update their strategies for neuroinclusive design. Recent research points the way forward.
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Report: METROPOLIS Weighs in on Sustainable Design in the U.S.
The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 captures the state of green building today and what comes next.
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Inside PCA-STREAM’s Unconventional Concert Hall
At La Source Vive, a challenging oval geometry becomes the foundation for an intimate performance space where architecture and acoustics work in…
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In India, Prestige University Offers Lessons in Climate Craft
The IGBC Platinum–rated education project is part of Sanjay Puri Architects’ quest for creative—and delightful—responses to a warming…
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Student Housing That’s Resilient by Design
A bioclimatic university project in Dakar weathered ten years of change by staying flexible—and, in doing so, made a case for building African architecture…
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In Tulum, V Taller Inverts the Symbolism of the Tower of Babel
Mexican architects V Taller reconcile housing for tourists and long-term residents with urban chaos at the edge of the rapidly developing Mayan…
Profiles
Profiles
Young Projects Designs for the Unknown
The Brooklyn studio experiments with materials, fabrication, and form to create architecture that puts discovery at the forefront.
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Yu Nong Khew Uses AI to Question Her Humanity
The Wesleyan University professor recently launched Studio Soft Hairy, a design practice that balances digital fabrication, craft, and microbiology.
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Common Object Studio Is Humanizing Concrete
Designed in collaboration with concrete manufacturer Mangrove, the studio’s Un Nido seating collection uses a leading-edge, low-waste additive process.
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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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The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Campus is a Model in Place-Driven Design
Baird architects designed the foundation’s permanent home for an artist residency program on Maine’s Midcoast.
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UC Berkeley’s Newest Building Is All About Human Interactions
The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway—home to the university’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society—gently reminds data scientists and AI researchers of what’s really important.
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ZD+A Brings a Modernist Mexico City House in Line with its Context
Architect Yuri Zagoin Alazraki reorganized the speculative house to respond to its site and create unique spaces for contemplation.
