RE x SUGAR Bakery Shop Serves up Japanese Treats and a Minimalist Design
In bustling Nanjing, China, ONDO Studio creates a serene retail space that combines clean lines and natural materials.
Architecture
A New Book Points to Unconventional Ways that Architecture Shapes Society
Radical Architecture of the Future by Beatrice Galilee highlights more than 75 projects that spur social and political change.
A Danish Hospital Gets a Light-Filled Addition
Replete with light and art, the North Wing of the Rigshospitalet medical complex offers a vision for the future of health care.
Students Want You to Watch Your Words, Even After Black History Month Ends
Noticing ways the practice perpetuates racism, University of Syracuse students drafted a glossary of racist architectural language.
Michael Green Architecture Designs a Mass-Timber Research Complex
The Oregon Forest Science Complex is a proving ground for mass timber’s sustainable, seismic, and even psychological benefits.
KANVA Completes an Airy Redesign of Montreal’s Biodome
Building systems complement ecosystems in an airy, energy-efficient transformation that balances the needs of visitors and animals.
Memorials Are for the Living
Eddie Blake and Gian Luca Amadei question how architecture can help us contemplate loss and memory in the age of COVID-19.
NBBJ’s Nanjing Technology Park Offers a Glimpse of China’s Green Future
The nine-building Xin Wei Yi Technology Park, draws from local inspiration for passive cooling, daylighting, and greenspace.
Colorful Windows and Broad Balconies Define Casa Celestina
The Cabo Verdean apartment building designed by Ramos Castellano Architects is an airy home base for visitors to the islands.
Metropolis Gift Guide 2020: Read
This holiday season, Metropolis’s editors are highlighting our picks for the best design-minded gifts.
Lime Continues to Find Applications in Architecture
From the Roman Pantheon to contemporary homes and low-carbon concrete, lime offers brightness and durability.
An Exhibition Surveying the Work of Anupama Kundoo Takes Time as Its Subject
Opening in October at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Taking Time highlights the architect’s building techniques, inspirations, and social aspirations.
Wheeler Kearns Architects Designs a Home for This Chicago Nonprofit
The Night Ministry, a Chicago housing and outreach nonprofit, needed space that could accommodate guests and clients, in addition to its 50 staff and volunteers.
How Atelier Office Is Upending the Architectural Paradigm
Amina Blacksher and V. Mitch McEwen’s new venture points to a fresh model of design practice.
An Online Exhibition Connects the Dots Between Performance and Architecture
Six months after the release of the namesake book during the latest installment of the biennial, PERFORMA has launched Bodybuilding, which features thirty-five architecture studios who engage with performativity.
Rogers Partners Builds a Boys & Girls Club for the Modern Age
Pinkerton Clubhouse was designed as a "vertical playscape" and has become a bright anchor for the North Harlem neighborhood.
Can Generative Design Save Brick-and-Mortar Retail?
Using new technology from Autodesk, Dutch firm Stamhuis designs retail stores that maximize each shelf, hoping to stave off e-commerce competition.
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.
Mabel O. Wilson is Updating the Narrative of American Architecture to Include Black Architects
A new book, an upcoming MoMA exhibition, and a recently completed memorial are informed by the Columbia University professor's unflinching critique of traditional architectural pedagogy.
A Progressive Addition Distinguishes a Toronto Synagogue Built in the '30s
Diamond Schmitt Architects designed a contemporary update for the storied Holy Blossom Temple.
