The Next Big Thing
With the opening of his newest project—the mammoth 8House in Copenhagen—Bjarke Ingels continues his relentless climb to the top.
Suzanne LaBarre
Now Boarding: Your Bed
Taking a page from airline design, a London firm thinks it can make hospitals comfier and more efficient.
Gio Ponti’s New York
A new museum exhibit casts light on a Manhattan masterpiece—and its uncertain future.
Fantasy Island
Dan Pearlman creates a refuge in a children’s psychiatric ward in Berlin.
The Better Brick: 2010 Next Generation Winner
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.
Next Gen 2010: The Runners-Up
This year’s competition asked for simple, but brilliant and elegant, design fixes—small gestures with big reach.
Big Idea, Small Package
GRO Architects finds major opportunities in a tiny residential lot in New Jersey.
Flirting with Danger
A new elevated walkway at Morris Arboretum offers the thrill of dangling in the treetops.
Their Day in the Sun
An exhibition of student designs gives Grätzel solar cells their due.
Mix It Up
200 Fifth Avenue—an old and venerable building in New York’s Flatiron District—gets a stunning modern makeover by Studios Architecture.
Grn Air
Southwest Airlines’ new “green” plane flies on a message of savvy environmentalism and even savvier marketing.
Raising the Bar
Mechanical-engineering students design a better bathroom fixture.
Hope Floats
Architects find promise in New York’s rising sea levels.
Kroon Hall
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.
Fourth Annual Smart Environments Awards
This year’s winners paired clever interior design with the latest green technology for intimate spaces that are not just inspirational but humane.
What’s Next: The 1-5-10 Issue
Prescriptions for the future in the form of predictions—from the wildly speculative to the intensely pragmatic
The East Harlem School, Pride of East 103rd Street
A new middle school in Harlem is the product of its stubborn and visionary founders and the building’s equally stubborn and visionary architect.
A new middle school in Harlem is the product of its stubborn and visionary founders and the building’s equally stubborn and visionary architect.
The Oh! Factor
How James Dyson transforms everyday objects–the vacuum cleaner, the hand dryer, and now the desk fan–into objects of wonder.
Ready for Business
A new industrial-design program immerses students in the realities of corporate culture.
The New Tools
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.
