Tools and Resources from the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability Symposium
The Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability Symposium yielded deep conversations and plenty of insight into deepening the practice of sustainable design.
Sustainability
Low Cost, High Impact: The Drawdown Review Suggests That Architects Move Toward Scalable Climate Solutions
Climate change expert Jesse M. Keenan analyzes the The Drawdown Review's recommendations for architects and designers.
Formafantasma Seeks to Redefine What Ecology Means in Today’s Complex Design World
Through exhibitions and an upcoming master’s program, the Amsterdam-based duo is trailblazing a more dynamic approach to sustainability.
Announcing Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability 2020
Metropolis’s bi-annual sustainability symposium returns in a virtual format, providing access to free, in-depth webinars.
Erin Moore’s Pipeline Portals Are a Spatial Response to Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Occupying lands threatened by the contested Pacific Connector Pipeline, the trio of thatched pavilions subvert the “human supremacy of shelter.”
Are Our COVID-19 Responses Missing the Big Picture?
We must keep the climate costs of our post-COVID workplaces in mind as we plan for a new normal, writes Gensler’s director of sustainable design practice.
Can Quarantine Propel Us Toward Planetary Sanctuary?
Critic Mimi Zeiger reflects on refugia and the regenerative potential of crisis.
SmithGroup's Sacramento Office for a Construction Pro Showcases the Client's Expertise
While adapting two buildings as one new Sacramento workplace for DPR Construction, the architects created a showcase of the builder's best practices.
Announcing the Metropolis Sustainability Lab
The Lab is a place to learn more about sustainable design and specification, and connect with key experts and manufacturers.
How Can Designers Specify for the Environment in a Disposable Era?
Amanda Schneider, president of ThinkLab, offers research-backed insights on the challenges and opportunities designers are facing.
This Sustainable Office Does More with Less
Without touching the building's envelope or MEP, LPA has designed a workplace that consumes 70 percent less energy than comparable structures.
Architect Richard Parr Adapts a 19th Century Farm as a Sprawling Home Office
His UK-based firm has converted a cluster of agricultural outbuildings in the English countryside into a series of imaginative workspaces.
Can Indigenous Technology Point the Way to a More Sustainable Future?
A new book proposes that traditional ecological knowledge could provide a model for sustainable and resilient infrastructures.
At the Planned Danish Olympic Pavilion, Chairs Form the Architecture
Sustainable construction specialists Lendager Group have created a modular, demountable structure for the Tokyo games.
In Small Town Appalachia, Researchers Find an "Evolution Towards Resilience"
Columbia University students found consensus around the post-carbon economy and riverfront rehabilitation among Appalachian locals.
How Hacker Architects Put a Middle School on the Path to Net Zero
The Gilkey International Middle School in Portland, Oregon, makes the most of its forest site, harnessing natural light, fresh air, and biophilia.
Mass Timber Building Puts Spokane, Washington on the Map as a Leader in Carbon-Neutral Building
The project uses cross-laminated timber to build one of the nation’s largest buildings to contain zero embodied carbon emissions, validated by a recent LCA study.
Rethinking Design and Wellness During COVID-19
Catch up on last week's Metropolis Forums Webinar, "Doubling Down on Wellness," with insights on public health, social health, wellbeing, and sustainability.
Talk, Listen, Read: 3 Ways to Mark Earth Day 2020 with Metropolis
For Earth Day in a time of social distancing, Metropolis offers some opportunities for the A&D community to engage, educate, and be inspired.
Is it Time to Redesign Earth Day?
Remembered for sparking federal environmental protection programs, the event was gradually co-opted by the very interests it was meant to oppose. In its 50th year, can we reimagine Earth Day?
