Author: 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mechanical-engineering students design a better bathroom fixture.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.