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Preservation
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Viewpoints
Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water
Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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Projects
Brutalist Plaza in Minneapolis Gets a “Surgical” Redesign
By considering reuse and accessibility, Coen+Partners’ redesign of Paul Friedberg’s iconic landscape is the kind of historic preservation we need.
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Viewpoints
The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life
On NYC’s 400th birthday, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Weiss/Manfredi, and Marvel talk about civic spaces that shape the city's infrastructure.
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Products
Should Wool Play a Bigger Role in the Built Environment?
As mountains of waste wool pile up around the world, its untapped potential is coming into sharper focus.
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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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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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Profiles
Salima Naji’s Quest to Preserve Culture Through Architecture
Salima Naji’s Quest to Preserve Culture Through Architecture. Across Morocco, the architect and anthropologist is rebuilding ancient buildings so that they may endure for generations to come.
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Viewpoints
How Can We Design Buildings to Heal, Not Harm?
Jason McLennan—regenerative design pioneer and chief sustainability officer at Perkins&Will—on creating buildings that restore, replenish, and revive the natural world.
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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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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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Projects
Study Architects Designs a Water-Saving Desert Retreat in Arizona
The studio’s Tucson home combines Modernist aesthetics with innovative rainwater collection to tackle resource scarcity.
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Profiles
At the Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore Connects Place and Memory
The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place grant-making program is transforming communities through storytelling, conservation, and design.
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Profiles
Format Architecture Office Envisions an Expansive Design Process
Format Architecture Office (FAO) helps clients hone their vision with a focus on the driving forces behind each design decision.
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Profiles
Breland–Harper Mines the Past to Design a Better Future
In less than a decade, Ireland-Harper, the Los Angeles–based studio has completed over 100 adaptive reuse projects.
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Viewpoints
32 Adaptive Reuse Projects for a Better Future
Through decades of coverage, METROPOLIS rounds up the best adaptive reuse stories and projects from around the globe.
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Projects
This New Cultural District is Creating Community on Detroit’s East Side
Little Village, a hub of parks, art galleries, cultural spaces, artist studios, restaurants, and more, is expanding the city’s revitalization beyond downtown.
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Profiles
Meet Seven Superstars of Salvage
Drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems, these groups are championing building-material reuse.
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Projects
3 Adaptive Reuse Projects Prioritize Flexibility for the Future
The bigger challenge in preserving historically significant buildings isn’t in giving them a second life—it’s preparing them for later reincarnations.