Metropolis Magazine

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3 Cinematic Hospitality Spaces That Put Guests Center Stage In a sea of sameness, hospitality designers are curating immersive spaces centered on stylish circulation, authentic storytelling, and polished materiality. On the Vegas Strip, Caramella (Tao Group Hospitality and Fettle Design)—Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino’s newest restaurant—channels 1970s Italy. In Houston, Asian steakhouse Haii Keii (gin design group) blurs the boundaries between imagination and tradition, while in Brooklyn, Unveiled (Studio MBM) delivers an alluring subterranean retreat with amorphous seating and a reflective dance floor. 📝: Lauren Jones 📷: Leonid Furmansky https://lnkd.in/ezQwVDCc

Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water The idea that water is fundamental to life is a truth acknowledged by cultures throughout world history. The Lakota phrase Mní wičhóni, which translates to “Water is life,” became the rallying cry of Indigenous activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. The same idea is central to Western understandings of biological evolution; indeed, the search for extraterrestrial life is, in many ways, a search for water. In spite of water’s life-sustaining power, humans became masters at rendering it invisible over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Creeks were buried, waterfronts walled off. In 1984, a Berkeley landscape architect led an effort to “daylight” a portion of Strawberry Creek, the first documented example of an urban waterway being exhumed. The 40 years since have seen cities gradually reversing course, with billions of dollars invested in daylighting projects and waterfront redevelopment. And yet even decades of daylighting efforts have not obviated the need for artists and architects to help visualize this vast planetary system. Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—and challenging us to live differently with them. 📝: Timothy A. Schuler 📷: Courtesy METABOLIC STUDIO https://lnkd.in/erHcHRPb

Future100 2026 Submissions Are Open Deadline: December 5, 2025 METROPOLIS’s Future100 program celebrates the top graduating architecture and interior design students across the US and Canada, connecting emerging talent with leading firms and A&D professionals. If you are a graduating student, or you know someone who is, now is the time to apply. Submit here: https://hubs.la/Q03T7nzr0

A big moment for Architizer: We're partnering with the iconic Metropolis Magazine on a special 2026 issue! 📖 I've always loved Metropolis, one of architecture's foremost publications and a tremendous champion for the AEC industry as a whole. So you can imagine my excitement at the prospect of collaborating on a special edition of the magazine, dedicated to our A+Awards Winners! That's right: Select A+Awards recipients will see their work featured in this renowned publication, spotlighting the architects who are genuinely forging new paths for design and practice. Focusing on this season's A+Awards theme, "Architecture's New Era of Craft", the stories contained in this issue promise to offer a captivating look at what great architecture looks like today — and where it's heading tomorrow. To get your projects considered for publication in this issue, and a host of other accolades, make sure to enter the 14th A+Awards before the Main Deadline on December 12, 2025. Get started here ➡️ https://arc.ht/45yyMFt A huge thank you to Avinash Rajagopal, Erica Holborn, Bobby Bonett and the whole team at SANDOW for helping to bring our platforms together for this inspiring initiative! #ArchitizerAwards

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The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park in 1857, they weren’t just advocating for public health and urban equity—they were also leveraging a strategic understanding of how green space could drive land value, redevelopment, and, ultimately, displacement. This double legacy continues to shape the city, and architecture plays a part. Today, some of the most prolific architecture studios in the city—Diller Scofidio + Renfro, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, and Marvel—are reimagining the boundaries between buildings, landscape, and civic life, transforming infrastructural remnants and underutilized land into shared assets while navigating complex politics. Projects like the High Line, Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, and Bronx Point Park demonstrate how adaptive reuse, resilience planning, and public-private partnerships are remaking parts of the city’s waterfronts and former industrial zones into new public realms. This work builds on a century of evolving strategies: from 1960s POPS (privately owned public spaces) zoning to Open Streets, schoolyard conversions, and tactical urbanism. Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design strategies at Lincoln Center and Weiss/Manfredi’s approach to resilient public parks design both reflect a desire to make civic spaces more inclusive for residents and financially beneficial to the myriad private and public partnerships that run the city’s public spaces. 📝: Francisco Brown https://lnkd.in/dzKSVkam

Future100 2026 Submissions Are Open Deadline: December 5, 2025 METROPOLIS’s Future100 program celebrates the top graduating architecture and interior design students across the US and Canada, connecting emerging talent with leading firms and A&D professionals. If you are a graduating student, or you know someone who is, now is the time to apply. Submit here: https://hubs.la/Q03T7pN60