Suzanne LaBarre

With the opening of his newest project—the mammoth 8House in Copenhagen—Bjarke Ingels continues his relentless climb to the top.

Taking a page from airline design, a London firm thinks it can make hospitals comfier and more efficient.

A new museum exhibit casts light on a Manhattan masterpiece—and its uncertain future.

Dan Pearlman creates a refuge in a children’s psychiatric ward in Berlin.

This year’s winner—a bioengineered brick, conceived by a young American architect—may be modest in physical scale, but it has the potential for global impact.

This year’s competition asked for simple, but brilliant and elegant, design fixes—small gestures with big reach.

GRO Architects finds major opportunities in a tiny residential lot in New Jersey.

A new elevated walkway at Morris Arboretum offers the thrill of dangling in the treetops.

An exhibition of student designs gives Grätzel solar cells their due.

200 Fifth Avenue—an old and venerable building in New York’s Flatiron District—gets a stunning modern makeover by Studios Architecture.

Southwest Airlines’ new “green” plane flies on a message of savvy environmentalism and even savvier marketing.

Mechanical-engineering students design a better bathroom fixture.

Architects find promise in New York’s rising sea levels.

Yale’s Kroon Hall is proof positive that aggressively green buildings—even carbon-neutral ones—don’t have to sacrifice beauty to achieve their environmental goals.

This year’s winners paired clever interior design with the latest green technology for intimate spaces that are not just inspirational but humane.

Prescriptions for the future in the form of predictions—from the wildly speculative to the intensely pragmatic

A new industrial-design program immerses students in the realities of corporate culture.

How James Dyson transforms everyday objects–the vacuum cleaner, the hand dryer, and now the desk fan–into objects of wonder.

Can emerging technologies change the culture of building or end the adversarial relationship between contractors and architects? When it came time to become a building owner, Autodesk decided to run a few plays from its own digital playbook.

Brooklyn invests in a greener impound facility, but it’s unclear if the gesture will win public approval.

A new competition encourages architects to design kites using any material under the sun.

With an inspired new adolescent facility, a Massachusetts school at last has architecture befitting the spirit of its mission.

The low-key firm of Bentel & Bentel could be the most famous restaurant designers you’ve never heard of. That may change with their newest creation, Rouge Tomate.

­MIO partners with Target on a collection of sustainable outdoor products.

At a new men’s health clinic in San Francisco, the DWR catalog is just as titillating as Playboy.

Located in the basement of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco, Olle Lundberg’s Moss Room is a free-flowing tribute to the spirit of its region.

Course# Met128 This course is AIA/CES registered for 1LU. The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a marvel of acoustic engineering. From the foundation to the ceiling every inch has been designed for optimum…

Working with a diverse cast of engineers, acousticians, and technical consultants, Grimshaw Architects transformed an inhospitable hillside into a state-of-the-art performance center.

Cities are turning to LEDs as a way to cut costs—even before the technology has proven itself.

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Three and a half acres of transcendent minimalism make one corner of Sonoma County just a bit more Zen.

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An architecture student delivers the perfect metaphor for a purse shop in the Philippines.

­The Discovery Channel imagines a sunny future, with a little help from two Next Generation awardees.

A look at the origin of architecture’s motivational “2 percent” statistic—and why it’s wrong

­Radiohead becomes the first band to go all-LED.

Now that the first elements of Ed Mazria’s Architecture 2030 Challenge have made it into law, he’s ready to push for the rest.

Pocket Pads We love that an architect in the third-largest state in the union has erected living quarters the size of a dollhouse! Jay Shafer, of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, in Sebastopol, California—population 7,774; square footage 52,411,392—has designed spaces as…

Could freeways hold the answer to Los Angeles schools’ pollution problem?

The Rose Fellowship schools recent architecture grads in the rewards and challenges of meaningful work on low-income housing.

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