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Rediscovering Tile for Sustainable Design
AHF’s Noah Chitty explains how advanced manufacturing and recycling innovation are helping this age-old material meet the demands of sustainable design today.
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Fractals: Nature’s Healing Patterns in Design
Dr. Richard Taylor, Anastasija and Martin Lesjak share how bringing nature’s complexity into the built environment reduces stress and supports well-being.
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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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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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Lighter, Smarter, Stronger Metals
From carbon-cutting aluminum to ultralight metal foams, emerging innovations are unlocking metals’ potential for high performance design.
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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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Profiles
Inside Three SoCal Design Workshops Where Craft and Sustainability Meet
With a vertically integrated approach, RAD furniture, Cerno, and Emblem are making design more durable, adaptable, and resource conscious.
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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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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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Ken De Cooman Is a New Kind of Architect
BC Architects challenge conventional architecture practice by using local materials and a collaborative approach to reshape the industry.
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Products
Material Bank Streamlines Specification with New Digital Catalog Program
A new solution from Material Bank makes it easier than ever for architects and designers to integrate product selection into their project workflow.
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Can AI Save Us From Designing Ourselves to Extinction?
Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson of Cove talk climate action, cost optimization, and why technology is our best hope for sustainable building.
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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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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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The Super Dense Commercial Building: A Circularity Prototype
Developed during the METROPOLIS Circular Future Hackathon, this prototype reimagines commercial building ownership and leasing for denser use, responsible renovation, and healthier communities.
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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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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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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.