Thomas Phifer and Partners   United States   The firm Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a red concrete pavilion for the recently completed Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. Designed by AECOM, it incorporates strategies to improve flood resilie

Studio Gang   United States   The use here of recycled and locally sourced materials, optimal-form factors, and renewable energy systems incites students to contribute to building a more sustainable future. The open-plan ground level features a double-height atrium from which a n

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron – in collaboration with the New York studio PBDW Architects – has turned the Breuer Building in Manhattan into the new global headquarters of the auction house Sotheby’s, which officially opened recently. Located at

Farshid Moussavi   United States   Houston has inaugurated the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh in the world. The complex is part of the international network of institutions promoted by Karim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV (1936–2025), creator of a prestigious trie

Adjaye Associates   United States   The new Princeton University Art Museum has opened its doors in the heart of the New Jersey campus. The building, which doubles the size of the original museum, is organised around nine interconnected pavilions, totalling 13,565 square metres spread

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   This student centre has recently been inaugurated at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Designed by Danish firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in collaboration with New York-based Rockwell Group, which was responsible for the interior design, the compl

Foster + Partners   United States   The new headquarters of the financial company JPMorganChase in Manhattan at 270 Park Avenue has had its grand opening. Rising 423 meters and 60 floors, it is now New York City’s sixth-tallest edifice, adding to the Big Apple’s architectural history.

Grafton Architects Modus Studio   United States   The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, which recently opened in Fayetteville (Arkansas), is a facility for timber-construction research and training. Part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design of the Universi

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Southern California, has opened a center for scientific education and research, designed by the Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Strategically located on the eastern edge of the campus, it is a new gatewa

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   In the heart of Philadelphia, a new cultural space devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder – born in the Pennsylanian city – opened on 21 September. Far from being a conventional museum, it provides an encounter with his work through an interplay of

Ecosistema urbano   United States   On view through 24 October, the art installation PlanTable transforms the urban environment of Boston’s Chinatown into an ecological refuge. Curated by Lani Asunción and presented by the Pao Arts Center as part of the Un-monument initiative, it amoun

Mecanoo   United States   Nearly five years after a fire devastated the original Doris Duke Theatre in November 2020, the Jacob’s Pillow dance center in Becket, Massachusetts, inaugurates its replacement, connected to the place’s Native American heritage. This irregular two-s

Saunders Architecture   United States   The Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders was tasked to build Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, the visitor center for Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Stacyville, in the state of Maine. This 734-square-meter building serves as gate

Peter Zumthor SOM   United States   After years of planning, redesigning, and construction work, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has for a few days opened the doors of its new David Geffen Galleries, a winding concrete-and-glass building by the Swiss architect Peter Zumtho

Annabelle Selldorf   United States   The New York firm Selldorf Architects, in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, has completed the renovation of the mansion on Fifth Avenue that houses the Frick Collection. The project has remodeled 5,574 square meters of museum space, and added 2

Trahan Architects   United States   Luther George Park – in the heart of Springdale, beside Spring Creek – is a new public space created by the New Orleans architecture office of Trey Trahan, in collaboration with Landscape Architects Spackman Mossop Michaels. Along the park’s central

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Compared with the large residences to be found in North Dallas, which evoke different historic styles, the house on Strait Lane is modest in size and scale, giving more importance to the landscape of the extensive site. With a total area of 520 squar

Foster + Partners   United States   The Los Angeles City Council has approved Foster+Partners’ Television City scheme, to be carried out for the real estate developer Hackman Capital Partners. This project will update the 1952 buildings designed by William Pereira and transform the 25-

Group Projects Architecture   United States   A work of the Brooklyn firm Brooklyn Group Projects Architecture, the house is situated on a large parcel in Millerton, New York state, surrounded by trees and offering views of the Catskill Mountains. It stands at the lower meadow level, following t

Frida Escobedo   United States   The galleries devoted to the growing holdings of modern and contemporary artworks at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be undergoing a revamp, following a scheme, selected in 2022, by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. The first ima

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Founded in 1891 with the establishment of the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, and Pharmacy nestled into the landscape of Mount Sutro, the Parnassus Campus of UCSF (University of California San Francisco) benefits from a dramatic location adjacent to

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Form, color, and movement are the most obvious of many outstanding aspects in the art of Alexander Calder, maxims that are most visible in his kinetic sculptures. But when beginning to conceive an architecture for the presentation of his work, the pr

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The bowery, where 215 Chrystie is located, is a rapidly evolving cultural district in the center of Lower Manhattan. The building’s mass and volume had already been negotiated with the city and the task was to design a hotel and a residential compone

