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A City Council committee's approval of a proposed rezoning of Midtown East represents a big win for the de Blasio Administration. The Bloomberg Administration fell short in an efforts to upzone the neighborhood in 2013.
When the late afternoon sun hits the façade of Tzannes’ newest mixed use residential and commercial building on the western perimeter of central Sydney, Australia, its more than 1150 anodized aluminum mesh shutters glow pure gold, softly filtering the light into the apartments be…
President Trump told Wall Street Journal reporters earlier this week that Upstate New York isn't working, and residents should follow manufacturing jobs to other parts of the country.
New office building located near the business district of Bangkok. Gooseberry Design Co., Ltd. was focusing on maximize building space in the limited land area to serve the minimum requirement for at least 40 users.
The latest in a series of new pedestrian crossings at the Mexico-U.S. border between San Ysidro and El Chaparral opens on July 31.
The city of Berkeley has a radical idea for how to build more transitional housing for its sizable homeless population.
This building functions as a complement to a residence and is located on the same lot, in an area directly behind the main house – its facade looks out onto a different street and it possesses an independent entrance.
Gov. Jerry Brown, accompanied by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed legislation to continue the cap-and-trade program initially authorized under a bill signed by his Republican predecessor 11 years ago at the same Treasure Island location.
Sum paid for City skyscraper by Hong Kong food conglomerate Lee Kum Kee is highest ever for a single UK buildingIt damaged cars with scorching reflected sunlight, has been accused of creating a wind tunnel that can topple pedestrians and has split the capital into lovers and hate…
The Adaptive Biketown system hit the streets in Portland on July 21, 2017.
Zaha Hadid Architects, collaborating with digital artists and computer science researchers Andy Lomas and Mubbasir Kapadia, have been selected to create a projection mapping light show at the 2017 Schlosslichtspiele Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany. Titled ‘Behaviour Morphe,’ the d…
Strategically located at the core of the campus, Salisbury University's new Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons significantly transforms how teaching and learning occur on campus. The new building allows the university to bring all of their academic support programs together i…
Large investment companies are betting against homeownership—by buying up homes in suburban areas and putting them on the rental market.
One of last year’s most long-awaited buildings may have just met its match in terms of complexity – and it comes in the form of its own LEGO replica.
Starting in May 2018: 17 daily round trips between New Haven and Hartford, including 12 trips continuing on to Springfield.
Art and culture tend to be integral to helping disenfranchised communities self-identify, develop their identities, and organize around place-based issues. But its presence can also be used be used by real estate interests to market neighborhoods.
This urban house is built in a lot whose front is being increasingly extended towards an interesting panoramic view of Lima, due to which a hanging exposed concrete framing this view is proposed.
These examples are specific to Washington, D.C., but many of the facts listed in this article will apply elsewhere, too.
Global photography community EyeEm has announced the finalists of their 2017 Photography Awards. Free and open to photographers of all skill levels and backgrounds to submit through the EyeEm web platform and app, this year’s awards received more than 590,000 submissions from use…
The Quai Ouest building, located in Boulogne-Billancourt, possesses a broadly exposed 150-meter façade. The building has undergone a major restructuring and within this framework, the façades are designed to meet a particular challenge, both in terms of image and in terms of ener…
It’s always fascinating when architecture breaks the bounds of the profession and becomes a topic of debate in the wider profession. Fortunately, thanks to the internet, there is no shortage of such occasions: whether it’s the click-seeking cluster of articles that found a client…
An hour and a half east of Montreal the landscape begins to rise into rolling farmland punctuated by lakes and small mountains. Just before you reach Vermont, the town of North Hatley sits at the unlikely meeting point of the north-eastern United States and Quebec. Settled by the…
To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, AREA4 and Suchi Reddy of Readymade Architecture and Design collaborated with the Prospect Park Alliance to create a public art exhibition that features more than 7,000 pinwheels. Called The Connective Project, the in…
Understanding the structural aspects of architecture is an inherent task of the architect; sufficient structural knowledge allows designers to propose ideas such as large structural elements which offer an interesting response to a project's needs.
