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Sturdy Designs from Studio Sumo

The Long Island City-based architecture firm eschews signature design in favor of an inquisitive approach
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Thinking Outside the Box

The astonishing structural engineering of Arup's Cecil Balmond
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A World of Light and Glass

Architect James Carpenter is known for startling designs that make the invisible visible. Now two New York towers that bear his mark are going up
Slide Show: Lightening Up Landmark Buildings

 

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Airport Design Takes Off

With global terrorism, environmental concerns, and increasing numbers of passengers, airports must change to meet new needs

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From Towers to Dishes

Judging from Gregory Klosowski's lineage -- his father was a machinist; his grandfather, a mason -- it is not much of a stretch to imagine him leaning toward a career within a craft-oriented field. MORE >

Cruz Finds Solutions for Border Living

The San Diego architect and his firm are designing affordable housing for immigrants in a California border town MORE >

The Reluctant Starchitect

Joshua Prince-Ramus separates from OMA to form a new firm and he's sure of REX's ability to attract clients without the Koolhaas star magnet MORE >

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Sometimes Gehry Does Come for Free

The esteemed architect will design the Pasadena Playhouse pro bono

High-Rise Research

Sloan-Kettering's new cancer-research center finds extra room in the uptown Manhattan sky

Busan, South Korea to Have Tallest Tower in Asia

New York City-based architects, Asymptote, thinking tall with their design for the Millennium Tower World Business Center

New Orleans: The Wealthiest City of the Caribbean

The building culture that created the original city must be reinstated

Boston Decrees Green Building a Must

All new construction projects over 50,000 square feet have to qualify for LEED status. Other cities are following suit

Organic Food Merits Green Design

Recycled materials create an appealing atmosphere in a San Francisco Slow Food restaurant

Green Homes: The Price Still Isn't Right

Buyers are declining environmentally friendly features. That may change

An Office So Green It's Platinum

TVS Interiors achieved LEED's highest rating for an innovatively designed, green-thinking carpet showroom in Atlanta

Harnessing the Wind Power of the Highway

How many speeding cars does it take to power a lightbulb? Not such a stupid question—just ask GE

LEED Rules Combat Carbon Emissions

New rules target energy efficiency for new commercial buildings

The Path to Platinum

After 25 years spent practicing sustainable architecture, BNIM earns the highest rating under LEED—a tool the Kansas City firm's own efforts helped to create
Slide Show: BNIM Buildings Green the Midsection

Smart Solutions for Global Warming

From geothermal to biomass, Israeli energy pioneer Ormat Industries is advancing alternative and renewable energies around the world

Redefining the Urban Jungle

Thanks to French botanist Patrick Blanc, Plant Walls—vertical gardens attached to hotels and museums—are sprouting up in cities worldwide
Slide Show: Teaching Gardens to Climb

A Geothermal House

An 8,000 square foot house outside of Boston brings the outdoors in and the indoors out
Slide Show: Here Comes the Sun House

Alternative Energy, Continental Style

Europe's commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is leading to more interest in solar, wind, and wave power-and even nuclear plants

Tax Incentives Go Green

The federal government and several states are offering credits to encourage sustainable development

Transparent Science

A genomic-research center for Harvard and MIT reflects the latest trends in university science buildings

Architects Go Back to School

Rising to the design challenge of creating safe, efficient and inspiring environments for children

Hungary Bets on Design

The Hungarian government creates a National Design Center in a bid to attract design-conscious international manufacturing

Urban Regeneration Plans for Lebanon

Developers are in an ambitious construction drive to recreate Beirut

Local Color

Non-profit California Endowment gets a very suitable new HQ

Denver's School for the 21st Century

At a new public charter school focused on science and technology, the building earns an A

Combining Local With Global

The Bercy Chen architecture firm deliberately crosses language and cultural barriers
Slide Show: Design Vanguard: Bercy Chen Studio

Tools of the Imagination

Building information modeling software from Autodesk and Gehry Technologies is gaining traction with architects and their collaborators

