Andrew Blum

­New York tourism gets a 21st-century interface.

On the eve of Barack Obama’s New New Deal, a series of compelling photographs illustrates the divide between repair and renewal, despair, and hope.

With his Make It Right project in New Orleans, Pitt may be on his way to becoming architecture’s most important patron. Is architecture up for the challenge?

In the age of global warming, the greening of the American college campus is a largely grassroots effort driven by students, faculty, and in-house staff dedicated to sustainable thinking.

A chronic problem with employee retention led this pragmatic client to building green.

Brad Cloepfil’s emerging body of work may symbolize a shift away from glib shape-making toward a more timeless and lasting architecture.

Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity.

Objects should celebrate our connection to the digital world, not minimize it.

With natural lighting and amenities for transportation, HOK’s downtown Toronto studios set the gold standard for office interiors.

Parks and organizations worldwide are learning “public-space management” from the Central Park Conservancy.

Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process?

Long before Lapidus and Rockwell there was the sumptuous grandeur of Schultze & Weaver.

The idea of sustainable development helped spark a second wave of environmental awareness.

Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Brooklyn Bridge Park seems destined to become New York’s third great urban landscape.

Olivo Barbieri’s model world.

A photographic exhibition on the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shows a city determined to rebuild.

Apple’s graphically oriented new screen reader may be the future of accessible interface design.

Two decades later, Michael Graves is still best-known for one Alessi design.

As he works on the landscape at the de Young museum in San Francisco, observers wonder: can Walter Hood bridge the divide between public space and in-your-face architecture?

At the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg weren’t afraid to make a mess.

San Francisco’s Public Architecture forges a model for fitting pro bono services into a firm’s regular practice.

Over the last few months, the concrete-colored roof of the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San Francisco has turned completely black, blanketed by 30,000 square feet of photovoltaic (PV) panels. The building—which is owned by the City and County of…

Whether he’s shaking up tired office furnishings or pushing a radical design theory called Massive Change, Bruce Mau is unafraid to tangle with the status quo.

Two Toronto architects reimagine urbanism’s bête noir—the blighted space beneath an elevated highway.

Aboard a new firm called Lolah, an unlikely crew of traditional boat builders and high-end designers finds itself riding high on the sometimes choppy waters of modern furniture design.

A musical art piece approaches the delicate subject of suicide prevention with an affirmation of life.