Fred A. Bernstein

Following Passive House standards is meant to reduce the amount of energy needed to operate a building. But some of the requirements -- triple-glazed windows, thick layers of insulation -- increase the building's embodied energy. And in some cases the result is a building that emits more, not less, carbon than it would have without Passive House features.

Bloomberg's impact on New York earns mixed marks

A tribute to the great Japanese architect

A sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.

A temple to honor at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs damages perhaps the greatest modernist campus in the world. And it's by the campus's original architect, SOM

A very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy

One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them

Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another shiny office park

The gentle architecture of Phase Three

Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations

Give Calatrava a chance!

An old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor

The great critic, curator and connector

A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation

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

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

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

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 

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

The structural engineer helped realize what architects envisioned

Work by Horace Gifford and HWKN

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

A "national shrine" now hovers over the World Trade Center site

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

Technologies that are changing how architects practice

David Adjaye and Moshe Safdie remember the Indian architect, who died at the age of 84

SOM's student-centered building on Fifth Avenue

Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes a crack at elevating Chinese workers

A look back at Michael Graves's career

A Korean firm is part of Record's Design Vanguard

A tribute to "the Emperor" of Japanese Architects

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

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

The founder of The Architect’s Newspaper died at age 72 on Saturday, April 11, 2020, in New York, after a long battle with lymphoma

The British-born designer of Boston City Hall died Friday, March 27, 2020, at age 84, after contracting COVID-19

The architect and urban designer died at the age of 88 at his home in East Hampton, New York

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

Working on Fallingwater brought out the best in Robert Silman, the structural engineer who died this week at 83

The architect and furniture designer, who reinvented the modern office, passed away at the age of 101 last week

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

Architect Hugh Hardy died last week at 84

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

John Belle, who died this week at 84, helped restore several of New York City’s most important buildings, including Grand Central Terminal and the soaring Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden

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

Museum of Arts and Design curator Lowery Stokes Sims made many great discoveries during her trips to 14 Central and South American countries

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

This tightly packed world's fair of architectural hits and misses has no public transportation, a disaster for visitors who are elderly, disabled, or just tired.

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

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. 

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.

When Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many of their peers—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.” And they have!

It is as much of work of art as it is a museum of art.

Two architecturally ambitious developments have stalled following accusations of municipal malfeasance. 

Why is a Washington, D.C., rail revamp running on schedule while another in New York can’t even pull away from the platform? 

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

As it gathers material for its planned 2015 show of Latin American architecture from 1954 to 1980, 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.

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. 

Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. Not anymore!

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.

“I’m glad my landscape architect is Dutch,” Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, said after Superstorm Sandy struck

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. 

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.

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