Building & Construction

Commuters walking to work this (uncomfortably warm) Halloween morning on New York’s Fifth Avenue may have noticed a costume of mind-boggling proportions: An old building dressed like Louis Vuitton luxury luggage trunks. Louis Vuitton’s flagship at 1 East 57th Street is being replaced with a building that will nearly double its footprint along Billionaire’s Row. […]

Facades+ Los Angeles returns to California for its annual showcase of the best in facade design, engineering, and construction. The Architect’s Newspaper teamed up with Alex Korter, Esther Chao, and Stephen Maher of Los Angeles’s CO Architects to assemble the roster of speakers, ensuring a dynamic and engaging two days of talks and workshops. CO

Lakewood Cemetery is a 150-year-old Minneapolis landmark in an area once inhabited by Dakota tribes, a landscape of cathedral-like oak savannas and lake shores lined with wild rice. As evidence of the westward spread of the East Coast rural cemetery movement, the cemetery’s picturesque 19th-century campus is the product of settler colonialism, but today the

The lives of Courtney Wilk-Mandel and Danny Mandel have changed considerably in five years. In 2019, the newly married couple purchased a single-story home with a backyard in Los Angeles’s Mar Vista that felt cavernous after their small apartment in Silver Lake. A small backyard with a one-car garage in the corner was the cherry

Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses | Photographs by Iwan Baan with contributions by Lindsay Harris, Izzy Kornblatt, and Ryan Scavnicky  | Lars Müller Publishers  | $53  I have yet to make a pilgrimage to The Sphere, but I think about it more than I’d like to admit, searching for tickets to see Dead

There are a total six projects contained within the Tultitlán Cultural Masterplan, a program to add much needed infrastructure and services for an industrial municipality just north of Mexico City, Mexico. Last October, a new fire station was completed as part of the venture. Now, another of the six projects—the Elena Poniatowska Agora and Library—recently

A series of lines like those produced by an old, broken photocopier creates a fuzzy axonometric drawing of a brick building with a Savoye-esque roof garden. A Revit Basic Sample Project seems to have been shredded and reassembled, producing complicated overlays, impossible geometries, and clipped architectural fragments. A 45-degree square inverting the conventional figure-ground diagram

Each week 10,000 visitors stroll through the East Colonnade of the White House to embark on a tour through several of the sitting rooms, receiving spaces, and dining venues of presidents past and present. The tour through these historic rooms has always been curated to point out historic moments and artifacts collected and preserved by

This spring, a 460-foot crystalline tower in Portland, Oregon’s Pearl Arts District marked the first 5-star hotel in the city. The building, imagined by GBD Architects, is home to new Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences in Portland, whose interiors were entrusted to ROAM Interior Design. Known previously as HKS Hospitality, ROAM outfitted the 251-room hotel, featuring 207

A new documentary, Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, has revealed the total amount of worker deaths related to Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030, a multitrillion dollar program which includes NEOM and the Line. According to the exposé by ITV, more than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017