Norman Foster has designed a time capsule to commemorate the 250th anniversary of US independence. The piece was officially presented in Washington, D.C., by UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, to be buried under the plaza at the Washington Monumen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The two superpowers are already digital autocracies. The Chinese authoritarian model, which avoids the electoral cycles of liberal democracies, and which builds safe cities by multiplying facial recognition cameras, offers the countries of the Global

The Dallas Morning News   Mark Lamster   It’s difficult to steal a building, and even harder when that building is made of poured-in-place concrete and roughly the size of an aircraft carrier. But that is precisely what is happening to Dallas City Hall — a monumental theft transpiring in pl

Terrance Goode   The argument of Lawrence C. Davis can be summed up as a belief that socio-cultural density is achievable in suburban, even exurban cities through incremental, targeted changes in zoning, and through correspondingly precise modifications to existing a

Although one of his canvases, The Jungle, hung for many years in a foyer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City never gave Wilfredo Lam much protagonism until the complete retrospective that is currently on show, visitable until 11 April 2026. Hi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo   In 1943, during the debate on the reconstruction of the House of Commons, bombed by the Nazis, Winston Churchill said: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” emphasizing how the rectangular and adversarial shape of the English Parliament

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two days after hosting the planet’s biggest marathon, New York elected a 34-year-old Muslim socialist as mayor. On that same day, 4 November, the country that is the cultural center of the Islamic world inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, a contro

Work has begun on President Donald Trump's long-awaited ballroom at the White House, with the demolition of part of the East Wing façade. The project, designed by McCrery Architects and executed by Clark Construction with engineering by AECOM, involv

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Wright is an architect who was larger than life, and overwhelmingly popular. His tempestuous life has inspired an opera, Shining Brow, and Simon & Garfunkel dedicated a song to him in their mythical album Bridge Over Troubled Water. He left us an ext

Up to 21 September, the streets of Philadelphia only had one modest sculpture by Alexander ‘Sandy’ Calder. Now, with the opening of Calder Gardens, featured in this issue, one of the city’s most famous figures finally has a space to his name, one des

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Far from the pageantry of before, meetings of heads of state or government now leave monotonous pictures where incumbents pose amid insipid decor and there is no lack of national flags, handshakes, and often a table on whose sides the parties sit to

The New York Times   Zachary Small   President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that requires federal buildings in Washington to maintain a classical style of Greco-Roman architecture associated with the marble columns and austere hallways of the Supreme Court and U.S. Capito

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two iconic museums in New York and London opened anew in May. The Frick Collection returned to its original home on Fifth Avenue, after expansion works that lasted five years, carried out by Anabelle Selldorf, and the same architect remodeled the Sai

Although he disappeared at 23 years of age during an ethnographic expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Dutch New Guinea in 1961, Michael, the youngest of Nelson Rockefeller’s children, managed to build up a good treasure of non-Western arte

Printemps, the historic French luxury department store, opens its first US outpost. It is located in a landmark building, One Wall Street, one of the Art Deco jewels of New York. Designed by the Paris-based architect Laura Gonzalez, the new store rei

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Liberation Day was the day that disorder began. Donald Trump chose 2 April to present the new tables of Law, but his tariff commandments unleashed economic chaos and, like Moses upon descending from Mount Sinai, he was soon forced to break the tablet

Alejandro Bernabeu   The region of New England is located in the Appalachian Highlands, on the Atlantic coast of the United States: a territory divided by the Connecticut River and dotted with lakes, mountains, marshes, and sandy beaches; gentle landscapes of woods and w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the launch of the artificial satellite Sputnik on 4 October 1957 set off the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States, that of the generative artificial intelligence DeepSeek’s R1 model on 27 January 2025 sparked the cyberspace ra

Juan Miró Sardá   The encounter of Europe and America since 1492 can be considered one of the most significant events in universal history. Europeans perceived it as a ‘discovery’ and claimed authority to colonize the vast territories, but the colonists were immediate

Returned to power, Donald Trump has made a point of taking swift measures to put the country back on track after a disastrous interregnum, as he sees it. In this he hastens to halt wars and crises, but also rename gulfs and forbid paper straws. On th

Two decades since their first collaboration, Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have worked together again to design a pop-up store inspired by the modular capsule hotels of Tokyo, and which was on view in New York’s SoHo. The space was made u

Dolores Hayden   I am delighted my book from 1984, updated in 2002, is appearing in Spain in 2024. The questions I first raised in the United States forty years ago remain urgent ones. Cities planned around the old idea that “a woman’s place is in the home” have beco

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