Avinash Rajagopal

METROPOLIS's Summer 2025 issue explores North American design and how architects, designers, and makers are reshaping the built environment.

Renewable energy growth, carbon benchmarking, and circular design strategies shaping the built environment.

Discover the latest sustainability news to learn how local laws, tools, and global initiatives are keeping the momentum going.

METROPOLIS's Winter 2024 issue highlights how architects and designers are thinking about sustainability today. METROPOLIS's Winter 2024 issue highlights how architects and designers are thinking about sustainability today.

 “Alignment” is the word of the hour in every sector of the building industry, as stakeholders come together to tackle sustainability.

METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.

Policy initiatives are gathering momentum as the federal government and building sector organizations align their expertise under the umbrella of the Inflation Reduction Act.

METROPOLIS's Summer 2024 issue explores the function of buildings and the forces that shape them.

METROPOLIS’s Spring 2024 issue explores new approaches and technologies in architecture and interior design today.

Cooper Lighting Solutions’ Shaper PrentaLux line offers sustainable options in a range of pendant styles, colors, and textures.

These sustainability news updates illustrate vital moves toward standardization and transparency on energy efficiency and social impact.

METROPOLIS’s November/December 2023 explores the critical mass of experimentation with both the materials and methods of architecture and interior design today.

These three pieces of sustainability news and standards for Q1 2024 will have a big impact on the built environment.

The risks of polyvinyl chloride are well known, and the alternatives are getting better. Are we ready to make the PVC pivot?

Design for disassembly, the Philippe Malouin–designed ball-and-socket joint lamp is both functional and sustainable.

METROPOLIS’s July/August 2023 issue looks at the many benefits of circularity in design—including new forms of pleasure and delight.

METROPOLIS’s editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal presents ten takes on the future of circular design. May they inspire you to advocacy.

Metropolis’s May/June 2023 issue looks at the different levels of freedom and agency that workers have in a post-pandemic world.

Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.

City Harvest’s Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights reuse and recycling.