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Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PORTRAIT BY ANDR� JONES PROTECTIVE IMPULSE At the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Brent Leggs is expanding his mission, spotlighting under-recognized buildings by trailblazing [...]

Byline: TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BAKER STYLED BY TESSA WATSON SECOND NATURE Architect Alexander Liberman updates the language of classic California modernism for a young family in [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN Bridging the Divide In Houston, Thomas Woltz revitalizes and reunites public green space in need Houston's Memorial Park was meant to honor [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN Packing a Punch At a tiny Athens apartment, Point Supreme Architects hones the fine art of the mix When Marianna Rentzou and [...]

Colectivo C733, a group of Mexican architects, has been designing public spaces for communities in need. They started their work in 2018 when the Mexican government launched a revitalization project for impoverished neighborhoods. The collective has completed 35 projects, including sports and education facilities, markets, community centers, and cultural buildings. Their designs often feature peaked roofs and innovative structural schemes. They have received commissions directly from the government and have been praised for their creativity and connection with the communities they serve. However, with the potential change in government, the future of Colectivo C733 is uncertain. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN Oslo Now There are more than just fjords in its future. Norway, famous for natural beauty, will become a cultural mecca on [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN California Calls The reopening of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) after a $105 million renovation and expansion offers further [...]

Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PORTRAIT BY LELANIE FOSTER ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY IWAN BAAN IN THE GROOVES Thirteen years into their experimental practice, the Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL have hit [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN Putting It All Out There A bold new building reinvents art storage for public enjoyment Entirely reflective and sited in the middle [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN Music in the Air Updated by starchitect Frank Gehry, an Inglewood building welcomes the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles To understand Frank Gehry's [...]

Byline: PRODUCED BY SAM COCHRAN FRED A. BERNSTEIN Sustainability As the world confronts the urgent realities of climate change, top architects are reconsidering the way we live, pioneering new approaches [...]

Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PORTRAIT BY TONY LUONG ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY IWAN BAAN ground control Manipulating the earth and pioneering new ways to build, Débora Mesa and Antén [...]

Byline: EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN FRED A. BERNSTEIN Curves Ahead At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, an ingenious new design welcomes all The architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are well [...]

Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON SCHMIDT neighborhood watch For the past 23 years, architect Jeanne Gang has steadily grown a practice rooted in community engagement. At [...]

Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON SCHMIDT NEW YORK GIANTS No architects have done more to transform Manhattan's cultural landscape in the 21st century than Diller Scofidio [...]

But now, with steady improvements in our understanding of embodied carbon - the carbon emitted when building materials are created, transported, and installed - the overall carbon impact of Passive House construction has become a subject of concern. CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR MORE than 30 years, Passive House principles have been a valuable guide to making buildings energy efficient. DEKALB COMMONS - WINDOW JAMB DEKALB COMMONS CARBON ANALYSIS - ROOF INSULATION THE DESIGN team for Dekalb Commons found that the embodied-carbon savings of using less roof insulation outweighed the operational-carbon benefit of using more. But proponents of Passive House standards say there are many other kinds of insulation, and that Passive House buildings need not be high in embodied carbon. [Extracted from the article]

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,039 CIVIC BUILDINGS ONE OF THE FIRST things visitors see inside the new Energy & Nature Center at Jones Beach State Park, an hour east of New York, is a model of the 330-foot-long building, including the solar panels and geothermal wells that, together, are meant to make it operationally "net zero." Haffner was hired in July 2019 and rushed to get exhibitions designed and built in just nine months, while the building was under construction. Or, as nARCHITECTS partner Eric Bunge puts it, "The building is part of the exhibition.". [Extracted from the article]

TRAVEL Believe what you've heard: Scandinavia is a feast for the design lover's eyes, with incredible hotels, fabulous food, and exquisite architecture, both old and new. As visits to three [...]

Despite the collaboration with the local architects, Reiser and Umemoto kept firmly involved in steering the 755,000-square-foot project toward completion, producing many of the working drawings in their New York office. The reason they won the competition, Reiser and Umemoto believe, is that they took maximum advantage of the 23-acre site. PROJECTS "PRODUCING A WINNING competition entry is one thing, but building it is another", says Nanako Umemoto. [Extracted from the article]

The founder of Luce et Studio Architects, the architect is known for buildings that are resolutely modern but dependent on a high level of craft. Luce says her work on the Mingei - her first museum - was all-consuming, given her roles as fundraiser, architect, and designer at a range of scales. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,036 CULTURAL BUILDINGS CULTURAL BUILDINGS SIX YEARS AGO, in a remarkable display of how far a determined architect can guide a client, Jennifer Luce decided that the Mingei International Museum, a San Diego institution that collects and displays folk art from around the world, needed a top-to-bottom renovation - and then persuaded its leaders to spend some $55 million on the project. [Extracted from the article]

The article looks at the best interior design projects in 2022, including Vestre's The Plus factory and visitor center in Magnor, Norway that was designed by BIG, the Grand Junction Plaza in Westfield, Indiana designed by hwkn architecture and david rubin land collective, and the Oritim spa in Shenzhen, China designed by matrix design.

Reimagining the City SOLUTIONS L.A.: Light-rail leads to lookouts and art display Los Angeles's Crenshaw Boulevard is often considered the premier artery of African-American commerce and culture in the western United States. "It felt like an updated version of the ways freeways and tracks had torn through underprivileged neighborhoods in the '40s, '50s, and '60s", said Jason Foster, who'd worked elsewhere in L.A. to reclaim such infrastructuredamaged communities. Sarah Amelar Pittsburgh: Brownfields and mills become parks This spring, the Seattle-based landscape architecture firm GGN completed the two-acre Hazelwood Green Plaza in Pittsburgh. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ CONFRONTING THE PAST In Montgomery, Alabama, a new memorial and museum bear witness to the brutal legacy of racial injustice [...]

Byline: FRED A. BERNSTEIN EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY GIEVES ANDERSON Rise and Shine On a waterfront stretch of Long Island, architect Bill Ryall devises an elegant, eco-friendly house [...]

TRAVEL Did someone say road trip ? In search of America's next design destinations, AD has journeyed coast- to-coast, checking out the latest hotels, museums, and cultural hot spots . [...]