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In Las Vegas, Autodesk Goes All In on Artificial Intelligence
Architecture News The scene at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas for the 2026 edition of Autodesk University. On September 15, some 12,000 people gathered at the Venetian Expo convention center in Las Vegas to learn about the latest innovations in “design and make” software.
A Robotic Storage System Makes Room for Expanded Programs at HDR’s New Main Branch Library in Omaha
Architects & Firms There’s a billboard at the crossing of Dodge and 72nd Streets, where the new Omaha Central Library (OCL) opened this spring. “We actually looked into buying the sign to turn it into art that would be visible from inside the library,” recounts Thomas Trenolone, HDR’s design director and the principal in charge of the roughly 100,000-square-foot, four-story branch.
The Architectural League of New York Announces New Program Director
Architecture News Marianela D'Aprile The Architectural League of New York has named writer Marianela D’Aprile as its new program director, marking another leadership change at one of the country’s oldest architectural advocacy nonprofits. D’Aprile succeeds longtime program director Anne Rieselbach, who, after a 40-year tenure, has taken on an advisory role at the League.
They’re Building Something New in Allentown, Leaving Venturi Scott Brown in Limbo
Architecture News The VSBA-designed addition to the Allentown Art Museum faces an uncertain future. The Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) addition to the Allentown Art Museum might not be as well-known as the firm’s other museums, such as the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London or the Seattle Museum of Art.
Architecture Students Put Down Their Pencils and Pick Up Power Tools at Studio North
Architecture News Made for Shade is a mobile structure that offers shade and a place to rest for gleaners, visitors, and farm workers. Although based in the collegiate setting of Cambridge, Massachusetts, neither architect Keith Moskow nor Robert Linn is an educator—at least not formally. Almost every summer since 2011, however, the coprincipals of Moskow Linn Architects have guided a small group of college-age students through a weeklong design-build intensive.
Snapshot: Jakob+MacFarlane Designs a Colorful Vertical Village on the Belgian Coast
Belgian identity has always been in-between. The seaside hamlet of Knokke-Heist, sandwiched by the Port of Antwerp-Bruge and the Dutch border, commissioned Parisian practice Jakob+MacFarlane to design a 100-residence tower to bring back locals and young people pushed out by rising real-estate prices. The Community House takes the region’s vernacular houses and stacks and renders them in aluminum panels as if they’re shipping containers.
A Four-Year Visa Limit Is a Problem for Five-Year Architecture Students
College is sometimes called “the best four years of your life,” but, as anyone who went through a five-year architecture program knows, that time frame is really just a figure of speech. For international students, however, it may soon become law if a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decision limiting their admission into the United States to a set four-year period goes into effect.
In Peru’s Coastal Desert, Leggett & Cahuas Designs a Fully Open-Air and Off-Grid Retreat from Modern Life
ProjectsBuildings by TypeResidential ArchitectureRecord Houses Sited in an ancient gully, the Casa Cerro Negro is surrounded by hills that limit ocean views.
LOC Architects Builds a Light-Filled Addition to Burton Tech in South Los Angeles
ProjectsBuildings by TypeK-12 School Design Alliance Burton Tech High.School, Los Angeles. Architects & Firms Few building types are burdened with as many guidelines, competing priorities, or varied stakeholder interests as educational facilities.
Verstas Architects Completes a Mortuary in Helsinki’s Malmi Cemetery
ProjectsBuildings by TypeCivic Architecture Malmi Mortuary and Farewell Spaces, Helsinki. Architects & Firms The Finnish capital of Helsinki faces a challenge that is becoming all too familiar to many European cities. Earlier this year, its population crossed the 700,000 mark, but the cohort that has increased the most is those over 65 years old.
StudioPractice Makes Its Debut with a Long-Awaited Sonoma County Courthouse
ProjectsBuildings by TypeCivic Architecture Sonoma County Hall of Justice, Santa Rosa, California, Architects & Firms In 2009, the Los Angeles branch of Richard Meier & Partners responded to a public RFP for the design of a courthouse in Santa Rosa, California, the heart of wine country in Sonoma County. The seven-story, 167,000-square-foot Hall of Justice the architects proposed did not finally open until this July.
