Architecture

March 13, 2007

Japan: Micro-Homes in the Big City

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 ...

November 28, 2007

2007 Architecture Awards

When Barry Diller hired Frank Gehry to design the New York headquarters of his company, InterActiveCorp (IACI), he was hoping to create a brand as much as a building. ...

November 28, 2007

InterActiveCorp Headquarters

New YorkGehry Partners/STUDIOS ArchitectureInteractiveCorpAward of Excellence Many have likened this 10-story structure, started in June, 2004, and completed last ...

November 28, 2007

Young Center for the Performing Arts

TorontoKuwabara Payne McKenna Blumerg ArchitectsSoulpepper Theater Co./George Brown College Theater SchoolAward of Excellence Uniting a college drama department and a ...

November 28, 2007

United States Census Bureau Headquarters

Suitland, Md. Skidmore, Owings & MerrillGeneral Services AdministrationAward of Excellence Government buildings are often boxy, cheap, and boring, designed more for ...

November 28, 2007

Navy Federal Credit Union

Heritage Oaks Center,Building OnePensacola, Fla.ASDNavy Federal Credit UnionAward of Excellence When Navy Federal Credit Union executives realized they needed to ...

November 28, 2007

The Gardiner Museum

TorontoKuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg ArchitectsGardiner MuseumCitation for Excellence Canada's only museum devoted entirely to ceramics, the Gardiner Museum reopened...

November 28, 2007

Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts

TorontoDiamond + Schmitt ArchitectsCanadian Opera CompanyCitation for Excellence The Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts, the new home of the Canadian Opera ...

November 28, 2007

SJ Berwin

LondonHOKSJ BerwinCitation for Excellence SJ Berwin is a large, growing law firm with its headquarters in London and nine offices throughout Europe. After 25 years in ...

November 28, 2007

San Diego Padres Ballpark/Petco Park

San Diego, Ca.Antoine Predock Architect/HOK SportsSan Diego Padres Baseball Club/City of San DiegoCitation for Excellence Home to the San Diego Padres since April ...

November 28, 2007

Hubbell Lighting Headquarters

Greenville, S.C.McMillan Smith & PartnersHubbell LightingCitation for Excellence Only one building in this year's collection is home to a design company. For lighting ...

November 28, 2007

Hearst Tower

New YorkFoster + Partners/GenslerHearstCitation for Excellence Foster + Partners' design for a stainless-steel-clad, diagrid structure has given the Hearst Corporation...

December 4, 2008

The Best Business Architecture of 2008

As commercial construction falls deeper into recession, it seems fitting that the winners of this year's BusinessWeek/Architectural Record awards show the payoffs of ...

November 13, 2007

Incredible New Feats of Concrete

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 ...

April 24, 2007

Material for an Architectural Revolution

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

Go Team!

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

Prime Time

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

Saving History in a City of the Future

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

China's Global Beacon

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

Let There Be Light

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 ...

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