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A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore
Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.
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Google’s Ivy Ross Makes Sense of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with Ivy Ross, Google’s vice president of hardware design, to discuss Making Sense of Color, now on view during Salone del Mobile 2024.
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Visit METROPOLIS’s Sustainability Lab at NeoCon
Visit us at Metropolis’s Sustainability Lab at NeoCon, an exhibit and destination to help you take the next step toward making a positive impact on people and planet.
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What Architects and Designers Need to Know About Embodied Carbon
From complex topics such as carbon form to advice on how to specify carbon-neutral furniture, METROPOLIS provides a lay of the land for carbon and design.
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Design Optimism Talks: Accelerating the Path to Zero
The master architect of the Brussels Capital Regio…
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Four Pieces of Software By Architects, For Architects
These free, open-source technologies were develope…
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Future100 Interior Design Undergraduate Winners
These are the top interior design undergraduate st…
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Future100 Architecture Undergraduate Winners
These are the top interior design undergraduate st…
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Future100 Interior Design Graduate Winners
These are the top interior design undergraduate st…
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MoMA Misses the Roots of American Environmentalism
A historical survey of eco-conscious Modernism at MoMA underrepresents both the origins of sustainable architecture and the contemporary dilemmas of architectural discourse.
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3 Building Industry Takeaways from the UN Climate Change Conference
The built environment was a key focus at COP28, the world’s largest event dedicated to mobilizing against climate change.
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Mae-ling Lokko Designs from the Ground Up
The designer and architectural scientist is rethinking the fabric of the built environment by connecting the dots between agriculture, construction, and social equity.
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Billy Fleming and His Students Are Designing a Green New Deal
In his recent studio course, designer and University of Pennsylvania educator imagines a more just landscape architecture studio…by taking his students to a uranium mine in Greenland.
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Walter Hood: Facing History Through Landscapes
How the celebrated landscape architect proves the power of green space to tell new stories, communicate culture, and confront hard truths
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Bowdoin College Unveils Maine’s First Commercial Mass Timber Project
Discover how the new pair of HGA-designed buildings further the campus’s commitment to carbon neutrality.
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This Brooklyn Multifamily Community Is Sustainable—and Affordable
Passive House mixed-use development Chestnut Commons provides affordable housing to formerly homeless and low-income residents within a self-sustaining neighborhood.
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ASU’s Fusion on First Cut Its Energy Needs—and Costs—by Half
Designed by Studio Ma, the facility proves that higher education buildings can deliver on student experience, urban connectivity, and climate action while keeping the bottom line under control.
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This 120 Year Old Brooklyn Building is now a Powerhouse for the Arts
Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW have transformed the 1904 Central Power Station into a nonprofit arts fabrication facility.
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