Fred A. Bernstein

Architecturally ambitous, it's also a model of international cooperation

For Daniel Toole, a major commission while still in architecture school

The project marks the nonagenarian architect's latest pro bono gig 

A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)

Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride

And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?

The saddest of American crimes evokes the best in American architetcture

OMA's design seems to hit all its marks

Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form

Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"

Architect Manuel Herz taps into a long history of kinetic architecture

The gentle architecture of Phase Three

Can Frank Gehry's firm outlive its founder? Norman Foster's? Zaha Hadid's?

Technologies that are changing how architects practice

Internal competition is one of several successul methods

This one's a gallery; that one's a publicly accessible private home

Some buildings just couldn't be saved

The importance of New York to architects' careers

Toshiko Mori's architectural dialogues with the masters

Around the world in 20 slides

A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener

There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked

Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village

Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north

A Paul Rudolph apartment, untouched for nearly 40 years

A son designs a Costa Rica retreat for a literary dad

Living with century-old bricks and massive wooden trusses 

Jennifer Luce's triumph in La Jolla

At home with the Ricky of Ricky's

Syd Kitson's big deal

Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England

Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof

Controversy on West 15th Street

At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins

Tom Killian and Francoise Bollack keep their interventions subtle

Kulapat Yantrasast's Grand Rapids Art Museum has a light footprint

West Village resident Marianne Cusato designs Katrina Cottages

Especially if the church has already borrowed against the planned buildings

Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever

A new house breaks with tradition

The apartment every celebrity needs

Marty Skrelunas polishes Philip Johnson's masterpiece

Modernism arouses ire in the city's historic district

And it's in Newark!

Designed for isolation, it's now surrounded

Extraordinary ingenuity makes a tiny apartment seem spacious 

Ron Witte and Sarah Whiting live in a modest, modernist masterpiece.

Nationally, ceiling heights rise

Saving modernist houses

Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages

The Cretellas renovate

The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture

Small houses buck the McMansion trend

Smashing Mies

Reviving the shores of the Anacostia

The state of Philip Johnson's buildings

Infrastrucutre gets a new look

In Santa Cruz, accessory dwelling units are encouraged

How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway

Vornado's billboard boondoggle at 34th and 7th

An apartment the world deserves to see

The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation

With a little help from its sponsors . . .

45 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works

A quirky magazine's farewell

A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching

Finally, someone's paying attention the New York State Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair

Endowments for the presidential libraries are coming up short

The Clinton library rises on the Arkansas River

The fight for photos of a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece

Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score

Roger Duffy remakes the mega-firm

A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN

Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.

Pritzker Prize-winners compete.

Rem Koolhaas's relationship with New York is on the rocks

A developer recreates Sunnyside (or tries to)

Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.

Big Architecture in a Small Town

A Review of Rem Koolhaas' new store in SoHo

Edwad Larrabee Barnes Visits Westchester

Ikea's plans for Westchester draw ire

An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture

A magical new building in SoHo

A portrait of the memorial designer as architect and artist

The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored

Moving fabled galleries to a new building, while changing almost nothing

The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work

The Oklahoma-born architect built some of the great California houses of the 20th Century

His descendant, architect Samuel White, leads the tour

Not every gallery he designs is a plain white box

When the recession dried up a Texas couple’s credit sources, their architect realized that he had to build their modernist house himself.

Next week, 19 groups of architecture students will serve meals at houses they built in Washington, part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.

A booth for a Jewish festival

184 Markers for the Missing

A wild ride that isn't over yet

With its new Journal, SOM critiques itself

The house is part of their collection

Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes a crack at elevating Chinese workers

Zumthor, Nouvel and much more

A house in Memphis cuts it carbon footprint (albeit with offsets)

Article on In Our Own Time: Modern Architecture in Litchfield, 1949-1970, show at Litchfield History Museum in Connecticut featuring more than dozen early modernist houses designed by Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Edward Durrell Stone and others

The developers of a condo in Chelsea designed by Jean Nouvel are altering the building’s lobby after real estate agents attributed slow sales to the lobby’s design

Undulating walls of stainless steel will ensure that few units at 8 Spruce Street, designed by Frank Gehry, will be identical

Donald Trump’s project for a golf resort on the northeast coast of Scotland, near Aberdeen, hangs in the balance as environmentalists say the rugged coastline should be left undisturbed

An East-West collaboration upstate from Manhattan sheds light on a houseful of Chinese art

The famed architect, who would have turned 100 this year, designed intricate brutalist structures that were all about performance

Wrightwood 659’s ambitious program includes a reinstallation of the U.S. exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes Trabulsi: “People are so comfortable here, they never want to leave.”

