Costing less than glitzier parks in Moscow, the Tatarstan initiative is revivifying the local design and manufacturing bases with a "teach a man to fish" approach.
The proliferation of these events begs the question: Who is the targeted audience of a biennial, and whom does its staging benefit?
Young local architect Wolfgang Zeh spent years on the house, which responds to the unique spatial advantages and constraints of the once-decrepit lot.
The three-month-long show occupies two decommissioned public sites and uses the Emirati city’s intact urban texture to discuss contemporary issues in architecture.
Designed by American firm SWA, the area includes plantings and pedestrian routes that envelop buildings by the likes of Tadao Ando.
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.
In his new book, the journalist and photographer Lee Bey directs readers to some of Chicago's greatest architectural treasures, nearly all of them hiding in plain sight.
In looking beyond the city’s central business district, the annual design festival staked out new ground for architecture and design.
A new book traces the development of this typology, whose ubiquity is unique to the West Coast metropolis.
With an unabashed embrace of the empirical, contributors assert something about how space is experienced.
At the biennial, artists and activists shine a light on a tragic chapter of the 20th century—the rise and fall of public housing.
The editors of the new volume Imagining the Modern argue that the reviled federal program was responsible for creating the postcard Pittsburgh.
Under the right conditions, the new West Edge high-rise seems to disappear into the sky.
The Netherlands, a country with more bikes than inhabitants, invested over €30 million in the multistory structure.
Designed by FGP Atelier and Taller ADG, the new Diablos Rojos stadium is helping revive the city’s 1968 Olympic park.
Local firms Kuth Ranieri Architects and ELS Architecture and Urban Design teamed up for the project, which tailored the aging facility to the needs of its present-day community.
Metropolis caught up with the architect and planner, discussing his current projects, America's political climate, and more.
An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.
The biennial Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA), which recently named its Silver and Gold winners, showcases exceptional urban projects in cities large and small.
Griffin founded the consultancy Urban Planning for the American City, which she complements with her pedagogical work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
