Preservation Nation
Is landmarking a shield or a sword in the fight against overdevelopment?

Photo: © Jorge Salcedo

ASM International World Headquarters
Cleveland-based historic property developer The Chesler Group helped return a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome and the John Terence Kelly office building underneath it to its 1959 glory.

Photo: © Jeff Goldberg/Esto

Schools of the 21st Century
The best new design for K-12 schools, as well as building products and a look at green school initiatives in the U.S.

Photo © Niklaus Spoerri

Book Reviews
RECORD weighs in on new architecture titles from surveys and monographs to history and theory texts.

Design Vanguard 2011
Introducing ten emerging firms shaping the future of design.

Pictured: Studio for a Composer; Photo © John J. Macaulay

Occupied Spaces
In cities across the globe, public plazas have become platforms for vocal—and visible—political dissent.

Photo © AP Photo/Ben Curtis

America's Best Architecture Schools 2012
DesignIntelligence’s annual “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools” rankings are just out. Featured here are the top M.Arch. and B.Arch. programs.

Under the California Sun, Architecture Blossomed
Five Los Angeles cultural institutions shed new light on mid-20th-century design efforts.

Photo © Lane Barden

Flights of Fancy
Four firms apply bold materials to elevate modest surroundings.

Photo © Iwan Baan

Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2011
Announcing the winner of our second annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch contest.

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Prizes sponsored by

Drawing by Zeljko Toncic

The Death and Life of a Great American City
This special section of our web site is unabashedly devoted to New York City. We are not just commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11. We want to give the city its due as a 21st-century design capital.

Photo © Iwan Baan

Empty Sky
When the National September 11 Memorial opens at Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, it will be joined by another commemorative effort, across the Hudson River, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Dubbed “Empty Sky,” this monument by Frederic Schwartz Architects honors the 744 men and women who hailed from the state and lost their lives on 9/11.

Photo © David Sundberg/Esto

Teshima Art Museum
A one-room gallery on a remote Japanese island behaves like a work of art.

Photo © Iwan Baan

Hejduk's Little-Known Jewel
One of the late architect's few built works, the Social Center in Trisca is a mini Flatiron building in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Photo © Alan Karchmer

We announce the winners of our Show Us Your RECORD Collection contest.

Photo by James R. Kirkpatrick

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Steilneset Memorial to the Victims of the Witch Trials
A Collaboration Between an Architect and an Artist Results in an Intriguing Two-Part Memorial in Norway.

Photo © Matilda McQuaid

Ghost Lab 2011
This summer, Halifax architect Brian MacKay-Lyons turned his annual design-build workshop on the rugged Nova Scotia coast into a conference for his like-minded peers.

Photo © Cherish Rosas

Good Desıgn Is Good Business
The 13th edition of our awards honoring design’s affect on the bottom line.

Photo © Margharita Spilluttini

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Record Reveals: New Orleans
In this special section dedicated to design in New Orleans, we explore the past, present, and future of the city's singular built environment.

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Photo © Eric Pancer

Designing for the Toughest Client: Yourself
Designing their own houses, architects know the project must serve as both a home and a calling card.

Photo © Cristobal Palma

Beauty and the Book
Libraries in the digital age raise questions about the place of books.

Photo courtesy Austrian National Library

Aga Khan Award
We profile the five winning projects.

Pictured: Bridge School; Photo © Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Architecture at a Crossroads
Buffeted by economic uncertainty, globalization, and disruptive technologies, architects today have more questions than answers. Where are we headed? How can we position ourselves for future success?

Photo © Jason Frank Rothenberg

Schools of the 21st Century
Product reviews, ten case studies, and more articles focused on K-12 school design.

Photo © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing

Building Blocks: Humanitarian Design and Schools
Architecture, when done well, can improve lives. And perhaps no building typology better exemplifies this transformative power than schools — the place where young minds are nurtured, where future leaders are reared.

Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

For Use/Numen's Packing Tape Installation
The Austrian-Croatian firm For Use/Numen have created a hollow, biomorphic space using a web of packing tape.

Photo © For Use/Numen

New Songdo City
KPF leads the team behind this emerging city built from the ground up in South Korea.

Rendering courtesy KPF

After being deluged with 1,322 cocktail napkins bearing sketches from 352 architects and architecture students, ARCHITECTURAL RECORD’s jury of editors has determined the winner of its first annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest.

Image courtesy Truc Dang Manh Nguyen

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Pas de Deux
Santiago Calatrava and New York City Ballet director Peter Martins choreograph a convergence of dance and architecture that demonstrates the synergy between their two disciplines.

Bilbao Effect at the Ballet
Can an architect’s celebrity draw audiences to dance performances?

Photo courtesy The New York City Ballet

With millions watching the World Cup, the spotlight is on South Africa—and the stadiums commissioned for the games.

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and Chinese architect Ma Yansong combine light, fog, and architecture in a new project.

Photo © Sebastian Behmann

A bold urban strategy transforms a worn beachfront into a vivid curvilinear plaza.

