Photo © Paul Warchol Photography
Houston can be a free-for-all when it comes to architecture. But this townhouse complex, designed by Houston-raised and New York-based architect Francois de Menil, provides a sculptural solution to a difficult site and program.
Photo © Timothy Hursley
For architects, community centers often call for sensible design on a modest budget. What these projects lack in glamour, they make up for in relevance to people’s lives. We look at 12 standout projects, including the 5.4.7 Arts Center in tornado-stricken Greensburg, Kansas, and the Gentry Public Library in Gentry, Arkansas (pictured).
Image courtesy ttlens / © Roger Wade
This week, our favorite images include a Wyoming residential project, a photographer’s shot of a 17th-centruy architectural detail, and more selections from our new Vernacular Architecture gallery.
Image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Join us October 7-8 for Architectural Record’s sixth annual Innovation Conference, where we will study net zero-energy buildings. The program features a series of case studies and a roster of notable speakers, including professor Daniel Nocera of MIT on bio-inspired energy and architect Christoph Ingenhoven on sustainable design.
If you haven’t visited our video library, you’re missing dozens of clips designed to inform, inspire and, yes, entertain you: Interviews with leading architects. Building tours hosted by top designers. Episodes of Good Design Is Good Business. And much more.
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Photo © Jonathan Becker
In our new weekly series of Newsmaker interviews, we speak with people making headlines in the architecture world. New this week: a conversation with Charles Gwathmey. His firm recently completed a renovation of and addition to Yale University’s Art and Architecture building. |
Photo courtesy McCall Design Group
The notion that architecture firms have an ethical obligation to provide services pro bono is gaining wide-spread acceptance. Here’s how some firms are making the most of the experience.
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Photo © Alan Karchmer
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.
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Photo © Nicolás Cabrera Andrade
Putting the computer aside, socially minded architects rely on age-old construction techniques and readily available building materials to create structures for those in desperate need.
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Photo © Kozo Takayama
Our annual survey of remarkable interiors includes 14 projects for which materials matter: A downtown Milwaukee bar by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, a minimalist Beijing restaurant by CL3, one of Tokyo’s latest Bathing Ape (BAPE) boutiques by Wonderwall, and a list of other projects that pair striking details with impeccable execution.
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Photo © John Linden
In our quarterly roundup of residential projects, we explore HGA Architects’ artist housing in Washington, D.C., supportive living in Toronto by architectsAlliance, low-income housing by Kanner Architects in Santa Monica, and a senior living project in San Francisco by Kwan Henmi and Anne Fougeron.
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This month we have rounded up the best new surfacing products introduced at the Coverings tile and stone show, as well as a range of the latest windows that help architects save lives, energy, time, and money.
Results are always crucial, but for these emerging firms, process is really where interest and impact collide. Meet Atlanta-based Houser Walker Architecture—two architects who have taken the time to define their firm's core values. Also, we introduce you to Wikitecture, two guys shepherding a new day in design with the power of many. |
Photo © Werner Huthmacher Commentary: Robert Campbell takes a hard look at Moore Ruble Yudell’s new US embassy in Berlin and the way security concerns affected its design. |
Photo © Michael MathersEvery month GreenSource magazine explores one innovative solution to the challenges presented by designing for sustainability. This month, we profile a Portland, Oregon, firm’s solution for getting a church’s underground parking structure into the green spirit.
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Photo © Scott Mcdonald
Whether they're at street level or underground, public spaces are transformed by lighting design. These illuminating projects lend as much poetry to gathering places, pedestrian conduits, and cultural facilities as they do darkness-smashing functionality.
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Image courtesy ttlens / © Roger Wade
RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography. |
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