New Criteria for Affordable Housing: Green and Healthy
An update to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria certification, available to property owners of low- and moderate-income housing, integrates key aspects of WELL 2.0.
Architecture
Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism Offers a Snapshot of Modern Architecture’s Beginnings
Though still largely unknown, the Belgian-born architect and artist forged ideas and places—including the Bauhaus’s predecessor—that defined 20th-century design.
A New Landscape in Montreal Weaves Together Icons of the City’s Expo 67
Encompassing a Buckminster Fuller–designed geodesic dome and an Alexander Calder sculpture, the intervention shows how the city is rethinking its world’s fair treasures.
Pacific Rim Calling: Seattle’s Asian Art Museum Gets a Revamp
The renovation, undertaken by local firm LMN Architects, had to reconcile contemporary requirements with the museum’s landmarked features.
T SAKHI’s Urban Interventions
Founded by sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, the intercontinental studio aims to change how people interact in cities.
In X-Ray Architecture, the Metaphor Escapes Control
Beatriz Colomina's new book overlooks the concrete cruelties of the designed environment.
Vectorworks BIM Software Helps this Architecture Firm Make a Big Impact
Australian firm Idle Architecture Studio relies on 3D modeling to solve problems and get the most out of their team.
This House in Rural Germany Merges Alpine Vernacular with Venturian Postmodernism
Munich-based gerstmeir inić designed a family home that borrows ideas from the Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia.
25 Kent Mirrors Williamsburg’s Aesthetics, Entrepreneurialism, and Rapid Change
Designed by Hollwich Kushner, the new mixed-use development is a sensitive addition to North Brooklyn’s glitzy, booming waterfront.
An Architect's House Filled With Cosmic Energy and Historical References Rises in the South of England
Adam Richards based the design of his Sussex home on the Tarkovsky film Stalker, filling it with art, maps, and ample cultural symbolism.
Outlier Lofts in Charlestown Has the Neighborhood in Its Bones
Designed by French 2D, the three floor-through lofts were built in the husk of a legendary Boston bar.
At Cornell's New Fine Arts Library, the Book Sets the Standard
Inside the library, 100,000 volumes appear to float midair across staggered honeycomb steel mezzanines.
KPF’s Gleaming New Tower at New York's 55 Hudson Yards
Located over a subway station, the 51-story tower required reconciling some difficult site conditions.
Foster + Partners’ 100 East 53rd Tips Its Hat to Its Iconic Midtown Neighbors
The firm resolved the challenges of the site—narrow footprint, iconic neighbor—by paying extra care to the primary east and west facades.
BIG’s Kistefos Museum Puts a “Twist” on Conventional Art Galleries
Opened last month, the unusual structure reconciles the features of a challenging site.
A Richard Neutra Penthouse in Your Own Backyard?
The Spanish manufacturer Kettal is reviving a design by the California Modernist, offering it in a penthouse and pavilion format.
Let There Be Shade: A PoMo Church Looks to Gothic Architecture and Algorithms to Solve its Solar Problem
A renovation of the Phillip Johnson and John Burgee–designed Crystal Cathedral adds algorithmically-modeled shades to protect the congregation from the sun.
New Exhibition Explores Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Architecture—and the Slaves Who Built It
In "Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals," the uplifting content of early American civic buildings is offset by the reality of enslaved labor.
Far from Being a Temple to Rationality, the Bauhaus Was a "Cauldron of Perversions"
Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina explores how the Bauhaus harbored deeply transgressive ideas and pedagogies.
At Washington University, A Cluster of New Buildings Enlivens a Neglected Part of Campus
The east side of the Washington University campus in St. Louis is undergoing a massive transformation, with buildings by KieranTimberlake.
