Featured Interviews
James Ewing
Architectural photography illustrates buildings and brings them to people who will never see them first hand. At it’s most simple it is a transporta..
Ruth Baleiko & Craig Curtis
Convincing a client who had worked out of a split level two story library for forty years that we could make a six story solution easy to operate and ..
James Richärd, James Richärd, Kelly Bauer & Stephen J. Ken..
Libraries are inherently tied to the transformation of informational systems which are changing at an exponential pace. From its earliest...
Philip G. Freelon
In public sector work, it is often difficult to address the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. Doing so within a limited budget adds another layer..
Andreas Schuering
Required by the building owners was only the simple and unemotional claim of a book storage instead of an experience of space which the working and un..
Design
Barrio by Barrio
The Colombian city of MedellÃn is making its case for the power of architectural activism.
Maryhill Museum of Art, With Revenue From the Wind
Financed partly by income from wind turbines, an addition is helping the rural Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State attract new visitors — and..
Battle of the Barnes
The new museum attempts to mimic the best of the original with modern twists and technological improvements, writes Alan Rappeport
Fighting Crime With Architecture in MedellÃn, Colombia
MedellÃn, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the cityâ..
RIBA President's Medals Student Awards 2012
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched the call for nominations for this year's RIBA President's Medals Student Award..
Sustainability
How to make sheds cool
"The challenge for three teams of architecture students from Woodbury University in Burbank: Design the coolest, smartest cabin that you can dream up...
After Greenpeace Protests, Apple Promises to Dump Coal Power
This story was produced by Wired as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by ear..
Marlins Park is the First Retractable Roof Building in the W..
Marlins Park is the first retractable roof building in the world to receive LEED Gold environmental certification. The Miami Ballpark District, compri..
Federal Green Building Code Creates Unnecessary Risks and Co..
Someone recently asked me why I was baffled about the Department of Defense's decision to use both LEED and a green building code. Here are..
Monkworking: The Monastery
This is one of the most relaxing indoor shedworking structures we've seen on Shedworking. It's for Netlife Research (a 'user-experience consultancy') ..
Business
Novelties: Wristwatches That Help Screen Your Messages, and ..
A new generation of watches connects with smartphones and other devices to offer news feeds and e-mail, text and other alerts.
Rehabbed housegains suite space
This four-bedroom, single-family Colonial in Cambridgeport has undergone an architect-designed total rehab, opening...
New York penthouse sells for a record $90 million
An unnamed buyer paid more than $90 million for a Midtown Manhattan penthouse, the highest price ever paid for a New York apartment, according to the ..
Walmart expands its bribery investigation
Walmart said it is looking beyond Mexico for possible bribery in its foreign operations. Will the widening probe affect Walmart’s business?
Working the Room at Facebook’s Times Square Party
Hey! Where is everyone? I headed to Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square, ground zero of the biggest high tech stock offering ever, where Facebook woul..