The BECYCLE boutique fitness studio is a flagship project for a new concept in the wellness sector, which captures a great potential by merging health, fitness and style. Whereas traditionally gyms have pursued a more neutral or even aseptic atmosphere, our proposal follows a con…
A new exhibition of commissioned work by artist Pablo Bronstein at London's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will explore ubiquitous neo-Georgian developments as exemplar of a British vernacular. The show—Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or The Long Reign of Pseudo-Geor…
The project starts with the consideration of heritage and historical values. We differentiate between the eternal value of the project´s masses: the compression of the great walls and domes, and the ephemeral character of the old structures: constructive systems traditionally mad…
One of the biggest issues in tiny home design is where to place the bedroom. Some swear by the loft, others prefer the headroom that comes from having everything on a single level. The Australian firm The Tiny House Company has come up with a brilliant new solution to this dilemm…
Villa Rypen is a single-storey detached house situated on the edge of a forest in Aarhus. Inspired by the unique site, the forest is invited in, and the house extends its terraces to reach out to the forest's tall trees, and also to the garden. The different seasons of the year a…
Extension of an existing building designed by Dominique Perrault, this project is intended to archive documents from the libraries of universities and research centers in the Paris region, as well as from the French National Library.
AGi Architects have taken the idea of the traditional middle-eastern courtyard typology and developed it volumetrically in this granite fronted tower
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake set in motion the transformation of the Transbay Block 9 site as Fougeron and SOM collaborate on social housing
The Surface Materials Show in Birmingham offers a broad range of seminars at a critical time for the industry
The site is at Fukushima city in Fukushima prefecture. I had a plan to build my house on the site that my family owns. The site was a piece of bare land burned down by fire. It happened a half year after The Great East Japan Earthquake. After the earthquake, I suffered a down tur…
Responding to a dramatic growth in the foreign Catholic community in Suzuka, a new religious space is needed not only for worships but also social interactions. The Catholic Suzuka Church, presented by the Alphaville Architects, is an integration of multiple functions including a…
Building a home takes time, even if you opt for a pre-fab option. But with the newest offering by the UK firm Ten Fold Engineering all you have to do is press a button and your home is built within ten minutes. How futuristic is that? Not to mention awesome. Ten Fold Engineering…
On this project landscape and architecture come together outside of all standard social housing conventions
These low-rent apartments planned for Germany take advantage of the unused space devoted to cars
Diamond Schmitt Architects are bringing a wraparound glass façade and wood accents to the concrete structure of the 14-storey Robarts Common Library
As you’re probably already aware, perovskite solar cells have the greatest potential of being the most prominent source of solar energy in the near future. They’re cheap to make and flexible enough to be applied to most any surface. And now a team of researchers from the Universi…
US based tech companies are helping their employees to get onto the property ladder as they invest in new housing schemes
A new scheme will extensively refurbish a west London studio to complement the Art-Deco style of the original 1930s anchor building
CEBRA designs a new street in a historic part of Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus
In late May, a splashy fanfare heralded the first stage of a major renovation of the historic Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
RECORD has announced the winners of its inaugural Architectural Record Traveling Fellowship competition, Lea Oxenhandler and Benjamin Halpern.
Apple’s new 175-acre California campus was envisioned by Steve Jobs as a centre for creativity and collaboration. Apple claims it will be the ‘greenest building on the planet’. It consists of 5 million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native a…
Landscape Institute shortlists One Creative Environments for NuGen’s Moorside Power Station design
BDP has beaten a string of big name architects to land the contract to refurbish the UK parliament in London, while Lord Foster has proposed a ‘pop-up’ temporary home for the country’s politicians
The largest construction project in recent years in Northern Ireland has completed at Ulster Hospital
From California to London, the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power. But they have their critics…We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chi…
The Stirling prize 2017 shortlist displays a woeful lack of adventure – not least in its omission of Tate Modern’s Switch HouseThe Stirling prize has done it again. The award for the UK building that “has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture over the pa…
Living in a glass house isn’t always practical, and more often than not, it’s also not very sustainable. But this one, the so-called Hidden Pavilion recently built in a forest near Madrid, Spain, was designed in a way that renders most shortcomings of glass homes null and void. A…
The so-called Cliff Haven is a home that was built into a cliff in Utah, back in the mid 1980s. Located in the picturesque Montezuma Canyon, it is entirely self-sufficient and can function completely off-the-grid. They are currently selling it in a closed auction, and while they’…
The tiny house movement is taking on a new dimension, as micro homes are being used to shelter the homeless.
