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Vacating its Venturi Scott Brown–designed home, the Allentown Art Museum will move into a new purpose-built downtown facility designed by Studios Architecture.
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Vacating its Venturi Scott Brown–designed home, the Allentown Art Museum will move into a new purpose-built downtown facility designed by Studios Architecture.

‘Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses’ will be on view through February 28, 2027.

The fantastical museum lands in Exposition Park to house the art collection of sci-fi filmmaker George Lucas.

Dubbed Sky House, the most recently opened clubhouse at Pavilia Farm is a space for intergenerational play.

In one rare bright spot, Midwestern firms saw growth for the first time in nearly a year.
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For 15 years, Moskow Linn Architects’ Studio North has traded the design studio for the jobsite, guiding students through a weeklong design-build crash course.

Richard Olcott, design partner at Ennead, a CannonDesign Company, joins Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the firm's research discoveries through Ennead e-Lab and sustainability at scale in the design of a new mass-timber science and research complex at Princeton University.

Disappearing into surrounding farmland, Parc Marie-Victorin Museum, designed by Montreal-based Kanva, was conceived as a place to celebrate regional ingenuity.

This off-site show staged by the Noguchi Museum remains on view at the mid-century Manhattan office tower through next summer.

Protests at the performing arts center in Washington D.C. highlight fears of its demolition.

Known for its work with timber, the Austrian-headquartered firm has completed two new buildings as part of a masterplan to double floor space at iXcampus in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Our picks in this industrious category include a smart deadbolt and dock cleat–inspired door grips.

The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation's single-occupancy studios are an elevated alternative to the more basic accommodations for visiting artists on the Maine coast.

Goings-on to note include an interactive exhibition of architectural construction toys, a survey of works by Chicago's John Ronan Architects, and major design events in Minneapolis and Amman, Jordan.

Ma Yansong, Billie Tsien, and Marina Tabassum are among the headlining speakers appearing at the upcoming AIA California–hosted event held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds.

Situated in a rain-dominated stretch of Appalachia, Antinori Village features dogtrot-like lodgings that step down a steep slope in connected pairs.

In the 2010s, the Herzog & de Meuron-designed concert hall hit the headlines due to delays and ballooning costs. A decade after completion, it is hailed as a resounding success.

The book sets out to define the term but the "connection between architecture and antifascism—between built fabric and political orientation—remains a mystery.”

Taking the region’s vernacular houses and stacking them, the Community House in Knokke-Heist provides 100 units of much-needed housing.

In the city of Morelia, the hilltop Casa Pilar was designed for a widow, her expansive trove of art, and her late husband’s impressive car collection.

A new book explores questions about the ways communities process grief, in part, through architectural form.

‘We’re budgeting zero international students moving forward,’ says one dean of the new rule established by the Department of Homeland Security that is set to go into effect on September 15.

Activists hope that the plight of the building, even if ultimately razed, raises awareness over the preservation of modern architecture in Japan.

The Paris-based Austrian architect is a featured speaker at RECORD’s upcoming Sustainability in Practice conference in Chicago.

Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott join DESIGN:ED to discuss the San Francisco–based firm's work in Chengdu, China, and architectural education in 2026,.

This vacation home is embedded into a bluff with concrete retaining walls, allowing its two parallel timber volumes to project toward the lake as if suspended above the landscape.

In Highland Park, the 2022 Design Vanguard firm refashions a stately 1915 estate designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw to accommodate a young family and a sizable art collection.

Our picks include a showcase of small-space living solutions and a survey of well-known architects' own abodes, from Alvar Aalto to Peter Zumthor.

Both the Sustainability in Practice conference and the Women in Architecture Awards will be held at Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

This North Carolina residence nestles into the contours of the Piedmont hills, achieving privacy on a pie-shaped lot by balancing openness and opacity.

The futuristic, MAD Architects-designed complex dedicated to narrative art first broke ground at Exposition Park in Los Angeles in March 2018.

Populating an awkward site, Brick House delivers a more sculptural form and a richer spatial sequence than are typical of an urban lot.

At first glance, the concrete-block Casa Cerro Negro looks like retaining walls lining a ravine, and then perhaps some sort of land-art installation.

From an open-air subterranean dwelling to art-filled estates, the comforts of home run the gamut in this year's Record Houses.

With wife and partner Barbara Littenberg, in 1978 Peterson established a New York architecture and urban design practice best known for its plans for the World Trade Center site.

Orri Mountain Retreat was designed by the firm in close collaboration with the clients, who were seeking a house “in seamless dialogue with nature.”

On a sloping site west of Minneapolis, Imprint Architecture turned an HOA's prescribed gables, a tight budget, and a narrow material palette into a house defined by restraint and charred cedar.

What does it mean to create architecture that remains relevant, resilient, and beautiful for generations? Thoughtful material choices, lasting performance, and timeless design can create homes prepared for the next century.

All Straw House—a collaboration among LTL Architects, Guy Nordenson and Associates, and others—is the outcome of several years of investigation, design, and construction.

Located outside of Gothenburg, this residence with a prefabricated hemp-lime wall system offers a modern take on the farmhouse typology of southwestern Sweden.

Topped with a planted roof, Toop Architectuur's experimental MICO is built of unfired brick.

Designed by San Francisco’s Schwartz and Architecture, the Meander reads less as one structure than a wood-clad trio of angled rectangular forms likened to boulders in a landscape.

Our Record Houses program returns for a late-summer celebration of excellence in residential design with eight featured projects, all located in the Americas.

In this special section, RECORD showcases houses that offer low-carbon—and carbon-sequestering—plant- and earth-based alternatives to conventional construction materials.

The Athens-born architect was a co-founder with Rem Koolhaas, Zoe Zenghelis, and Madelon Vriesendorp of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Former RECORD editor in chief Robert Ivy joined the program, one of the largest travel grants of its kind, this year as trust advisor and consultant.

The 5,650-seat multifunctional venue is jacketed in brightly colored perforated panels, earning it instant-landmark status.

Born in Virginia and later based in California, Myers made his mark early in his career in Canada with projects like Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre.

Designed by NAC Architecture, Pauline Flett Middle School emphasizes the importance of place.

The nonprofit stewards four landmark Wright sites in the Chicago area, including two inscribed as part of a larger collective UNESCO World Heritage site.