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In the quest for why design happens in a certain way, Metropolis explores economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological contexts.

07/02/2025

Metropolis Future100: Community and Education.
Each year, METROPOLIS sets out to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada through its Future100 program, this year sponsored by Formica Group, Keilhauer, OFS, and Sherwin-Williams.

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The Next Generation Is Designing With Nature in MindFor centuries, nature has been a form of therapy—whether through the...
07/02/2025

The Next Generation Is Designing With Nature in Mind

For centuries, nature has been a form of therapy—whether through the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) or through Western philosophers prescribing “a walk outside” for holistic rehabilitation. Today, as climate change accelerates, the environment’s critical role in public-facing design is evolving almost as quickly as nature itself. And these three METROPOLIS Future100 honorees—Susanna Greiner, Alborz Nazari, and Kate O'Neil—are looking to the world around them for inspiration.

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We are a proud partner of the 2025 Net Zero Conference! Hosted by Verdical Group at the Los Angeles Convention Center on...
06/30/2025

We are a proud partner of the 2025 Net Zero Conference! Hosted by Verdical Group at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 1, this event will feature global sustainability experts in Climate, Net Zero, ESG, Equity, Carbon, and Resilience. Join us for zero carbon learning opportunities, exciting keynotes, an in-person Expo, and more!

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WAI Architecture Think Tank Approaches Practice as PedagogyBorn out of the disillusionment surrounding the 2008 economic...
06/30/2025

WAI Architecture Think Tank Approaches Practice as Pedagogy

Born out of the disillusionment surrounding the 2008 economic crisis, WAI Architecture Think Tank, currently based at Iowa State University, aims to challenge architecture’s supporting role in serving financial and political interests. That's why for almost two decades, founders Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García have been using architecture as a tool for critique rather than compliance. Through teaching, publishing, and visual storytelling, WAI—and its many subchapters and collectives—creates platforms for radical discourse that confronts colonial histories, systemic racism, and global inequities. Its work, rooted in decolonized thought and collective education, seeks to reimagine architecture as an emancipatory practice—one that engages communities, challenges dominant narratives and builds planetary solidarity.

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🌍 The 2025 Planet Positive Awards are now open! We’re celebrating the best in sustainable, healthy, and equitable design...
06/27/2025

🌍 The 2025 Planet Positive Awards are now open! We’re celebrating the best in sustainable, healthy, and equitable design—across projects, people, and products—with 50+ categories to choose from.

✨ New this year: Submitting is easier than ever.

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Zoha Tasneem Centers Empathy and EcologyParsons School of Design MFA interior design student Zoha Tasneem’s work is driv...
06/26/2025

Zoha Tasneem Centers Empathy and Ecology

Parsons School of Design MFA interior design student Zoha Tasneem’s work is driven by empathy and an emphasis on coexistence with natural systems. Inspired by the dual, changing nature of life at the waterfront, her Amphibian Urban Interiors project reimagines urban interiors for coastal communities threatened by rising sea levels, seeking cyclical, sustainable solutions for both encroaching tides and related food insecurity. “The concept of an amphibian interior emerged from the realization that it’s not just about adapting spaces for humans, but about respecting and integrating marine life throughout the design,” she says.

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Los Angeles-based architect Casey Hughes designed the redwood clad Coldwater Studio residential project in Studio City, ...
06/26/2025

Los Angeles-based architect Casey Hughes designed the redwood clad Coldwater Studio residential project in Studio City, California for a writer seeking a private yet light-filled space. Learn more about the project here: https://hubs.la/Q03klK150
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Behind the Fine Art and Science of GlazingTRANSPARENT AND CLEAR, I GIVE SIGHT TO ALL. IN FRAMES OR IN BUILDINGS, I STAND...
06/25/2025

Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing

TRANSPARENT AND CLEAR, I GIVE SIGHT TO ALL. IN FRAMES OR IN BUILDINGS, I STAND TALL. WHAT AM I? The answer to this riddle is glass. The role of glazing in sustainable and healthy buildings is becoming clearer (pun intended) than ever before. On a basic level, windows provide views and daylight—two simple amenities that can be powerfully transformative for how a building feels to the people in it. But too much transparency can be a problem: Many progressive thinkers in the design community are moving away from the Modernist all-glass curtain walls that, while visually striking, have become beacons of inefficiency.

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Behind the Curtain: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Radical Reimagining of the Museum ArchiveI love everything that’s shroude...
06/24/2025

Behind the Curtain: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Radical Reimagining of the Museum Archive

I love everything that’s shrouded—when I don’t know what is underneath,” says architect Liz Diller, when asked about her favorite objects at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Storehouse in east London, designed by her firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The 172-year-old Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) holds almost 2.8 million objects, yet only 3 percent are ever displayed—a reminder that museums are often repositories first, galleries second. Can this change? This institution attempts to answer that question by making the enjoyment of collections today as crucial as their preservation for the future. “These two things shouldn’t be mutually exclusive,” Diller says.

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Future100: Lené Fourie Creates Adaptable InteriorsDuring her time at the University of Houston aspiring interior archite...
06/23/2025

Future100: Lené Fourie Creates Adaptable Interiors

During her time at the University of Houston aspiring interior architect Lené Fourie focused on material reuse and developing mutable design concepts for underutilized spaces. Her Inside Outside Adaptable Furniture designs, for example, take into account ever-changing user needs. Inspired by how designer Ken Isaacs’s Fun House challenges traditional spatial boundaries, Fourie’s design incorporates flexible, modular pieces that can be easily rearranged to promote collaboration and privacy. The goal is to empower users to shape their environments interchangeably—for work, relaxation, or creative engagement.

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Storm King Takes the Parking out of Sculpture ParkSpanning 500 acres, Storm King Art Center is the monarch of American s...
06/20/2025

Storm King Takes the Parking out of Sculpture Park

Spanning 500 acres, Storm King Art Center is the monarch of American sculpture parks. Its works by single artists alone would burst the lawns of most competitors. It collected this all rather gradually, engaging in a fair amount of massaging of nature but never a capital plan. Until now.

This revamp by a team of architects, designers, and landscape architects has provided new welcome pavilions, a maintenance facility, and a fundamental reorientation of the grounds that provide a proper sequence of arrival to a site that previously lacked one. heneghan peng architects and WXY designed the new visitor welcome pavilions and a conservation, fabrication, and maintenance facility, while Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture and Gustafson Porter + Bowman refreshed the landscapes—but it was collaborative thinking that brought about the harmonious result.

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Launching 6/24, the new Renew chair from Room & Board is made from 99% bio-based materials for a uniquely sustainable de...
06/19/2025

Launching 6/24, the new Renew chair from Room & Board is made from 99% bio-based materials for a uniquely sustainable design. The reclaimed urban wood frame hugs comfortable latex cushioning with refined lines for enduring appeal.

See more about Renew here: https://hubs.la/Q03qszZC0

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