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Infrastructure
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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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Projects
Mission Rock: San Francisco’s Waterfront Future
A Bold Vision Brings Resilient Parks, Affordable Housing, and Iconic Architecture to a Former Industrial Site.
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Projects
Behind the Latest Megaproject to Rise Along Atlanta’s Beltline
Transforming an industrial wasteland into a vibrant mixed-use development, Fourth Ward is an ambitious addition to the city's rapidly developing network of trails.
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Projects
A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore
Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.
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Viewpoints
Behind the Evolution of L.A.’s Mobility Landscape
Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles (Rizzoli Electa, 2023)
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Milwaukee’s WaterMarks Initiative Builds a Community Connection to Water
New York-based environmental artist Mary Miss, conceived of WaterMarks: An Atlas of Water for the City of Milwaukee to help tell the city's water story.
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Projects
Sasaki Turns a Disused Rail Yard Into Lovely Bonnet Springs Park
In Lakeland, Florida, Sasaki transforms a heavily polluted train depot into an elegant yet hardworking green space.
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Profiles
Meet the Urban Planners Reshaping Resilience in Mexico
ORU’s resilient urbanism transforms chain-link and concrete blocks into cultural infrastructure.
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Projects
Inside Amsterdam’s Underwater Bike Parking Garage
Designed by VenhoevenCS, a new underwater bike parking facility has opened in Amsterdam Centraal Station, making space for over 4,000 bikes at the multimodal transportation hub.
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Viewpoints
Does Parking Explain the American City?
In a new book, journalist Henry Grabar explains how parking, more than any other force or need, shaped the fabric of American cities and suburbs.
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Projects
In Colombia, a Highway Operations Center That Does So Much More
Along a rural stretch of Colombia’s national highway system, architect Giancarlo Mazzanti designed a community center that’s integrated into an infrastructure hub.
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Viewpoints
Confronting Carbon Form, Embodied Carbon’s Complex Cousin
A recent exhibition at Cooper Union put forward a cogent definition of Carbon Form, our infrastructure’s deep indebtedness to extractive modes of production.
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Projects
Grand Junction Is the Rust Belt’s First Climate-Resilient Park
In Westfield, Indiana, a consortium of architects, landscape architects, and designers join together to transform a creek from a flood risk into a community jewel.
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Viewpoints
How Architects Can Design for Systems Change
The November/December issue of Metropolis looks at the architects and designers challenging the notion of a barrier between "natural" and "built" environments.
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Viewpoints
How the New Era in Solar Energy Is Reshaping Design
Investment in solar power is a principal component of the United States' decarbonization strategy. Architects, designers, and manufacturers are already taking heed.
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Viewpoints
15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023
These must-read articles will give you all the inspiration and motivation you need to start the new year right.
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Profiles
Dolores Hayden on the Politics of Care
Following her recent Vincent Scully Prize win, the architect and urban historian spoke with Metropolis about the infrastructure of care, material feminists, and aviation poetry.
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Profiles
A New Model for Equitably Shared Solar Energy Emerges in New York
Working at the intersection of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice, UPROSE develops campaigns and initiatives rooted in participatory community planning in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
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Projects
In Germany, a Cradle-to-Cradle Firehouse Proves the Power of Mass Timber
Wulf Architekten designed the timber and concrete components of the Straubenhardt firehouse to be disassembled and reuse.
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Viewpoints
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s Spatializing Justice Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium
In their latest book, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman propose a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.