The City of Boston has tapped Reed Hilderbrand, the Cambridge-based landscape architecture firm, to work alongside Agency Landscape and Planning, and Weston & Sampson, to reimagine the waterfront park on the North End of Boston Harbor as a public amenity and storm protection infrastructure. The 4 1/2-acre Waterfront Park that currently acts as a festival…
sunken plaza likns corporate tower with São Paulo’s public realm Jeronimo Faria Lima by Perkins&Will rethinks the corporate tower through its relationship with São Paulo’s public realm. Located at the intersection of Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue and Jeronimo da Veiga Street, the project uses a sunken plaza, pedestrian bridge, and elevated garden to connect…
Following an international competition that drew 88 entries, a winning design entry for Zagreb, Croatia’s new Maksimir Stadium by Milan-based architecture studio VG13, is facing public backlash. Despite the jury’s unanimous selection of VG13’s design, fans of GNK Dinamo Zagreb, a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb and the stadium’s primary tenant, have criticized…
US studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a brown-metal and limestone house organised around a courtyard on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan, USA. Known as Timber Lane Retreat, the 2026 house is composed of three volumes – two, two-story gabled forms that align with a central courtyard and an offset single-story box with…
On the heels of LACMA’s highly-anticipated ribbon cutting in April, Peter Zumthor has completed his first project in Basel, Switzerland—his childhood hometown. The Swiss architect designed a extension to Fondation Beyeler comprised of three new buildings: the Hansjörg Wyss Museum, Ammann Pavilion, and Erlen Gatehouse. The Hansjörg Wyss Museum complements Fondation Beyeler’s existing flagship, the…
Archtober, New York City’s annual celebration of architecture and design, returns this October with hundreds of events across the city—from tours and exhibitions to talks, workshops, and more. The festival’s 2026 theme, In Our Hands, offers a sense of grounded fortitude amid climate change, rapidly evolving technology, and divisive politics. Related programming includes a Building…
In 2017, Mexican architect Fernando Romero purchased La Cuadra San Cristóbal, a home and stable project northwest of Mexico City designed by Luis Barragán with his protégé Andrés Casillas. Last year, Romero announced plans to turn the property into a public cultural venue and mounted a show about Barragán’s work, in addition to installing art…
before the first photograph Sometimes I arrive at a building and don’t take a photograph for the first hour. I walk around. I look at the light, the floor, the ceiling, the way one room leads into another. I pay attention to the materials and how they change depending on where I stand. Sometimes…
Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. Perched on a verdant plot, the five-bedroom Sable House dwelling replaces a 1950s house that had been home to the client and their family for more than 20 years. Allan Joyce Architects…
In the story of the Three Little Pigs, the choice of material determines the fate of each house. The wolf’s breath brings down the structures made of straw and wood, while the brick house remains standing. The moral is that the more solid the construction, the greater its ability to resist. A building, however, has…