Viewpoints
How Are Architects and Designers Navigating AI?
Leading practitioners discuss how AI is changing their practices—and evolving the future of the industry.
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Unmasking Design for Autism
When designing for neuroinclusion, we must consider intersecting identities and overlapping systems of oppression that shape people’s experiences of disability.
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MIT Future Fest Offered a Hopeful View of What’s Next
The inaugural five-day event brought together visionary leaders across design, technology, and art to address the world’s most pressing problems.
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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Products
How MillerKnoll is Powering the Future of Design
As AI and new ways of working reshape the workplac…
Products
Momentum Partners with Interact Center to Empower Artists with Disabilities
A collaboration with the Minnesota nonprofit bring…
Projects
In Jodhpur, Studio Lotus Builds a Modular Future for Stone
Visitor Center at Mehrangarh Fort, sandstone-and-s…
Projects
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Campus is a Model in Place-Driven Design
Baird architects designed the foundation’s perma…
Projects
UC Berkeley’s Newest Building Is All About Human Interactions
The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway—home to the…
Projects
ZD+A Brings a Modernist Mexico City House in Line with its Context
Architect Yuri Zagoin Alazraki reorganized the spe…
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The Architecture & Design Film Festival Enters a New Chapter
ADFF 2026 brings together stories of reuse, clima…
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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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Sustainability
Projects
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…
Projects
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…
Projects
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…
Projects
Juri Troy Architects Offer a Balanced Approach to Workspace Adaptability
For Windkraft Simonsfeld’s headquarters expansion, Juri Troy Architects combined regional materials, resilient infrastructure, and future adaptability into a…
Profiles
Profiles
The Architect Designing Sacred Spaces for the Every Day
RIBA Gold Medal winner Níall McLaughlin strives to design not just buildings but the rituals that unfold within them.
Profiles
3XN Designs at the Public Edge
From Toronto’s waterfront neighborhoods to Sydney’s iconic harbor, the Danish firm shows how architecture can balance private development, civic access, and environmental stewardship.
Profiles
Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston
The cultural building and community center reinterprets Islamic design philosophy through geometry, climate-responsive design, and generous civic spaces.
Projects
Projects
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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Projects
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 planet.
Projects
How a Hybrid Building Helped an Historic Manhattan Congregation Remain in Place
On Billionaire’s Row, FX Collaborative designed a new home for Calvary Baptist Church combined with an office tower.
Projects
The Brumadinho Memorial Is an Exercise in Memory and Materiality
Designed by Gustavo Penna Arquitetos Associados, the memorial was built to honor the 272 victims of the collapse of Brazil’s Mina Córrego do Feijão tailings dam.