UNESCO Inscribes 13 Alvar Aalto Works as a World Heritage Site
Architecture News Alvar Aalto’s Sunila in Kotka, Finland. Over the course of 10 days in late July, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in Busan, South Korea, to deliberate over the nominations for the list of sites it manages. Although long rumored and proposed, the works of Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto eluded that recognition, until this year.
In a Central-Ontario Forest, Studio KSA Elevates Treehouses to High-end Hospitality
Architects & Firms How does one get into the treehouse business? For Cam and Lauren Green, the cofounders of the hospitality brand Fort Treehouse Company, it started with an intensive workshop on the sustainable design and construction of these elevated structures, at Yestermorrow in Waitsfield, Vermont. Cam attended the course in 2014, which introduced him to this rarefied yet robust community of enthusiasts.
Pelli Clarke & Partners Builds Its Late Founder’s Final Design
Architecture News The Lola Mora Cultural Center, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, by Pelli Clarke & Partners Seven years after the death of César Pelli, his firm Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the late architect’s last project, the Lola Mora Cultural Center. Fittingly, the museum is located in the northwest corner of Argentina, not far from where Pelli was born.
Cosentino Enters a New Age Devoted to Mineral Surfaces Manufacturing
Large-Scale ProductionAlternative Surfaces When Eduarda Justo and Eduardo Martínez Cosentino founded their family business in 1945, the work was difficult and dirty, processing stone that had been quarried out of the dusty hillsides of Macael, Spain.
‘Mysteries of a Communist Cave’ Investigates the Exotic Origins of a Parisian Party Headquarters
Architecture NewsCommentary & CriticismOpinion The headquarters of the French Communist Party (PCF) in Paris. On the cover of Mysteries of a Communist Cave, a woman stands with her back to the reader. As if a contrapposto stance and the hands on her hips weren’t enough to accentuate the curves of this jack-booted femme fatale, a red hammer and sickle are emblazoned on the posterior of her form-fitting cargo pants.
RAMSA Completes an Inconspicuous Addition to the New York Historical
ProjectsBuildings by TypeMuseums & Art Centers The Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical. As the New York Historical inaugurates the Tang Wing for American Democracy, a $175 million extension and renovation by RAMSA, it’s worth remembering the institution’s own storied history and the controversial developments proposed for the site where the new five-story structure now stands.
At Cosentino’s Factory in Spain, Macael Marble Gives Way to Engineered Stone
Architecture NewsArchitecture Products Macael, in Spain's Almería province, has been home to marble quarries for thousands of years. When Eduarda Justo and Eduardo Martínez Cosentino founded their family business in 1945, the work was difficult and dirty, processing stone that had been quarried out of the dusty hillsides of Macael, Spain.
In Paraguay’s Capital, MOS and Adamo-Faiden Rethink Public Housing for Residents of Informal Settlements
ProjectsBuildings by TypeMultifamily Housing ArchitectureResidential Architecture Chacarita Alta Housing Architects & Firms The constitution of Paraguay states that “every inhabitant of the Republic has the right to decent housing facilities.” Ratified in 1992 following decades of brutal military dictatorship, the document remains aspirational for the landlocked country, one of the poorest in South America.
Lake Flato Architects Serves Up a Classic Tennis Clubhouse in Dallas
ProjectsBuildings by TypeHospitality Projects T Bar M Racquet Club, Dallas. Architects & Firms Since 1972, the T Bar M Racquet Club has hosted tennis pros such as John McEnroe, Stan Smith, and Anna Kournikova, earning something of legendary status in north Dallas. Named after its founders, famed Lone Star racketers Jack Turpin, Tut Bartzen, and Clarence Mabry, T Bar M’s 13-acre campus, however, never quite lived up to its stellar reputation.
Professors’ Peril: The Hybrid Teaching-Practice Model
Architectural TechnologyArchitect Continuing Education The artistic or “avant-garde” side of architecture has long been the domain of independent practitioners who design small-scale projects while also teaching. The bargain of this split focus is that the income from working as an educator gives architects a degree of creative autonomy to pursue less prolific but more experimental work, while academic research lends itself to more prestigious projects, such as publications and exhibitions.
