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  Programs

  Metropolis Planet Positive Awards

  Metropolis’s annual Planet Positive Awards are an opportunity to celebrate the progress you are making toward design for a regenerative and equitable future. We have a variety of categories for entries—projects that ar…

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  Projects

  A Passive House Renovation Makes This Historic Townhouse More Livable

  The Passive House certification standard helped Ingui Architecture upgrade the quality of a Brooklyn home, opening the door to a host of other benefits.

Profiles

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  Profiles

  Farshid Moussavi’s Open-ended Architecture Comes to the U.S.

  The London-based architect keeps both her design process and her built projects fluid and ever-changing. The Ismaili Center in Houston will be her first project in the United States.

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  Profiles

  Colombia’s Fundación Organizmo Builds for Planetary Well-being

  The Bogota-based organization was recently awarded a Practice Lab grant from the architecture philanthropy platform re:arc institute.

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  Profiles

  For These Students, New Technologies Unlock Ageless Construction Materials

  Drawing upon references to indigenous knowledge, history, and nature, the next generation of architects and designers is reimagining how we build and what we build with.

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  Projects

  Inside Google’s New York HQ in Historic St. John’s Terminal

  A collaboration with CookFox and Gensler, the innovative adaptive reuse project transformed the 1930s rail station into a high-performance workplace that is designed to evolve. 

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  Is Tokyo’s New Skyscraper a Turning Point in Japan’s Real Estate?

  The new Mori JP Tower at Azabudai Hills in Tokyo was designed as a “modern urban village” in the center of the Japanese capital.

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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.