The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) convened a hearing today where Washington, D.C. architect Shalom Baranes presented design updates for White House ballroom and mentioned that a 1-story ...
The Grand Theater in Shanghai opens to a highly active plaza. Its facade nods to the site’s history as a cement factory. (© RawVision) If this explosion of cultural centers signals a healthy market, ...
[Editor’s note: This March 2 article shared some of the design history of the Air Force Academy’s modernist campus and the repair and restoration of its landmark Chapel. But it is just one small part ...
In a recent article in The New York Times, Anna Kodé lamented the blandness of multifamily architecture in the U.S. and posited several theories for this disappointment. The root cause of the banality ...
Zimmerman House by Craig Ellwood photographed by Julius Shulman (Getty Research Institute 2004.R.10(Job 1467.)) Jon Burke was best studied under his famed pseudonym Craig Ellwood. The Ellwood name was ...
Freedom Plaza is a 4.1 million square foot complex slated for the largest undeveloped land parcel in Manhattan, just south of the United Nations. (Negativ/Courtesy BIG) The towers by BIG will ...
SCB’s economical decision to keep the complex almost entirely intact won them the bid for the project. The primary design move at the scale of the site was to carve out a central section of the TV ...
Fulton Houses are in the heart of Chelsea, located not far from prominent buildings like Google HQ and a new luxury high-rise by BIG. (Elvert Barnes/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) Renee Keitt, ...
The extent of ChatGPT capabilities have been astonishing, to say the least, as echoed by thousands across the internet. For architecture, the profession has been thrust unwillingly into a crossroads ...
This is an article from our special November timber issue. We like to blame a lot of things for climate change—namely coal and cow farts—but if we were to search for a worthy scapegoat, architects ...
Baltimore’s iconic but largely vacant festival market, Harborplace, will be replaced with a $500 million development consisting of two residential towers, offices, shops, restaurants, and expanded ...
The Ismaili Center stands as a symbol for many Houstonians whose layered identities are shaped by religion and culture as much as place. (Iwan Baan) The Ismaili community is a sect of Shia Islam with ...