A sequel of sorts to the artist’s earlier show, Color(ed) Theory, a new exhibition offers a new perspective on William's bold work with bright and monolithic color.
One of the things I love about being a freelancer is the ability to work virtually anywhere I please, even from the sofa or bed. But regular, 9-to-5 office spaces have been changing too, with cubicles giving way to more open plan setups. Design students at ÉCAL University have co…
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners are creating what will become Boston’s tallest residential structure
Echoing the iconic skyline of Gdansk, this building ties together traditional urban spaces, scales, materials, and colours while respectfully telling the tale of World War Two
As WAN's Urban Challenge highlights, social housing continues to be high on the agenda for many European cities as demands for affordable housing continue to rise
Families don’t typically opt to live in a bus converted into a home, that’s more for young adventurous couples and singles. But Jeremy and Mira Thompson of Key Peninsula, WA are making it work. They live full time in a converted school bus with their toddler daughter Carys. The c…
The biggest truck-lift in Europe, built by Richard Rogers for the British Museum, is vying with a gloriously ungaudy pier and a Glasgow tower that thinks it’s a town. Read our critic’s take on the full shortlist hereHastings’ revived seaside pier will go head to head with a steal…
Flats with wicker balconies and Chatham Historic Dockyard among finalists RIBA architecture prize 2017A block of flats with wicker balconies, a dockyard redevelopment and a new college campus will be among the competitors for the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize. Continue…
This project continues ODA New York’s approach to urban architecture that includes cascading setbacks and terraces
This housing scheme aimed at the private-rented sector in London makes the most of a restricted site
The shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, including a Sussex Pier and a Glasgow College, has been unveiled by the RIBA
The top four firms in Architectural Record’s yearly ranking held tight to their places from 2016.
Ever since Le Corbusier’s rallying cry in 1929, sleek slabs on stilts and levitating levels have proliferated. Here we celebrate 90 years of playful, efficient eleganceOrnament is Crime: Modernist Architecture by Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill is published by PhaidonContinue readin…
France has quite a budding tiny house movement going on and the local company La Tiny House has just unveiled yet another great creation. They’re calling it Christine, and it is a modern small home, with plenty of glazing and a warm and cozy interior that is reminiscent of Scandi…
The Chicago-based firm proposes splitting six miles of waterfront along the Mississippi River into five zones, to be developed over time.
MAD has designed a campus for the World’s fastest-accelerating electric car
This driverless transit proposal will bring 24 miles of park to New York
This tiny home was designed by Thomas Alabaster of Contemporary Shepherd Huts based in Suffolk, England. It was inspired by the actual huts shepherds in the area used to live in long ago while taking their animals to pasture. His creation features a skylight, which brings in lots…
A scruffy patch of former farm land in Hounslow is set to get the ‘mega-basement to end all mega-basements’ as £50m-worth of gravel is excavated to create the UK’s biggest subterranean space, with a new public park on topWhile the billionaires of Kensington dig ever deeper to exc…
London’s Centre for Music project revealed last week the group of firms that has been shortlisted to design a state-of-the-art concert hall in the Square Mile, city’s financial district.
Sustainable architecture can pose a lot of challenges, but these architects and builders show how thoughtful project planning ensures quality from start to finish.
Throughout Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer, premiering on PBS July 18, there’s an impression that Havana, and Cuba, is somehow on the cusp, now that Fidel Castro is dead and relations with America are normalizing.
