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Speculative Design
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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
Martin Rodriguez Jr. Brings Queer Joy to Taubman College
The University of Michigan M.Arch student’s digital work imagines the future through whimsical, candy-coated worlds.
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Next-Generation Designers Redefine Materials Beyond Convention
Three Future100 students are reshaping how materials interact with nature, climate, and history through innovative fabrication techniques.
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Alexandra Croft’s Seapunk Design Rethinks Waste and Water
Blurring the lines between land and sea, the RISD student explores waste systems through a sensorial, nonlinear, & ecologically attuned design practice.
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Future100: Lené Fourie Creates Adaptable Interiors
The University of Houston undergraduate student is inspired by modular design that empowers users to shape their own environments.
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How TAKK Is Rethinking the Template for Architecture
For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño of Barcelona-based studio TAKK, every commission is a chance to question the norm.
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Profiles
How Can We Take Adaptive Reuse to the Next Level?
While mainstream architectural practices leverage existing building stock, these students imagine much more radical approach for adaptive reuse
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Kathryn Webb Designs for Social Impact
The work of this University of Tennessee graduate and Future100 honoree reflects a passion for people.
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Meixi Xu Believes that Design Should Enhance One’s Quality of Life
The former School of Visual Arts interior design student pays attention to what a space may intuitively lack in community or belonging.
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Profiles
Axel Olson Leans Into the Conceptual Side of Architecture
Breaking barriers and crossing disciplines comes naturally for this University of Michigan master's candidate and METROPOLIS Future100 honoree.
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Viewpoints
Could Humans & Plants Co-Create the Post-Industrial Cities of the Future?
"Geomerce" proposes a future where plants naturally de-contaminate and reconfigure our post-industrial town- and landscapes.
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Vitra’s Raphael Gielgen Predicts Our Workplace Future
In conversation with our editors, Raphael Gielgen, head of research and trend scouting at Vitra, discusses how identity and technology will shape the offices of tomorrow.
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A Flying Drone Hotel, and Other Visions for the (Near) Future of Hotel Design
At the 10th annual Radical Innovation Awards, two worthy finalists presented their visions for the hotel of the future—including an idea for a flying drone hotel.
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The London Design Biennale’s Utopian Dreams Land With a Thud
The inaugural biennial taps into a long legacy of utopian design, but fails to add anything to this tradition.
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Events
After Venice and Chicago, Oslo’s Carefully Curated Triennale Stands Out
The sixth edition of the Oslo Architecture Triennale addresses themes of belonging in a world where dislocation and alienation are the standard.
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30 Architects Reenvision Manhattan in a Post-Sharing World
Storefront for Art & Architecture has placed 30 fantastic drawings—from Tatiana Bilbao, SO-IL, TEN Arquitectos and more—up for online auction.
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Projects
An Imaginary, Abandoned (And Filthy) Saint-Firminy
Brussels-based artist Xavier Delory has completed the last in his series of fanciful visualizations: "Pilgrimage Along Modernity."
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Viewpoints
Object Lessons From the Failed Utopias of Our Radical Past
A new book treats the architectural failures of a radical past as a learning opportunity for an apathetic present.
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Viewpoints
Top Designers Invent Uniforms for Imaginary Jobs
Famed designers, from Angela Missoni to Vivienne Westwood, playfully reimagine the workwear of today and tomorrow.
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Projects
A Roof for Everyone: Speculative Designs for the Future of Affordable Housing
The Center for Architecture's "Designing Affordability" opens many more areas for engagement between architecture and activism.