Design Vanguard 2026: Forma
ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles House on a Hill At a time when formalism might be considered a dirty word in architecture, Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz contumaciously named their practice Forma. “This work is about rectangles,” says Markiewicz, “and about exploring their spatial and material efficiencies.” Despite their characterization of the work as hard-nosed formal exploration, the projects are often colorful, tactile, and, at times, exuberant.
Bermúdez Arquitectos Builds a Vertical Campus in Central Bogotá
“It looks like an alien walking around the city,” says Ramón Bermúdez, partner at Bermúdez Arquitectos in Bogotá, Colombia. But, rather than wreaking havoc, as in a giant-monster movie, the 16-story educational building that seems to have landed in the center of the sprawling South American metropolis is a result of its rapid growth and may offer a glimpse of more urban development to come. The 16-story vertical campus stands out among Bogotá’s low-lying buildings (above and top of page).
Ohio State Redesign Plan Could Threaten Part of the Eisenman-designed Wexner Center
Architecture News A proposed redesign of an entrance to the Ohio State University campus could mean a partial demolition of the Peter Eisenman–designed Wexner Center for the Arts. As reported by Columbus Underground, in a March 4, 2026, meeting of the Master Planning and Facilities Committee, the university approved $2.3 million for professional services for the design of 15th & High Arts Plaza, on the eastern edge of the campus.
Lake Flato Architects Designs an Art Gallery in a Small Texas Town
ProjectsBuildings by TypeMuseums & Art Centers Arthouse, Marble Falls, Texas. Architects & Firms Mickey Klein has lived what could be called the “Texas Dream.” Born to a family of modest means, Klein graduated with an engineering degree in 1958, and then went on to also study law. This education allowed him to quickly climb the ranks at the Continental Oil Company.
The Met Showcases Rare Medieval Architectural Drawings in ‘Gothic by Design’
Architecture NewsCommentary & CriticismOpinion Installation view of Gothic by Design, now on view at the Metropolian Museum of Art. Hans Holbein the Elder (German, ca. 1465–1524); Portrait of the Architect Mathes (Matthäus) Roriczer ca.
SO–IL Envisions a Cleveland Public Library as an Open Civic Platform
In the spring of 1967, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. visited Glenville High School in Cleveland’s East Side. He urged the students gathered there to commit themselves to education and to nonviolent organizing. The previous summer, the city had suffered through the Hough Riots, when long-simmering frustration with racial injustices boiled over, resulting in hundreds of fires being set, dozens of serious injuries, and four deaths.
Columbia University Mounts a Retrospective of Michael Sorkin’s Architectural Work
Architecture NewsCommentary & CriticismOpinion Installation view of People Cross Against the Light: Michael Sorkin’s New York at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. Michael Sorkin moved to Manhattan in 1973, just before New York City declared bankruptcy and President Ford told it to “drop dead.” He lived in the Greenwich Village home he shared with his wife, philosopher Joan Copjec, until his death from Covid in 2020.
CO Adaptive Conducts a Salvage Operation at Hunter College in New York City
Architects & Firms Construction will begin soon on the 2 million-square-foot Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC) at Hunter College’s Brookdale Campus in Manhattan. It will be the first major project to follow the city’s Circular Guidelines for Design and Construction, an operational toolkit published by New York City’s Economic Development Corporation for reducing waste and embodied carbon in the built environment.
DIGSAU and MJMA Design a Muscular Addition to Princeton’s Dillon Gymnasium
ProjectsBuildings by TypeColleges & Universities The Class of 1986 Fitness & Wellness Center/Dillon Gym at Princeton University by DIGSAU and MJMA. Princeton University is growing at an unprecedented pace. Not only is the undergraduate class of 2026 one of the largest in the New Jersey school’s nearly 300-year history, there’s also a building boom.
Near Seaside, Florida, Jennifer Bonner Designs a Rule-Bending House for Her Mother
ProjectsBuildings by TypeResidential ArchitectureHouse of the Month Kate’s House. The cliché is that architects get their first commission from their parents. For Jennifer Bonner, it was her second. Bonner founded MALL—which playfully stands for either Mass Architectural Loopty Loops or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—in 2009. Since then, the Alabama native has established a career exhibiting work internationally, lecturing widely, and writing.
