Dattner Architects employees have requested a card-check neutrality agreement from office leadership for union recognition. This is to bypass an election by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) . Today Dattner has over 100 employees. Organizers have a supermajority and are working with the International Association of Machinists (IAM), per Alex Press in Jacobin. Should…
Ghent, like the other Flemish cities, is a universe unto itself. Medieval wealth, born from textiles and wool trade, was expressed in a Gothic architecture, which spoke to the city-state’s power as much as ecclesiastical fervor. This much the guidebooks tell you, less well known are the convoluted series of governments the city experienced from…
From the front cover to the back page, a definite theme emerges across this issue: All the projects are renovations. The material improvement of existing conditions is at the heart of what architects and designers do: “Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality,” Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza once said. And given our current ecological and…
The world needs a flying car like a fish needs a bicycle. (It doesn’t.) Read on for more tea. Eavesdrop, much like the hunter in Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson’s poem, is someone “who listens. / So hard to [their] prey it pulls the weapon. / Out of [their] hand and impales. / Itself.” A…
Constructed in 1908 by government architect Keijiro Yamashita, the landmark Nara Prison is the only complex among Japan’s monumental “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” to survive almost entirely intact. More than a century later, Hoshino Resorts has transformed the former prison into Hoshinoya Nara Prison, , a 48-suite luxury hotel that preserves the building’s distinctive…
SAINT OF ATHENS TRANSLATES BRAND DUALITY INTO flagship BOUTIQUE Designed by Saint of Athens, the Peace + Chaos flagship boutique in Thessaloniki, Greece, serves as a physical manifestation of the fashion brand’s dual identity. The interior scheme builds on a spatial dialogue between monochromatic minimalism and high-energy visual elements, reflecting the ongoing tension between…
The RIBA Stirling Prize 2026 was awarded to Lion Green Road, a south London residential project grounded in a landscape-first approach with 157 homes. Lion Green Road was designed by Mary Duggan Architects with Ruff Architects. Lion Green Road was selected over other shortlisted projects: a house by Sergison Bates architects, a move theater renovation…
A historic house in Dallas was falling apart. Water damage and years of deterioration had left the modest Victorian-era home on the brink of collapse. Rather than demolishing it, co-owners Shannon Wynne and Casey McManemin partnered with architect Russell Buchanan to reimagine preservation. The result is an approach the team calls “adaptive restoration,” combining preservation,…
Coyote Time Counterpublic St. Louis, Missouri Through December 13, 2026 At the St. Louis International Institute, a former Catholic school–turned–refugee welcome center that provides support to immigrant arrivals, our group of journalists and artists gathered in the light-filled cafeteria to eat lunch. Rirkrit Tiravanija, the famed artist who built his reputation around social practice, had…
Tarrant County College’s original campus in Fort Worth, Texas, was built in the 1970s as a Brutalist series of off-white, monolithic brick buildings. In 2017, a tornado tore through North Texas, damaging much of the campus’s facade. Scaffolding and barricades were put in place to protect returning students and staff from falling bricks, which also…