Aiming to Engage the Public, DS+R's New Tianjin Juilliard School Pays Tribute to Its New York Counterpart
The conservatory's transparent and open design includes space for performance, practice, research, and interactive exhibitions.
Cultural Architecture
Future100: Soundscapes Combat the "Tyranny of the Visual"
Two speculative projects examine how small-scale materials and objects can influence acoustic transmission and the experience of space.
Herzog & de Meuron Completes the Colossal M+ Museum in Hong Kong
The building’s T-shaped profile is made up of intersecting vertical and horizontal volumes that will hold a mix of public galleries and private offices.
A Tilted Music Academy in Italy Responds to Its Geographic and Seismic Contexts
Nestled within a bowl of hills and agricultural fields, the Camerino Academy of Music replaces an earlier building destroyed by an earthquake.
Comment: Architects Didn't Invent Redlining, But We Helped Reinforce It—On Two Continents
Activist and architectural designer Wandile Mthiyane examines the twin legacies of American redlining and Apartheid.
At Dallas's Hall of State, a Return to Majesty
The Texas Art Deco gem was fastidiously restored by Gensler, which preserved ample Lone Star symbolism and winks from the original architect.
A Noah’s Ark–Themed Children’s Museum Lands at the Jewish Museum Berlin
At ANOHA, the new permanent children’s installation designed by Olson Kundig, a 1960s flower market shelters an ark where 150 animal sculptures roam.
After Three Decades, Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall Finally Opens
The complex has recently been completed after Ankara-based architecture firm Uygur Mimarlık was selected to design the government-funded project in 1992.
Baltic Coastal Inspiration Defines This Library in Rural Finland
The Helsinki studio JKMM—no stranger to library design—conceived Fyyri, an airy, cool building that does more than a traditional library.
Memorials Are for the Living
Eddie Blake and Gian Luca Amadei question how architecture can help us contemplate loss and memory in the age of COVID-19.
SOM Designs a Citadel for the National Museum of the US Army
A steel-armored set of glistening pavilions combines to form a unified museum for the nation’s oldest military branch.
A New Building Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building completes a decade-long campus redevelopment project.
A Floating Church in East London Prepares to Set Sail
Designed by Denizen Works, Genesis is intended to connect to a new generation of Londoners.
In Rotterdam, MVRDV Recasts the Archive as Museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will put 151,000 works—its entire collection—on public display in a new salad bowl–like structure.
From the British Melting Pot, "New London Fabulous" Emerges
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
David Adjaye Wins RIBA's 2021 Royal Gold Medal
The British-Ghanian architect is well known for projects around the world including the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.
Targeting the Spectacle and Attention Economy at Area15
The attraction-filled art complex debuts in Las Vegas today, and with a keen eye for combining the over-the-top and the everyday, it fits right into recent changes in the cultural economy.
A New Exhibition Highlights Modernism's Debt to Japanese Architecture
Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration Between Japan and Philadelphia explores the artistic interconnections between Antonin and Noémi Raymond, George Nakashima, and Junzo Yoshimura.
A New School Building in Stuttgart Completes the City's Renowned Ballet Scene
Munich firm Burger Rudacs designed the two faces of the new John Cranko School to interface with the city in contrasting ways.
With Interactive Concepts and Unfussy Materials, Hou de Sousa Knows "What the Public Wants"
New York designers Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa create public art installations driven by practicability, adaptability, and a keen awareness of what delights.