Photo © Alejo Bague

Read live coverage of this year's AIA convention and explore the host city.

Every year, these awards provide a rough outline of architectural culture in the U.S. We spotlight all of the winners.

Pictured: Peter Bohlin’s Forest House / Photo © Michael Thomas

An exhibition of drawings, rare books, and models devoted to Palladio’s architecture and his influence prompted an interview with several representatives of the Royal Institute of British Architecture who were involved in mounting the show.

Image courtesy Royal Institute of British Architecture

Houses by three Modernist masters — Breuer, Neutra, and Schindler — present different challenges to new architects.

Photo © Paul Warchol Photography

Frank Gehry “Demystified”
The building team working on New York City’s tallest residential tower uses collaboration and digital tools to produce famed architect’s most expansive draped façade.

Photo © Michael Falco

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity looks past Bauhaus orthodoxy to reveal a something messier, more complex, and more fun.

Photo © Scott Rudd

This year our annual assessment of new education design focuses on urban public schools.

Pictured: Booker T. Washington High School; Photo © Helene Binet

Good Design Is Good Business
The winners of the 2009 BusinessWeek / Architectural Record Awards reveal that successful architecture is more than a grand gesture.

Photo © Iwan Baan

Innovation Blog
Architectural Record and GreenSource presented our annual Innovation Conference on October 7th and 8th. Read our editors’ responses to selected talks below:

• John Straube: Enlightening, if Chilling
• Hot Topic, Cool Ideas: Next-Generation HVAC Systems at 2009 Innovation Conference
• Colin Harrison: What Does IBM Have to Do with Cities?

View a full lineup of speakers here

Embassy designers face the apparent, maybe even inherent, contradiction between the democratic ideal of an open building designed to portray a transparent society, and the security restrictions that virtually jail diplomats in safety. We look at two projects in light of this tension.

Photo courtesy Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Stunning new galleries update interiors for the museum world’s old
guard.

Photo © Roos Aldershoff

An Unsung Modernist Master: RECORD’s editor in chief Robert Ivy, FAIA, talks with Ray Kappe, FAIA, a master of California Midcentury Modernism who has shown resilience in recent years, adapting to advances in prefabrication and sustainable building. Read the interview, view images of Kappe’s work, and take a video tour of his house.

Photo courtesy Charles Jencks

Working with existing structures to create histories or execute full program shifts requires a mix of historical, technical, and even ecological knowledge. Our Preservation and Adaptive Reuse section examines the state of historic preservation in the U.S., as well as exemplary projects that bring new life to old structures, and the building technologies that make it possible.

Photomontage © Margaret Riegel

RECORD’s guide to San Francisco, the host city of the 2009 American Institute of Architects national convention, features profiles of important Bay-Area projects, information for visitors, and more. Check back for regular updates, and beginning April 30th, live coverage of the event.

Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks’s Garden of Scottish Worthies
American theorist, architect, and (increasingly) landscape architect Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick created a 30-acre garden on a Scottish family estate that engages both the mind and the senses.

Photo courtesy Charles Jencks

This month, RECORD is focusing on people and projects that merge design with social responsibility. We profile firms at the forefront of humanitarian design, hold a design invitational for refugee housing, host a roundtable discussion about community-focused design-build programs, and more.

Photo © Werner Huthmacher

This summer, all eyes are on Beijing, and RECORD has put together a special section of our site dedicated to the city. View and comment on high-profile projects, browse photographs and post your own, read Beijing recommendations from people who know the city, and more.

Photo © Jennifer Richter

SOM’s Carl Galioto and Paul Seletsky on BIM
Carl Galioto, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s partner-in-charge of the firm’s New York Technical Group, and Paul Seletsky, SOM’s director of digital design, are two of the architecture profession’s leading experts on building information modeling. The pair discuss how BIM facilitated a major redesign of the Freedom Tower; address common misperceptions; explain BIM’s potential benefits for smaller practices; point out how BIM can lead to increased compensation; and lay out the potential ramifications of BIM on the architect’s overall role in the realization of buildings.

Image © dbox Studio

AIA Convention: Boston
We explore Boston, the host city of the 2008 national convention for the American Institute of Architects. Read about must-see buildings, recent projects, and the best places to dine. Watch videos, view slide shows, listen to podcasts, and contribute your own images to our Boston Photo Showcase. Also, RECORD editors will blog live from the convention, held May 15 to 17.

Photo © Bryant Rousseau

The AIA will recognize the recipients of the 2008 Honor Awards during its national convention in Boston. View winning projects in three categories: Architecture, Interiors, and Regional/Urban Design. Also, read about the winners of the 25 Year Award (Richard Meier's The Atheneum), the Firm of the Year (KieranTimberlake Associates), and the Gold Medal (Renzo Piano).

