Architectural competitions easily run aground.
"An effective city planner needs to be a gatekeeper, negotiator, and advocate for community values that have been identified by the appointed and elected bodies," says local architect Paul Trementozzi, principal of OZ Architecture. Fort Collins planning director Joe Frank is all of the above.
Many lenders focus on generating new business. MetLife wants to keep the clients it already has.
It's no surprise that Jay Bhatt sees the future through a global lens.
When architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) were sitting down to work on design development for the Sears Tower in the late 1960s, they collaborated with another, smaller operation that has been largely lost to the history books.
Week after week this spring, celebrity judges on Bravo's Top Design subjected young, nervous interior designers to crueler crits than get inflicted in most design schools.
When architects want to call on a member of Congress who gets it, they go to Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon and 11-year House veteran.
A look at how architectural power is measured and honored—and what it means today.
The history and impact of Moses' exploits are documented in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1974 biography, The Power Broker, which has defined Moses as a Machiavellian villain for a generation.
How a single nonprofit—the U.S. Green Building Council—defines sustainability for the nation.
How does an emerging global power announce itself? With the world's tallest building.
It's no wonder that Peter Marchetto, who heads operations in the Americas for construction giant Bovis Lend Lease, knows how to incorporate architects in the building process. He grew up with one.
Tom Wolfe, the chief lobbyist for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), is not an architect himself—and he thinks that's a good thing.
In March 2006, as fierce dispute—and charges of inequity—surrounded the rebuilding plans for post-Katrina New Orleans, Darren Walker did the unimaginable.
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The most influential people in architecture aren't necessarily practitioners.
A science that works on the molecular scale is set to transform the way we build.
Winners in U.S., Canada, and China come from program's largest group of submissions
VILJO REVELL'S STARK 1965 Nathan Phillips Square fronting Toronto's City Hall?two curving towers that surround the saucer-shaped Council Chamber will be renovated by a team of architects and landscape designers who seek to energize the plaza's civic functions with theatrical interventions that...
The Empire State Building delivered the last word in the 1930s skyscraper height wars, but fame has not exempted it from the ongoing competition of contemporary office design.
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The lists of best and worst U.S. cities for business and careers.
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL) in New York recently announced the winners of its annual architecture awards.
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Four projects respond to Hurricane Katrina; Torti Gallas, Urban Design Associates, and Dover, Kohl receive multiple awards
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
A dozen properties were declared National Historic Landmarks by the U.S. Department of the Interior in early April.
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has announced the winners of its 17th annual Design Excellence Awards program.
Developer targets May groundbreaking, says 150-floor building will continue to evolve
City looks to feasible goals, targeted reinvestment to attract private development