A New Park by Gh3* Architecture and CCxA Aims to Revitalize Downtown Edmonton
ProjectsBuildings by TypeLandscape ArchitecturePark & Public Space Design O-day’min Park. It was snowing on the day of the ribbon cutting for O-day’min Park in Edmonton, Canada, last November. Known as the “Gateway to the North,” Alberta’s capital is the Western Hemisphere’s northernmost metropolis. Its residents are therefore no strangers to wintry weather, and the opening activities proceeded unhindered.
Snapshot: A Bulbous Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Pavilion Rises Along the Tennessee River
At a sharp bend where the Chattanooga Choo Choo chugs along the Tennessee River, the Wheland Foundry, an abandoned industrial site, marks the south end of 13 miles of trails connecting downtown to the Riverpark. While plans are in motion for redevelopment, the City of Chattanooga commissioned Moonrise, a bulbous Buckminster Fuller–inspired pavilion, to serve as the trailhead.
In Brooklyn, Woods Bagot Transforms an Abandoned 19th-Century College into Housing with Character
ProjectsBuildings by TypeAdaptive Reuse and RenovationMultifamily Housing Architecture The Hartby by Woods Bagot, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Architects & Firms Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, famous as the setting of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and home of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, also claims one of the largest collections of preserved Victorian-era buildings in the country.
In Belgium, an 18th-Century Religious Compound Becomes Home to the University of Hasselt’s Architecture School
ProjectsBuildings by TypeAdaptive Reuse and RenovationColleges & Universities Hasselt Beguinage, Belgium “We adopted a picturesque attitude” says London architect David Kohn, describing his competition-winning proposal, with Belgian firm Bovenbouw Architectuur, for a large-scale adaptive-reuse project in the Flemish city of Hasselt.
On a Sloping Site in Ontario, UUfie Extends the Roof of a Chalet to Create a Playful Retreat
ProjectsBuildings by TypeResidential ArchitectureWood ProjectsHouse of the Month Belfountain House. The concept diagram for the Belfountain House, a renovation and addition recently completed by Toronto-based UUfie (a 2017 Design Vanguard), depicts a simple house shape in section with a lengthened roofline on one side running parallel to the steeply sloping site. Scribbled trees overlap this extended portion indiscriminately, suggesting a coalescence with nature.
The Bard Graduate Center Mounts the First U.S. Exhibition of Viollet-le-Duc’s Expansive Drawing Practice
Architecture NewsOpinion Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus, south elevation of Notre-Dame de Paris, competition drawing, January 28, 1843. Watercolor on paper. Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie, Charenton-le-Pont, F/1996/83/-1840 The harrowing images of Notre-Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames, livestreamed around the world in April 2019, are still emblazoned on the public consciousness.
National Labor Relations Board Files Complaint Against Snøhetta
Architecture News The Hawks Pavilion (at right) at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, by Snøhetta. Last Friday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against the New York City office of Snøhetta. The NLRB filing, first reported by the New York Times, alleges the illegal termination of eight pro-union employees in the summer of 2023, following an unsuccessful organizing bid.
A Seven-Building Campus in Rural Uganda Becomes a Model for Constructing Off-Grid Medical Facilities
ProjectsBuildings by TypeHealth Care Design Kyabirwa Surgical Center. The goal is “to provide surgical care where it is impossible,” says George K. George, principal of GKG in New York City. Located on the banks of the Nile, in the rural Eastern Region of Uganda, the Kyabirwa Surgical Center is a prototype for a completely off-grid facility that offers a wide range of surgical, laboratory, and radiology services, as well as job training and education.
High Theory Meets High Holy Days in Preston Scott Cohen and BNIM’s Suburban Synagogue Expansion
ProjectsBuildings by TypeSpiritual Projects Congregation Beth Shalom. A windswept and wealthy suburb in the Kansas City metropolitan area might seem an unlikely setting for an architectural exploration of geometric concepts and the symbolic potential of form. But in Overland Park, Kansas, architect Preston Scott Cohen, a longtime professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has translated these theoretical issues from the typical diagram, essay, and installation into a rare built work.
