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Sustainability
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7 Earth-Based Solutions for Building Closer to Nature
These solutions are either made entirely from recycled materials or are fully recyclable.
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Viewpoints
Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes
As part of their Alternative Practices project, Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy spotlight firms that are turning traditional Western design thinking on its head.
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Viewpoints
How Construction Materials and Technologies Are Evolving
Follow METROPOLIS’s most compelling coverage of construction materials and technologies, from next-gen concrete to circular design.
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Viewpoints
METROPOLIS Natural Habitat Video Wins a 2024 Eddie Award
The winning video features a tranquil upstate New York retreat designed with Passive House principles.
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Viewpoints
How to Specify for a Happier World
METROPOLIS's 2024 Products Issue proves that a materials renaissance is under way—and it's great for people and the planet.
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Projects
Meet the Designers Building With Earth
Three international architecture practices are responding to local climate conditions through rammed earth and compressed earth bricks
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Eight Building Products to Help You Push the Envelope
These solutions for walls, openings, and cladding are each best-in-class in some way—offering environmental benefits, aesthetic choices, and design possibilities like never before.
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Viewpoints
3 Sustainability News Updates for Q3 2024
Policy initiatives are gathering momentum as the federal government and building sector organizations align their expertise under the umbrella of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Products
How the Furniture Industry is Stepping Up on Circularity
Responding to new studies on the environmental impact of furniture, manufacturers, dealers, and start-ups are accelerating their carbon and circularity initiatives.
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Projects
McDonald’s Reimagines its Interiors through Radical Circular Design
A pilot program launching in McDonald’s France and Belgium aims to create sustainable interior renovations for the global fast-food brand
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Viewpoints
Discover the Climate Toolkit’s Latest Updates for Interior Designers
The Climate Toolkit for Interior Design has been re-organized to reflect the different stages of projects, and the information needed for each.
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Products
These Biobased Products Point to a Regenerative Future
Discover seven products that represent a new wave of bio-derived offerings for interior design and architecture.
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Viewpoints
ThinkLab Shares Insights on the Dynamics of Sustainability in Decision-Making
ThinkLab helps us understand how the realities of product selection can maximize designers’ influence and impact.
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Projects
In Mexico, a Coworking Space Captures a Community’s Creative Spirit
Santa Tere Espacio, a colorful adaptive reuse project in San Miguel de Allende, is a collaboration between Oficina de Diseño Colaborativo, Maye Colab, and Atelier TBD.
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Products
5 Technologies for Material Lovers
Discover the advancements that are helping us appreciate the beauty, capabilities, and sustainability of all elements of the built environment.
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Products
8 Products Shifting the Recyclability Paradigm
These solutions are either made entirely from recycled materials or are fully recyclable.
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Viewpoints
A New Film Calls Designers to Mimic Nature
Biocentrics, a new documentary by directors Ataliba Benaim and Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo, challenges designers to go back to the basic innovations of the natural world.
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Viewpoints
How Firms Are Putting Sustainability Into Practice
New ThinkLab research reveals the path to a more sustainable future is not just possible but is already under way—one space at a time.
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Viewpoints
How Far Has 3D-Printed Architecture Come?
METROPOLIS tracks the development of 3D-printed buildings, and how they promises to revolutionize speed and sustainability in construction.
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Products
4 Exciting New Possibilities for Concrete
The next generation of carbon-neutral and recycled concrete products is bringing foundational change to the world’s most common building material.