Building & Construction

A year ago, Field Operations, Sam Schwartz, and Arcadis were tapped to overhaul Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue by the New York City Mayor’s Office. The design team’s mission ever since has been ideating how to pedestrianize slivers of New York’s primary commercial corridor between Bryant Park and Central Park in order to boost foot traffic, and […]

Chuckanut Drive is a historic, scenic corridor between Vancouver and Seattle. There, up against the Salish Sea’s shoreline, overlooking the San Juan Islands, Omer Arbel Office has ideated 16 bespoke homes as part of a new planned community, Governors Point. Governors Point is sited just south of Bellingham, Washington. The Vancouver-based firm said houses at

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VFMA) last expanded its footprint in 2010. Now, it has plans to do so again. Fourteen years ago, the world-class art museum in Richmond, Virginia, opened a new wing named after James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin. A new expansion designed by SmithGroup, named McGlothlin Wing II, adds more

London’s newest train line named after the late Queen Elizabeth was named the 2024 Stirling Prize winner, RIBA announced yesterday. The Elizabeth Line, designed by Grimshaw Architects, connects Reading in the west to Sheffield in the east with 62 total miles of track that comprises 26 miles of tunnels dotted by 10 new stations thanks

The Permian Basin is one of the largest sedimentary basins in North America, spanning 75,000 square miles from eastern New Mexico to western Texas. This area has been drawing the eyes of economists and geologists alike since the early 1900s as it spews roughly 4 million barrels of oil per day. Located within this oil

WXY released last week a new vision for streets, sidewalks, parks, and empty lots near one of New York’s most trafficked vehicle corridors, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). The infrastructure program was laid out in a 154-page document, BQE North & South: Safe, Sustainable, Connected. The report contains urban design concepts for how to improve public

This week, Sphere Entertainment announced the location for a second iteration of its perfectly round performance venue that captured headlines in Las Vegas. It’s not in London, South Korea, or even West Hollywood. Rather, the landmark building will be situated not far from Burj Khalifa and Aldar Headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Even

The Cuyahoga River bank seeps into downtown Cleveland, Ohio, like a snake in long grass. The shoreline, which once hummed with longshoresmen and cargo ships, has been incrementally transformed from derelict brownfield into usable public space for some time now. In 2021, Wendy Park was finished, as well as Canal Basin Park which converted 30,000

The Architect’s Newspaper and aec+tech are collaborating for the second year to organize TECH+ conferences across the U.S. This year, for the first time, the event took place in Dallas, where leading AEC firms showcased cutting-edge AI implementations and technological advancements, providing a glimpse into the future of the industry. The event comes to New

Astute readers might recall the penultimate sentence from my note in the last issue of this magazine: “Each issue of AN Interior is basically a little adventure.” That exploratory vibe is intact here in our latest offering. As you flip through these pages, you might notice that our spreads have had some work done. The publication’s award-winning art