The typical tale of the design of the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a World Cup match between Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer—refereed by Wallace Harrison—is one that leaves both key ...

Last fall, nearly 12,000 building technologists, architects, engineers, manufacturers, and related professionals descended on downtown San Diego for Autodesk University, the annual gathering organized ...

The District Architecture Center presents an exhibition exploring the intersection of jewelry design and architectural landmarks in the nation’s capital. From pieces created by prominent architects to ...

This article, first published on January 8, was last updated on January 13 to include additional threatened and destroyed sites as well as the latest figures from CAL FIRE regarding the size of the ...

Imagine fully demountable, prefabricated concrete floors that reduce emissions by two-thirds and are beautiful to boot. This is what Swiss company Vaulted claims to deliver with its Rippmann Floor ...

If you could invite 21 of today’s most brilliant architects to dinner, who would they be? And if you seated each luminary between a pair of architecture students primed on one of the architect’s most ...

On a ridge behind the Hollywood sign, there’s a lone pine growing up from a bald dirt patch that locals call the Wisdom Tree. Los Angeles may be a city with no center, but this spot marks a split in ...

Expansions and modernizations at airports can be logistically tricky. They often involve shutdowns and delays, adding to travel headaches and causing a loss of revenue. But prefabrication and modular ...

The construction industry is known for its slim profit margins and erratic market cycles—this despite accounting for $13 trillion in spending worldwide in 2023, or approximately 7 percent of global ...

The Danube River flows from Germany’s Black Forest some 1,800 miles across Europe before pouring into the Black Sea. As the continent’s second-longest river, it has served as a west-to-east conduit, ...

Sanaa’s much anticipated Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building officially opens its doors to the public next month—for Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, their fourth building in the United States.

A quiet residential block on Staten Island is the unlikely location of a potentially game-changing project: the first modularly constructed public bathroom in New York. The modest structure, designed ...