Humber Bridge, tidal barrier and Philip Larkin’s attic flat among nine locations to be recognised for historical importanceThe attic flat where Philip Larkin wrote many of his best-known – and most withering – poems about Hull is among nine of the city’s landmarks to be listed in…
It takes a family to build a home. It also takes a team of workers to build a building. Architecture and Construction Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. The careers in this cluster incorporate many of the moving parts requir…
What are some home essentials that you can think of that you have? Or even some that you don’t have that you can’t think of to spice up or make things easier for you in your home. There are some items in some homes that are not needed in the household that couples or families […]…
Built by residents nearly 30 years ago, Walters Way and Segal Close in south London remain an inspiring symbol of self-build housing. But where are today’s DIY pioneers?“Federico, I’m terrified. I’m terrified of heights. I don’t know how to do it.” Federico Mazandarani is recalli…
There are many ways you can obtain a tiny home if you are looking to downsize. You can either commission a firm for a custom-built one, purchase an already constructed one, or build it yourself, whether from scratch or inside a repurposed shipping container, for example. There ha…
Newsletters from contractor Rydon claimed fire safety issues were scrutinised by Kensington and Chelsea councilThe cladding system on Grenfell Tower was reportedly passed by a building control officer from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 15 May 2015, despite a nati…
A man who made a fortune from plywood built one of 20th-century Britain’s most exciting blocks of flats, says Judith MartinI look forward to seeing the Plywood exhibition at the V&A (Oliver Wainwright, 13 July) and hope that as well as big names like Charles Eames and Elon Musk,…
Roman sensuality is laid bare by a visionary Victorian, a goddess creates a galaxy with breast-milk and Superman bends to black power – all in your weekly dispatchRose Finn-KelceyThis retrospective of the important British conceptual artist surveys her works from the 1970s until…
A name synonymous to Paris, Eiffel tower is that quintessential landmark which rules the list of must-see places on every Paris itinerary. This architectural jewel in the crown of Paris attracts millions of tourists from different regions of the world who wish to behold its mag…
Non-compliant materials used include aluminium composite cladding of the style implicated in the Grenfell Tower fireTwo decades of deregulation have left Australia’s building industry awash with non-compliant building materials, its construction practices poorly policed, and thou…
Museum of LondonBy 2050, some 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities. How will we cope? This maddeningly random show weighs up some inspired solutionsCan something as messy and complex as the issues surrounding mass global urbanisation be squeezed into a popular e…
Certificate for Celotex insulation in tower block said it should only be used with non-combustible claddingBuilding safety experts warned in 2014 that the insulation planned for use on Grenfell Tower – which was installed and which fuelled the fatal fire in June – should be used…
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation; Clea Chakraverty, The Conversation; Fabrice Rousselot, The Conversation, and Stephan Schmidt
Developed by the Van Alen Institute, Melissa Mark-Viverito, the NYC Criminal Justice Task Force, and others, Justice In Design offers a framework for more efficient, supportive, and humane city jails.
‘It was a landmark of tropical modernism – but it was abandoned during the civil war’Like so many buildings in Angola’s capital, Luanda, Hotel Panorama has been abandoned. It’s a relic of colonial times. Built in the 1960s, the hotel is a landmark of tropical modernist architectu…
From army planes to pharaohs’ coffins, the V&A’s eye-opening show tells the astonishing story of this age-old yet perennially modern materialThe De Havilland Mosquito was the fastest, highest-flying plane of the second world war, its light, streamlined body making it able to outr…
Architect best known for designing Roman Catholic churches and his work on the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London“My father never spoke to me about creating architecture,” said Richard Gilbert Scott, the architect son of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, designer of the Anglican…
The allure of the city can be found in the work of the modernist architect, tours of which can be fueled by pintxos and an Estrella Galicia beer.
Taking landscaping to new heights is an idea that stretches all the way back to the wondrous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Amanda Levete, Norman Foster and Frank Gehry are among the starchitects vying to design the future home for the London Symphony Orchestra.
Norman Foster and New York firm behind New York’s High Line park also among those to submit design plans for long-mooted cultural hubThe conductor’s baton has been raised in the battle for the Barbican’s new concert hall with some of the world’s leading architects making the shor…
The $55-million renovation has reordered the museum’s home in a 19th-century Beaux Arts palace.
The country’s authoritarian government pushed for recognition of a city that was once a colonial playground for Italian architects of the 1930s.
Nouveau is a style of art that focuses on simple patterns, curved lines, and elements of nature. These elements are often worked in together to form beautiful patterns, ranging from the simple to the complex. Many people choose to use this style when decorating their homes, and t…