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Viewpoints
Sustainability News Updates for Q4 2025
A year of policy ups and downs in the United States has created a fragmented regulatory landscape for the building industry to navigate.
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Viewpoints
Rooted in Place: Exploring North American Design
METROPOLIS's Summer 2025 issue explores how American architects, designers, and makers are reshaping the built environment.
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Products
5 Solutions for Smarter Building
Explore products that improve durability, energy efficiency, and design for today’s architecture projects.
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Profiles
The Blackwell Philosophy Turns Sites into Statements
Synthesizing regional conventions with a myriad of other ideas, Marlon and Meryati Johari Blackwell create remarkable spaces and places.
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Products
6 Products that Raise the Standard of Wood’s Performance
Discover how designers and manufacturers are enhancing wood's durability and performance while maintaining its charm.
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Projects
In Chile, Monolithic Garden Follies Conceal a Group of Wellness Pavilions
The three interconnected buildings feature a unique glass interior and custom brick skin.
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3 Invisible Technologies Transforming Glass
New glass technologies from leading manufacturers are enhancing energy performance, safety, and comfort without compromising aesthetics.
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Profiles
For Kelly Dix Van, Everyday Architecture Matters
The SCI-Arc architecture graduate explores the complexities of self-building practices and material reuse in Cartagena, Colombia.
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Projects
How Architectural Sculpture in the U.S. Reimagines Public Space
From a mirrored canopy in Georgia to a 3D-printed adobe pavilion in the desert, these projects fuse design, engineering, and narrative.
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Projects
Yeonhan Architects Creates a Tranquil Postpartum Care Center in Seoul
The architects envisioned the center as a “vertical village” that now provides a welcoming, restful environment to mothers and newborns.
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Products
Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing
Architects today are thinking beyond the curtain wall, using glass to deliver high energy performance and better comfort in a variety of buildings.
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Profiles
BLDUS Brings a ‘Farm-to-Shelter’ Approach to American Design
The Washington D.C.–based firm BLDUS is imagining a new American vernacular through natural materials and thoughtful placemaking.
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Projects
KPF Reimagines the Arch in a Quietly Bold New York Facade
The repetition of deceptively simple window bays on a Greenwich Village building conceals the deep attention to innovation, craft, and context.
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Products
Rice University’s New Architecture Hall Revives Terra-Cotta Tradition
Swiss firm Karamuk Kuo’s first U.S. project merges craft and performance with a custom ceramic rainscreen facade.
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Profiles
Studio ThusThat Gives Industrial By-products a Second Life
The Amsterdam-based designers create furniture and objects that explore industrial production and waste narratives.
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Profiles
How Barbara Buser Sparked a Reuse Revolution
After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim building components, the Swiss architect is changing the rules of construction in Basel.
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Products
How to Specify Stone Sustainably
Essential considerations and resources for selecting stone that meets environmental standards without compromising design.
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Viewpoints
METROPOLIS Celebrates Earth Day 2025
At METROPOLIS, we believe that buildings can be designed in ways that support both people and the planet—Earth Day and every day.
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Profiles
Ronald Rael’s Solution to the Housing Crisis? Muddy Robots
The Berkeley, California–based architect’s new venture blends ancestral and artificial intelligence to create 3D-printed houses out of earth.
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Products
7 Products for Better Building from IBS 2025
The NAHB International Builders’ Show include behind-the-wall systems, HVAC, electrical, structural elements, and siding from this year's show.