Photo © Jeff Weiner

BusinessWeek/Architectural Record 2008 China Awards
In 2006, we introduced the BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Awards program to China on a biannual basis. This year, we honor 13 building and planning projects ranging in size from a small house in Hong Kong to an 860,000-square-meter, mixed-use development near the center of Beijing. We also selected as best client a real-estate developer that has made design an essential part of its business strategy.

True Green
Given the growing concern about sustainability, it’s a good time to look back to the originating seeds of green, to the anarchic 1960s and Bucky Fuller’s philosophy of doing more with less.

Photo © Jack Fulton

New Museum of Contemporary Art
Having developed a reputation for exquisitely refined buildings, SANAA faced a very different kind of challenge with the New Museum in Lower Manhattan: Design a building for an anti-establishment museum in a scruffy-but-gentrifying part of town. Our Web coverage includes a slide show and video tour, along with a story about the project, a detailed analysis of the building’s structure, and a profile on leading engineer Mutsuro Sasaki.

Photo © Christian Richters

The New York Times Building
Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE present a quietly luminous addition to the Manhattan skyline with The New York Times Building. See images, view videos and read stories about the $1 billion project.

Photo © David Sundberg/Esto

New Video Series: My New York
In our latest video feature, we explore New York with noted architects, critics, artists, and others with impassioned opinions about architecture. They comment on buildings they love, hate or feel are critical to the context of the city’s built environment. Our “tour guides” include Robert Ivy, editor in chief of Architectural Record; noted artist Dennis Oppenheim; and Bruce Fowle, senior principal of FXFowle Architects.

Journal Entries from Kuala Lumpur
Robert Ivy, RECORD's editor-in-chief, recently traveled to Kuala Lumpur for the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. He recorded his impressions of the event, diary-style, and also took a number of photographs, which we feature in a slideshow.

Photo: Bob Ivy

Topped/Tapped Out
The skyscraper has had more comebacks than Cher. From its humble, naive beginnings in Chicago after the fire of 1871; its idealistic representation in early European Modernism; its apex as the glam symbol of American corporate eminence; its bimbo phase in Postmodernism; its more recent dalliance with high-tech engineering; and culminating with its supposed demise on September 11, 2001, the skyscraper is one helluva contender.

Photo: Courtesy SOM

The Engineer's Moment
A shift in the architecture profession, already entrenched with issues of control and authorship, affords the engineer an expanded role during initial project design discussions, not just as consultants after the fact. Structural engineers like Chris Wise—formerly of Arup, now at Expedition Engineering—are literally drawing at the table, which is how he explains his collaboration at Arup with Norman Foster’s office on London’s Millennium Bridge.

Photo: Courtesy North Carolina State Fair Division

Between baby boomers pushing 60, and over-the-hill hospitals in need of a makeover, the demand for healthcare buildings couldn’t be healthier.  To meet your need for information about them, we’ve created this Record Review Health Care section.

Pictured: Johns Hopkins Hospital; Image courtesy Perkins + Will

Philip Johnson's Glass House: An Essay in Timelessness
A classic example of Modern architecture is spiffed up for its public debut.

An Architectural Record Contest
The Philip Johnson Glass House Guessing Game
Win the book, Glass House, edited by Toshio Nakamura, photographs by Michael Moran  (Monacelli, 2007, $95.00).

Photo © Arnold Neuman/Getty Images

Peter Marino's Brand Buildings
The New York architect combines respect for the past with a brand's essence in store designs for such luxury names as Dior and Vuitton.

Pictured: The exterior of the Chanel store in Tokyo. Photo: © Takashi Orii

Video Tour of a Chinese Town
Two noted Chinese video artists, On Ning (who trained as an architect) and Cao Fei, take us on an avant-garde, improvisatory tour of a Chinese town, San Yuan Li.

Video Tour of Kyotofu Restaurant
We visit a new Japanese dessert café in Manhattan with a unique, Minimalist façade and an interior that manages to be both ultra-modern and warmly inviting. The owners and the architect also discuss with us the impact that the strong design will have on the business’s bottom line.

The Schools of the 21st Century Web site was created for those who believe that the quality of our school buildings is directly related to the quality of education we give the students who occupy them.

Pictured: Sidwell Friends Middle School; Photo © Barry Halkin

After the Flood: An exhibition presenting proposals for replacement housing and redevelopment in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Click here for our Venice Biennale 2004 coverage

Welcome to RECORD's special site dedicated to the unrestrained, talented, and innovative architects who call Los Angeles home. With podcasts, interviews, and an informal design guide, the site will give you an inside look at the people who make L.A. a nucleus of thought-provoking design. Read on.

Best of China: Check out the 16 winners of the first BusinessWeek/ Architectural Record China Awards, as well as news and other features on architecture in China.

Plus, visit our 2004 China issue, winner of a Neal Award for "Best Single Issue of a Magazine" Be sure to check out our accompanying Web site coverage.

Innovation: This special section covers our annual Innovation conference held in New York City. Discover the featured projects that involve collaboration, technological sophistication, and attention to sustainability. We also include exclusive articles on building technology, products, and technology briefs. Be innovative.