The Ismaili Community Gets a New Home in Houston
Today, the perimeter of the site is ringed by a high wall, with the monumental complex—an amalgamation of boxy forms whose heft is softened by screen walls—sitting roughly in the center. Nine acres of public gardens, designed by landscape architects Nelson Byrd Woltz, cascade to its north and south. The perimeter walls, which will soon be covered by creeping fig, both help mitigate the intense traffic noise and pay homage to Persian walled gardens.
VMDO Architects Completes the First Phase of a Freshmen Housing Complex in the Heart of the UMiami Campus
Architects & Firms The commons, quad, lawn, or even arboretum—universities often have a central open green space that acts as a catalyst for campus life. Fittingly, and perhaps uniquely, the University of Miami in Coral Gables has Lake Osceola, a manmade inlet of Biscayne Bay, where the occasional crocodile gets adopted as the college’s unofficial temporary mascot.
WXY’s Expansion at a Prestigious Private School in New York Points to a Sustainable Future
Walking around Brooklyn Heights Historic District, flooded with cars and pedestrians spilling over from Downtown Brooklyn, it’s easy to pass one of the most prestigious private schools in the country without even realizing it. Packer Collegiate Institute doesn’t resemble a typical pre-K–12 educational campus, not even by New York standards.
Nevzat Sayın Designs a Hidden-Gem Space for One of Istanbul’s Leading Independent Art Galleries
ProjectsBuildings by TypeMuseums & Art Centers As in other cities around the world, two trends are colliding in Istanbul. In the Beyoğlu district, on the northern shore of the Golden Horn, an internationally acclaimed art scene is booming alongside the rapid gentrification of a formerly industrial area. In 2023, Renzo Piano debuted the new Istanbul Modern here.
AAmp Studio Adapts a 1960s Bank Building as a Luxury Hotel in Savannah’s Historic District
Architects & Firms Savannah, Georgia, is known more for its antebellum charm than its postwar chic. But, peppered among the Gothic Revival churches, Italianate mansions, and Neoclassical office buildings of the historic district, platted into a grid of lush subtropical squares and walkable blocks that accord with the 18th-century Oglethorpe plan, one finds the rectilinear volumes and gridded facades of 20th-century modernist architecture.
EYRC Architects’ Gallery Expansion at Arizona’s Cocopah Museum Becomes a Lesson in Resourcefulness
ProjectsBuildings by TypeMuseums & Art Centers The West Cocopah Indian Reservation, population 1,025, is the southwest of the American Southwest. Any farther south, or even farther west, is Mexico. Along the Colorado River, tucked below Yuma, Arizona—known as the sunniest place on Earth—the Cocopah Museum and Cultural Center inaugurated a new gallery space designed by Los Angeles–based firm Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (formerly Ehrlich Architects).
National Academy of Design Announces Latest Cohort of Inductees
Architecture News The National Academy of Design in New York announced on Tuesday its National Academicians Class of 2025. Founded in 1825 as the nation’s first artist- and architect-led organization for the promotion of design, the National Academy marks its 200th anniversary this year with the election of 27 individuals. Each year, the current members nominate and elect new Academicians to become part of the honorary society’s community, which is capped at 500 living members.
British architect Nicholas Grimshaw Dies at 85
Architecture News Architect Nicholas Grimshaw died on Sunday, September 14, 2025, at the age of 85. Remembered as a pioneer of the British High-Tech movement and as a peer of prominent architects such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano, in his nearly 60-year career, Grimshaw explored the poetic intersection of engineering and architectural form and built a legacy of audacious and unmistakable structures. His death was announced by Grimshaw’s namesake firm, which he led until 2019.
Museum of Brutalist Architecture to Open at London’s Acland Burghley School
Architecture News The world’s first museum devoted entirely to Brutalist architecture has been announced and is set to open in a secondary school in North London in 2027. The Acland Burghley School, designed by Howell Killick Partridge & Amis and completed in 1968, was chosen for the Museum of Brutalist Architecture (MoBA), in part, because it is one of the last remaining Brutalist school buildings in the United Kingdom.
Kim Förster Challenges the Accepted Mythology of the Insitute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New Book
Weighing in at 3 pounds, more than 2 inches thick, and a whopping 584 pages, Kim Förster’s new book, Building Institution, contends with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) and the roster of architectural heavyweights it produced.
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