Let There Be Light

Norman Foster's University of Toronto building animates the city after dark

Giving New Meaning to the Concept "Urban Jungle"

Located in the Amazonian rainforest, Manaus is a 1.5 million-person industrial city. Now Brazilian authorities are attempting a makeover

Saving History in a City of the Future

An international gathering of architects, artists, and students attempts to preserve the culture of a unique Tokyo neighborhood

Stanley Tigerman: Architecture's Social Conscience

Q&A with the Chicago-based architect

The New Player in the Skyscraper Game

After nearly 40 years at SOM, where he designed some of the world's tallest buildings, Adrian Smith is striking out on his own

America's Go-To Architect

How Renzo Piano has quietly become one of the world's foremost, most prolific architects

Workplace Matters

As Chief Architect of the GSA, Leslie Shepherd controls a $12 billion construction budget. And his focus is on sustainability within office environments

Representing the U.S. and Staying Secure

Suman Sorg has designed official facilities in Sri Lanka, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. She talks about building in a war zone and other challenges

Anish Kapoor Reflects Life in New York

Following on from the popularity of his installation in Chicago's Millennium Park, Kapoor takes on NYC

Living the Good Life

Zoë Ryan, senior curator of the Van Alen Institute, describes a vast new show celebrating recreation and public spaces

Go Team!

HOK Sport's Dennis Wellner describes his partnership with Peter Eisenman on the design of the new Arizona Cardinals stadium in Phoenix

Drop in the Bucket

The number of housing initiatives under way in New Orleans falls well short of the urgent need

Major Developments in Los Angeles

Gehry and L.A. River project get the $4 billion go-ahead

A Crowning Achievement

SPaN Architects create a suitably sleek dental office for the founder of GoSMILE

Why Good Architecture Matters

Because buildings collapse, as just happened to a Rafael Viñoly design in Pittsburgh

Empire State Building is America's Favorite

A new poll reveals the architecture cherished by the nation

Not Everyone Loves the Gates Foundation

City officials raise concerns over the impact of the Foundation HQ on Seattle

New Model Architect

The U.S. has 300 million people and countless buildings but only two major professional architecture magazines. Now veteran editor, Ned Cramer, launches a new title, Architect

Searching for the Future

Large-scale change is sweeping the world. Now it's time to wake up and look at what's going on

Fighting the Urban Sprawl

In the Netherlands, SeARCH seeks architectural solutions to long-standing urban problems
Slide Show: Design Vanguard: SeARCH

Berlin Train Station Derailed

Clashes between architect and client have led to a high profile court case in Germany. The real losers? The passengers

The New New MoMA Extension

Citing a strong real estate market, the museum has sold a vacant lot to develop an additional 50,000 square feet of exhibition space

Chicago Wants the 2016 Olympics

The Second City wants to host the Games in 2016 and local graphic designers, VSA Partners, designed a clever logo to help make their case

Welcome to the Glass House

Philip Johnson's Glass House opens to the public next April. The curators are linking its fabled, infamous past with a vibrant future
Slide Show: Philip Johnson's Glass House

Roofs Paved with Green

Pollutant-filtering plants embedded into paving stones are set to change the skyline in the Bronx

Down-to-Earth Spaceship Design

British design firm Seymourpowell came up with the concept interiors for Virgin Galactic's spaceship. Still, they say design isn't rocket science
Video Slide Show: 2009: A Space Odyssey
Slide Show: Seymourpowell's Design Fantasyland

Chipotle: Fast Food with 'Integrity'

Steve Ells, founder of the red-hot Mexican-food chain, on his aim to make the focused menu as all-natural as possible, and why it's worth the expense

Software That Will This Sentence Fix

Israel-based WhiteSmoke has devised a program that, by checking against a vast database, makes English text more fluent. Its top market? The U.S.

Why Advertisers Still Don't Get It

It's time to remember that advertising needs brands more than the brands need advertising. A good product creates its own relationships