For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out

When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No problem: David flew 7,000 miles to pop the question at a restaurant in Addis Ababa. A year and a trip to the altar later, the Carmels now live in a Chelsea apartment that’s designed in part to make it easy for David to get around in a wheelchair; a diving accident eight years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down

When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes

Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors. Fred Bernstein, a resolute lover of neutrals, attempts to expand his horizon of hues

Burning Man is many things -- including a model of smart city planning.

It took a lot of years to get it built. But Gehry stayed the course, compromised when necessary, and rose above his critics

Hundreds of thousands of daily visitors, about 200 buildings, $4.2 billion spent: Shanghai’s lavish world expo, which opened on May 1 and runs through the end of October, is a chance for China’s largest city to announce itself as a cultural and economic powerhouse. It’s also a stage where the nations of the world can show off—to visitors and each other—through architecture. Fred A. Bernstein tours the Expo, surveys its architectural hits and misses, and even gets inside the much-maligned U.S. pavilion

Architect Bernard Tschumi shares his strategies for success in the world of competitions

Saving the environment begins at work

Architect Jonathan Segal prospers by serving as his own client, general contractor, and property manager

The new Las Vegas CityCenter was designed by a Rat pack of star architects. Can their high-modern megaproject move sin city’s design standards beyond the ersatz?

The memorial design by landscape architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo offers a contemplative space in nature

In a post-occupancy visit, Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem’s public library, which stayed open during Covid, is clearly a popular amenity

A new beachside building on Long Island embraces environmental stewardship

Architect Joshua Ramus discusses the recently-completed exterior of the theater in Lower Manhattan that opens in 2023

Reiser+Umemoto's Taipei Music Center is a brawny complex of cubic and crystalline forms

In redesigning San Diego’s Mingei Museum, LUCE et Studio engages artists to further the institution’s mission

A wood temple on a sacred site opens and closes like a book

The man behind the mega-dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responds to criticism that it will create an unhealthy environment for students in rooms without windows

Baroque influences shape this sinuous contemporary church in Southern Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects

Still labeled Dubai 2020, the World Expo will open on October 1, complete with a centerpiece dome by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill

Projects from around the country reflect an array of inventive affordable approaches

What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?

Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel

Since it opened in 1995, Bruder has been able to bring the building into the 21^st century without compromising his architectural vision, of which flexibility was a key part

The 1,653-foot-high building will be part of a new Manhattan skyline that not everyone is happy about

The architect talks to Record about the firm’s first, and biggest project, still incomplete, for Dissona

Richard Gluckman reimagines a Con Edison substation for Peter M. Brant’s latest art venue in New York

To lead the profession, firms must nimbly respond to and embrace technological changes

Smiljan Radic's beacon-like regional theater in Chile is a concrete structure wrapped as lightly as a tent

Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community

In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit -- and criticize -- Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House 

The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile

Three of the most eloquent voices at the Venice Architecture Biennale addressed different aspects of the same question: Can architecture improve lives in Africa? 

If you’re prominent and reach the age of 80, The New York Times may have a writer (possibly this one) prepare your obituary for later use

Two teachers have been bringing out the inner architects in Moscow children since the Soviet era

In Manhattan, a sleek rectilinear garage and sculptural salt shed brighten the city

Thierry Jeannot's Green Transmutation Chandelier (2010) made from reclaimed materials, green dye, aluminum, and light bulbs. Don’t envy Lowery Stokes Sims, the curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, her many recent trips to Latin America. As the force behind New Territories, the museum’s survey of recent design in 14 countries (through April 6), Sims maintained a punishing schedule of studio visits; her itineraries and notes are viewable on iPads in the museum’s ingenious “Curator Lab.” Sims discovered many more worthwhile items, most of them by young designers, than the museum had room for. Her other challenge

A dark and mysterious pavilion—the first new arrival in two decades—shakes up the Venice Biennale

By running their fingers across new “super-high-definition smart tables," visitors make shapes that are then displayed as hats, lamps, tables, vases, chairs, or buildings

Open since May 1, this tightly packed world's fair of architectural hits and misses runs through October 31. UK Pavilion by Tristan Simmonds in collaboration with BDP and Stage One. The first world exposition, held in London in 1851, occupied Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace. But during the last century, expos (also called world's fairs) evolved into collections of national pavilions that competed for attention with novel and grandiose building designs. The Shanghai Expo in 2010 kicked off the “Asian century” with a show of architectural pyrotechnics that reportedly attracted 73 million visitors

At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture

Joy's 1,000-square-foot station is part of the redevelopment of the southwest corner of the Princeton University campus

The billionaire chats with RECORD about his Thomas Heatherwick-designed island, disagreeing with Frank Gehry, and why he hates Jean Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue

Joshua Prince-Ramus discusses the challenges and opportunities of working abroad

Paul Andreu's mammoth 'Egg' shelters three theaters under one domed roof

Allied Works's Brad Cloepfil bravely tackles the redo for New York City's Museum of Arts and Design

Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art

In the Bronx, new parks are opening and old parks are being revitalized at a pace not seen since Robert Moses’s heyday. 

