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How a Fresh Materials Mindset Can Transform Your Projects
METROPOLIS’s Products 2025 issue explores inspired material alternatives that prevent harm, do good, and expand what’s possible in design.
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Products
Vitra Launches Two New Collections by the Bouroullec Brothers
The Mynt chair and Courier desk, although designed independently, speak to both brothers’ minimalist approach to functional workplaces.
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How Humanscale Is Navigating the Rocky Shoals of Sustainability
By rethinking product ownership, repair, and take-back, the furniture manufacturer hopes to push circularity forward.
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Products
3 Companies Giving Office Furniture a New Life
Through thoughtful material usage, supply-chain logistics, and incentive programs, these leading manufacturers tackle their waste, giving used pieces a sustainable new chapter.
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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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Profiles
Can Rarify Revolutionize the Design Industry?
The e-commerce platform rooted in history, innovation, and sustainability is reframing the future of the furniture market.
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Products
3 European Brands Redefining Waste Materials Reuse
FRONT Materials, a:gain, and Aectual are all transforming waste—from coffee cups to demolition debris—into beautiful, usable building materials.
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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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Viewpoints
Why Words Matter: The Future of Regenerative Design
As the design world embraces the language of regeneration, we must be clear about what the term means—and what’s at stake when it’s misused.
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Meet the Changemakers Shaping Tomorrow’s Buildings
METROPOLIS's 2025 Spring Issue spotlights designers and architects going the extra mile, redefining what it means to design for climate, community, and lasting impact.
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Projects
A Sustainable Expansion Revitalizes a Century-Old Quebec Retreat
In its extension to a family’s country residence, Pelletier de Fontenay sought to cohere parts and climate-sensitive approaches, old and new.
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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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Projects
Studio De Zwarte Hond Reimagines Dutch University with Circular Renovation
The Herta Mohr building showcases how resourceful reuse can transform a legacy structure into a sustainability paradigm.
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Viewpoints
The Salvage Manifesto: Harness the Power of Material Reuse
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this manifesto explores the urgent need to invest in building material salvage to combat waste and environmental degradation.
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Viewpoints
Dream Jobs for a Circular Built Environment
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.
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The Circular Buildings Podcast
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.
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A Circularity Score for Architecture and Interior Design Projects
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this assessment system guides teams in evaluating progress toward circularity in the built environment.
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Viewpoints
A System for Circularity in Steel
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this system envisions collaborative pathways for reusing steel and lightening the built environment's carbon footprint.
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Viewpoints
Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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Usability Assessment for Products and Materials
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this tool evaluates reuse and recycling potential, empowering sustainable decision-making in the specification process.