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.
Architecture
T SAKHI’s Urban Interventions
Founded by sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, the intercontinental studio aims to change how people interact in cities.
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.
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.
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.
Artist David Hartt Takes Over a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Synagogue
On view through December 19, David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) explores themes of diaspora and belonging.
Montreal Revamps a Historic Pier, Creating a New and Vibrant Public Space
The city tapped local firm Provencher_Roy for the project, which saw the drab pier given a sleek makeover and greenspace with 30,000 flowering and aromatic plants.
Step Inside the Habitat 67–Inspired Dorms at the Dyson Institute
Designed by WilkinsonEyre, the new lodgings feature massive windows and sustainable materials like CLT.
Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Activism
Researchers, historians, and publishers at the biennial seek to forge closer connections between activism and the architectural profession.
Urban Renewal, A Blight on Other American Cities, Sparked an Architectural Renaissance in Pittsburgh
The editors of the new volume Imagining the Modern argue that the reviled federal program was responsible for creating the postcard Pittsburgh.
WORKac Crafts a Progressive New Student Center for RISD
Updating an existing structure and adding a bold new one, the firm has balanced playfulness and seriousness, art and work, old and new.
A Charter School's Renovated Campus Foregrounds Physical and Mental Wellness
Designed by HMFH Architects, the new outpost for Bridge Boston Charter School supports students and their families both in and out of the classroom.
Bucharest's MARe Museum Is a Ghostly Shadow of Its Nation's Dark History
The museum, which seeks to generate conversations about Romania's communist past, re-creates the house of a ruthless government minister.
This Reconfigurable Tower in Beirut Allows Its Inhabitants to Slide Its Walls Outside
The transformable Modulofts tower, designed by local firm FSA, morphs to accommodate changing lifestyles and provides new perspectives on a changing Beirut.
10 Architects Talk About Their Thanksgiving Plans
Denise Scott Brown, Richard Meier, Elizabeth Diller, and other architects divulge their Turkey Day traditions, old and new.
Great Buildings Get Baked
As part of Archtober, the Center for Architecture hosted the second annual Great Architectural Bake-Off.
From Monstrous to Marvelous, "Never Built New York" Showcases NYC's Unrealized Ambitions
By considering the city's unbuilt skyline, a new exhibition at the Queens Museum compels viewers to consider its future.