At New York's Museum of Modern Art, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream proposes five solutions to the disconnect between the housing Americans need and the housing America offers

An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium

A pavilion designed by Woods with Christoph A. Kumpusch is under construction in Chengdu, China. “I was never in love with drawing,” Woods says “I drew because I wanted to express ideas.”

Funding shortfalls could hinder ambitious waterfront schemes planned for several U.S. cities

Despite declining attendance and revenue, many cities are expanding convention centers or building new ones

Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you’re a superstar design firm, steer clear of archi-speak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple.

The New York architects recently won the bid to design a condo-hotel building on the Brooklyn waterfront. Image courtesy Rogers Marvel Rogers Marvel has designed a 550,000-square-foot building that steps back from the Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.” 

Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.”

Two architecturally ambitious developments have stalled following accusations of municipal malfeasance. Photo via Wikipedia Following a corruption investigation, bidding has stalled on a $1-billion project to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center site. Architects, no matter how successful, are dependent on clients; even the indomitable Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas can see their best efforts dashed when clients get in trouble. That’s the situation in Florida, where the two starchitects were in the running to design a billion-dollar development on the site of the Miami Beach Convention Center

Why is a Washington, D.C., rail revamp moving forward while another in New York can’t seem to pull away from the platform? Image courtesy Amtrak A rendering for an improved West End Concourse extending from New York's Penn Station under the Farley Post Office. Riding Amtrak from Washington’s Union Station to New York’s Penn Station is a trip, architecturally speaking, from heaven to hell. So it came as a surprise this summer when Amtrak announced plans to transform one of those stations into “a world class transportation hub,” at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion

Under African Skies: The first phase of an ambitious national university creates a community of buildings and outdoor spaces adapted to a hot, dry climate

The renowned Spanish engineer and designer is the subject of an exhibition opening today at Russia's Hermitage Museum—the institution's first retrospective devoted to a contemporary architect. Calatrava speaks candidly with Architectural Record about the show, his work, and the criticism he often faces

The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home

A new circulating library will be housed within the New York Public Library's main building on 42nd Street in Manhattan

It’s hard to imagine a country with more varied architecture than Mexico, and a show at the Palacio de Iturbide is devoted to the last century of that diversity. Mario Pani and Luis Ramos Cunningham. Nonoalco Tlatelolco Housing Complex, 1964. Mexico City. One of the challenges facing the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it gathers material for its planned 2015 show of Latin American architecture from 1954 to 1980, is that Mexico alone warrants as much space as MoMA is likely to allot to the entire region

Eight hundred people turned out for what was, in effect, a town hall meeting on the demolition of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien building

A competition challenged four architecture firms to come up with new ideas for Long Island downtowns. Utile, Inc.'s scheme for Rockville Centre, where a train station on columns already exists, would add monumental arcades to shelter a garage during the week and a pedestrian plaza on weekends. Proponents of smart growth, which generally involves reliance on mass transit, should find a lot to admire on Long Island, where the nation’s largest commuter railroad carries upwards of 300,000 passengers a day. The trouble is that many of those commuters arrive at local train stations by car

Plans to protect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House by placing it on a hydraulic lift to be deployed in case of flooding are proceeding at a rate that has surprised even the plans’ supporters

The relationship between Le Corbusier and New York City involved love and hatred, passion and resentment, and ultimately a quest by the architect for “revenge, recognition, and money, money, money,” according to Jean-Louis Cohen

When Less is More Earth-friendly

When Frank Lloyd Wright’s SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, opens for tours for the first time in 60 years, visitors will see firsthand its functional shortcomings along with its spectacular innovations. 

Modular housing has already obscured most of the east facade of Barclays Center, long before the building has reached its full height. Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade

It's still early in 2014, but already several important modernist buildings have fallen​​, inclduing Bertrand Goldberg's cloverleaf-shaped Prentice Women's Hospital

The role of Jews in creating and popularizing post-war modernism is the subject of a new exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Think Eichler, Levitt, Guggenheim, and Fallingwater.

