Stephen Zacks

With a new, engaging design, New York City’s Department of Probation finds fresh purpose for its waiting rooms.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence helps lay the foundation for the revitalization of a struggling Rust Belt city.

Core Architecture + Design— Washington, D.C.

Course# Met126 This course is AIA/CES registered for 1LU/HSW/SD. Sustainability is no more a buzz word, it’s the backbone of your projects. High performance has become critical to architecture; new shapes emerge in the service of environmental responsiveness, high-tech efficiency,…

The German architect Stefan Behnisch pushes architectural form into new energy-efficient directions.

Kansas architecture students haul a prefab arts center across the state to a tornado-ravaged town.

For three decades Steven Holl has used watercolors—drawn each morning, before the deadlines kick in—as a springboard toward the creation of architecture.

Dessau is one of several German cities testing creative solutions for urban depopulation.

A survey of leisure activities on the New York waterfront leaves a lot to be desired—in particular, something to drink.

As architectural activists go, Teddy Cruz is a firebrand. His passionate sermons begin with the observation of injustices along the Tijuana–San Diego border, but in his broad geopolitical gloss, urban inequality divides along a global north-south axis associated with immigration…

Traditional fishermen in Lebanon land a ­custom-designed community.

­In a battered New Orleans, the CityBuild consortium creates a process for community-based projects.

Delayed by decades of civil war and dictatorship, contemporary Spanish design is now a force to be reckoned with in the international furniture-and-lighting scene.

Moore Ruble Yudell—and a handful of other top firms—is reshaping the university experience by creating, overseas, that uniquely American place: the college campus.

Contrary to popular belief, American manufacturing jobs haven’t all been shipped over-seas. Utilizing better design and state-of-the-art technology, the sector has actually grown.

Localism is an American tradition that goes back pretty much to the Declaration of Independence: the right to make one’s own laws, to be self-governed, to pay taxes only as it benefits one’s community. It is in some ways a…

­A young architect finds promise in the concrete barriers that divide Israel and Palestine.

An architect best known for teaching and theory builds his first project—a Mies-inspired glass house—as a vessel for the disappearing self.

Dubai’s insane rate of development is easy to misinterpret—even caricature—but the cliché obscures the city’s more serious ambitions.

If you don’t like the way Dubai looks today, wait a year or two—it’s changing fast. Here’s a selection of upcoming projects likely to have a big impact on the horizon.

The raging, unregulated world economy is now one we all share. How we reconcile that with the threats facing us will be the moral and technological dilemma of our time.

An outspoken architect points the way to socially responsible practice by building his own designs.

The context-driven work of an emerging architect reflects his deep ambivalence about the high-end reconstruction of Beirut.

Studio FAM’s memorial to victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings

A new book puts the history of one of New York’s premier public-art organizations into context.

With its focus on the patient experience and fierce dedication to green materials, Guenther 5 looks to remake the hospital paradigm.

A look at the work spaces inside New York City’s infamous design address.

The work of students in the United States and Europe provides an intriguing glimpse into emerging trends in product and industrial design.

A masterful addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum by Steven Holl Architects brightens the landscape of midtown Kansas City and pushes the limits for daylighting exhibition spaces.

Can architecture help produce paradigm-shifting discoveries? A research center by Rafael Viñoly aims to find out what makes scientists—and the human mind—tick.

A New York City architect opens up his apartment to take advantage of natural light.

Recently appointed curators reveal their fantasy acquisitions.

Spectacle brings David Rockwell’s zest for life to the printed page.

The conservative, pragmatic Midwestern city of Omaha, Nebraska, institutes one of the country’s most progressive sets of urban-design standards.

The Van Alen Institute’s latest exhibition is a scenic argument for the importance of recreational spaces in cities.

HOK Sport’s Dennis Wellner describes his partnership with Peter Eisenman on the design of the new Arizona Cardinals stadium in Phoenix.

Thomas Leeser’s new Lower Manhattan cultural venue is visually open to the neighborhood.