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November 13, 2007
Concrete is ubiquitous in the modern world, yet most people don't give it a passing thought. Why would they? It may be the most consumed substance on earth after ...
March 13, 2007
Small has always been beautiful in Japan, whether you think of the mini-component audio systems the country pioneered in the 1970s, its cultural love affair with ...
April 24, 2007
Imagine a swimming arena made out of bubbles. Or a stadium knit from steel girders like a bird's nest. Or even an enormous tent, proudly covering over a million square...
August 23, 2006
Since Dennis Wellner cofounded HOK Sport in 1983, the Kansas City–based subsidiary of HOK has become one of the world’s largest designers of sports ...
August 30, 2006
Slide Show >> “Our clients like the idea that we can work in so many different disciplines,” says Adam Farmerie, a partner in New York design firm AvroKO. ...
December 5, 2006
The urban fabric of Tokyo has an almost surreal quality to it. A highway slices through a warren of pedestrian streets crowded with low-rise wooden buildings that ...
December 13, 2006
In our age of roving capital and global tourism, cities yearn to distinguish themselves as places to visit and invest in. For some that means excavating a rich past or...
December 15, 2006
When the sun goes down and the lights go up, the Leslie L. Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Building comes alive. Situated on a major downtown corner of the University of ...
December 18, 2006
Over the centuries, Western architecture has had its movements—Gothic, Beaux Arts, International Style. Indeed, over the past decade new design and construction ...
December 20, 2006
"Architecture is a strange animal. It's equal parts art, science, and business," says Susan Piedmont-Palladino, a curator at the National Building Museum in ...
December 26, 2006
Portland, Oregon. Seattle, Washington. Vancouver, British Columbia. In these three Pacific NorthÂwest cities, the progressive power of urban planning is taken very ...
December 28, 2006
Call me Mr. NIMBY. That’s right. I never thought it would happen to me. I’ve been staunchly laissez-faire about development ever since I moved to New York ...
January 23, 2007
There's a memorable scene in the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me if You Can. Leonardo DiCaprio, as a Pan Am pilot, is striding through an airport, trailed by a ...
July 11, 2007
"Starchitects" like Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano may dominate the headlines. But it's the super-firms that dominate the global building industry. Rampant mergers and ...
July 9, 2007
Some things in life are supposed to be pretty. Flowers are supposed to be pretty. Eastern European swimsuit models are supposed to be pretty. Overpriced Italian sports...
March 29, 2006
Slide Show >> Italy has always been a top destination for anyone wanting to see wonders of architecture. It's home to innovative structures, built during ancient ...
March 15, 2007
At 10:30 on a Friday morning in February, Cameron Sinclair dropped two heavy bags onto the floor and sank onto the leather banquette at Balthazar, the bustling New ...
May 7, 2007
Peter Gluck sits on the couch of his office loft recalling the house that "broke his back." In the working environment of that project, the tensions between his ...
November 2, 2006
I’ve always loved the kind of novels that offer an alternative view of the present, where the plot is predicated on one key event in history playing out ...
November 9, 2006
For Ole Scheeren, the lead architect of the controversial new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing, the "eureka" moment came during a site visit in ...