The Rotterdam-based firm West 8 has transformed 30 acres on Governors Island into parkland. Buildings have been leveled and parking spaces have been eliminated on the 172-acre island, leaving plenty of open space. When superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc around New York Harbor, Governors Island was largely spared, in large part because construction of a new park had involved both adding elevation and installing proper drainage. “I’m glad my landscape architect is Dutch,” says Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, referring to Adriaan Geuze, the principal of Rotterdam-based West 8

The exhibition materials are displayed in a series of curved vitrines that form a circle within the main room of the Archives building. Japan is one of the many countries—both Eastern and Western—that hasn’t been sufficiently respectful of its modernist architectural heritage. Still, preservationists in most countries would envy Japan its National Archives of Modern Architecture, conceived by the late architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki and created by the government in 2012. The Archives benefits from public funding, its own building (within the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden in Tokyo’s Yushima neighborhood), and, if that weren’t enough, Tadao Ando as its honorary director

Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried

Architects have something new to worry about

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture can be as unconventional as its founder

David van der Leer, the institute’s new director, arranged to swap its longtime quarters on the sixth floor of a Flatiron district building for a storefront space in the same building

When Peter Wynne Rees became the chief planner of the City of London in 1985, the famous “square mile” had only one hotel. Now two of the City’s most important Edwardian buildings are becoming luxury hotels.

The great Fire Island architect gets the recognition he deserves

After 12 years of astonishing change in New York, Bloomberg earns mixed marks

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H3 Hardy Collaboration, SHoP Architects, and SOM present plans to relocate the arena so Penn Station can be rebuilt. 

A confidant of I. M. Pei, Perry Chin was asked to consult on plans to give Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery in Washington new heating, cooling, security, and fire safety systems

Game Changer: Columbia University's quirky but tough field house bridges the divide between its gritty surroundings and the athletic playing fields beyond

Renewing an important campus by Paul Rudolph poses dangers and the chance to keep his work alive

A conversation with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for the development's master plan. 

The exhibition "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" at Johannesburg's Goethe-Institut explores the need for legal housing for armies of squatters

What happens to architecturally important private homes when families who have protected them—sometimes for four decades or more—decide to sell

Marmol Radziner has restored and adapted E. Stewart Williams' 1961 Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building for use by the museum.

“La Sapienza" is a rarity: a fictional film about real architecture

A new book looks at more than 50 recently completed, architecturally ambitious Japanese houses, offering a profound counterpoint to the comparatively safe — in several senses of the word — 21st-century residential design frequently found in the West

The California-based interiors wunderkind creates smart, soulful homes that feel like extensions of their occupants

Alan Eckstein, cofounder of the label Timo Weiland, turns his gaze from fashionable clothing to timeless objects

Decades into a renowned career, the Seattle architect Tom Kundig continues using humble materials to create pared-down forms that exist in harmony with their often-spectacular settings

The American designer has built his reputation on helping clients express their personalities through their homes

Working from his studios in Chicago and New York City, Dirk Denison designs residences that are uniquely tailored to the individuals who call them home

As much sculptors of space and curators of experience as they are architects, the partners of San Francisco's Aidlin Darling Design create emotionally evocative residences that appeal to more than just the eye

The Academy Award–winning actress and design maven tells us how she turned to the image-collecting site for inspiration in planning her new house

The late starchitect had a penchant — and a gift — for designing instantly iconic objects, from cars to sofas to bracelets

The California architect has found herself in high demand, thanks to her floating foundations and walls that open to the world

Brazil’s leading design talent executes Bauhaus minimalism with near-magical moments of drama in a string of understated hotels and homes

If everything is bigger in Texas, Marfa is the exception. A new book examines the homes in this art-focused desert city, where less is best

The Southern California interior designer has won the trust of her high-flying clients — Hollywood movers and shakers among them — by creating soulful spaces whose mix of materials, styles, eras and furnishings gives homes meaning and make them feel lively

Architects and designers are using humble timber to create awe-inspiring structures and interiors around the globe

Fresh off a series of successes (including the new Philadelphia home of the Barnes Foundation) and one preservationist brouhaha (the imminent destruction of their beloved 2001 American Folk Art Museum), the husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are looking to the future, with projects from Mexico City to Mumbai

MDFG cofounders Jeffrey Graetsch and Ashley Booth Klein, who also happen to be a married couple, have filled their apartment and their gallery with works by mid-century design icons

In several apartments in Los Angeles, the architecture critic has created murals that fool the eye into connecting distinct surfaces

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., will open an $8-million building that artists can saw through, drill through, and generally mangle, just as they did at the museum's original home

Philip Johnson's synagogue in Port Chester, New York, is now as practical as it is beautiful

A group of Auburn University students are designing a bridge for Volkswagen’s planned factory in Tennessee

Paul Rudolph designed this glamorous apartment nearly four decades ago. It still dazzles today

The three-year, $44 million restoration is a hit

Carlos Brillembourg, an architect, and Karin Waisman, an artist, built a modern house in the Hamptons that is spacious, spare and stylish