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First he added gold trim to the Oval Office. Then he added two large flagpoles to the White House grounds and paved over the lawn of the famous Rose Garden. Now US President Donald Trump is set to build a 90,000-square foot, $200 million ballroom where the East Wing now stands.
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will transform the historic Birkenstock Campus in Marin County, California, into “a world-class art and design museum” for the nonprofit Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which advances the legacy of famed husband-and-wife designers...
Established in 1984, the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahbedabad was designed by Balkrishna Doshi, who worked out of his Ahmedabad studio, Sangath, until his death in 2023. Doshi's legacy is being carried out, in part,
Architecton is the third installment in Victor Kossakovsky's “A” trilogy—following Vivan las Antipodas! (2011) and Aquarela (2018)—which finds the Russian filmmaker exploring humanity's place on the Earth. The 2024 documentary oscillates between hypnotic slow-motion...
In late June, the Concéntrico festival took place in Logroño, Spain, featuring a number of temporary pavilions and events structured around four curatorial themes. One pavilion addressing the theme of water is the Round About Baths, designed by
Estudio ALA's project for a mezcal distillery, or palenque, in the Mexican state of Michoacan includes production areas, worker dining areas, and recreational spaces. The programmatic spaces are shaded by generous roofs supported by mass timber and integrated into the natural topography...
The first episode of Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage, a 12-part documentary series by FORT: LA (Friends Of Residential Treasures: LA) “about seven architects who defined the freewheeling West Coast aesthetic,” is now free to watch online.
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2025 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.
In the Raval neighborhood, one of the most densely populated and culturally diverse areas of Barcelona's old town, MIAS Architects has carried out the comprehensive renovation of an existing residential...
Johanna Deinet and her K&L Architekten team, Saikal Zhunushova and Andy Senn all design buildings that get by without complex air conditioning technology. Even on hot summer days, constructive solar shading elements such as shutters and blinds keep their low-tech buildings cool.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower opened in MoMA’s street-level galleries on July 10. The small exhibition documents Kisho Kurokawa's groundbreaking residential project located in Tokyo’s Ginza District from 1972 until 2022, through dozens of artifacts, an interactive virtual...
The aptly named Ts VEIL is a social dining space in Ho Chi Minh City spread across three floors behind a draped metal mesh facade. Sitting on a corner parcel in a dense neighborhood, the facade veils a structure that is an assemblage of new and old. Architect Khoa Vu answered a few questions...
Estimated annual costs for fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and upkeep for Koru—the world’s largest sailing yacht, at 417 feet (127m)—owned by Amazon...
The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until November. It is the first major survey of Fujimoto's work. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition, sending us photos of some of the many models, videos, sketches,...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the FBI will be moving its headquarters from the brutalist J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to the neoclassical Ronald Reagan Building, also in DC, the former home of the shuttered USAID.
Ma Yansong, who runs his global studio, MAD Architects, out of offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, and Rome, is one of the most distinctive artistic voices in China. He spoke to Vladimir Belogolovsky about his just-opened Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative...
Last month, the nineteen shortlisted projects competing for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were revealed. The Aga Khan Trust Development Network (AKDN) has uploaded...
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) was held at the Estonian Museum of Architecture last October and November under the theme “Resources for a Future,” as developed by head curator
In our “Healing Architecture” series, we examine the quality of stay in healthcare buildings, focusing on the creation of spaces that actively support recovery.
Zhaoyang Architects from Dali, the provincial capital of Yunnan, has been building in rural areas for many years. The project presented here was created for the...
Number of nights fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) stayed in his 600-m2 (6,450-sf) “Villa Louveciennes”...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.
A staunch opponent of modern architecture, Léon Krier designed mixed-use urban neighborhoods where everything was within walking distance. The traditionalist was a leading figure of postmodernism, but a lavish book on Albert Speer's architecture brought him into disrepute.
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
Jim Cutler, principal at Bainbridge, Washington's Cutler Anderson Architects, gives Architectural Digest a tour of a now 12-year-old house in Newberg, Oregon, that he designed so it is one with the old pond that it straddles.
Although “summer reads” have been a thing for a long time, books about architecture don’t tend to populate lists of books to be taken on holiday. Most architecture books are big and heavy, academic rather than narrative. Novels with strong architectural elements strike a good balance, and in...
Foster + Partners has been selected to design the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Park, London, beating out Heatherwick Studio, WilkinsonEyre, and other shortlisted firms.
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Naim dropped by the minimalist studio of T.ZED Architects in Dubai for a tour with founder Tarik Zaharna, getting a closer look at the practice ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy few years.
As its name indicates, this affordable housing project in Beaverton—a community within the the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario—was built with modular, prefabricated systems. Built by NRB, a Canadian company that specialized in modular construction, Durham Modular Transitional Housing...
Number of flats in China that stood dormant at the end of last year, even as the problem faced in the “tier-one” cities of Beijing, Shanghai,...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. Speaking in his Tokyo studio, Yamamoto speaks about his upbringing, education, influences, travels, and...
During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day for Young Talent, June 19, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category, and the recipient of the Young...
One year after the tenth MPavilion, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, extended its run in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens for an additional year, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the structure will remain in place for five more years—until 2030.
Although the winner of the design competition for Finland’s New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki won't be announced until September, the public can weigh in on the developed proposals from the five anonymous finalists.
Under the thematic focus “Ready Made,” the 2025 OBEL Award has been awarded to HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit and European Citizens’ Initiative aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new...