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ARCHITECTURE
Does London Need the Tulip Tower?

Despite being chided by critics and dismissed by mayor Sadiq Khan, the controversial tower by...

Business of Design
What Jean Nouvel’s New Resort Means for Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 

The French architect has unveiled a truly groundbreaking design for the Sharaan by Jean Nouvel...

Design
Eileen Gray, Unsung Modernist Architect, Comes Into Full View

With more than 200 furnishings, sketches, and archival documents, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery...

NEED TO KNOW
With a Subtle Touch, Far + Dang Transcends Typical Design Typologies

Not beholden to any single style, the burgeoning Dallas firm infuses a variety of homes across the...

ARCHITECTURE
The Rothko Chapel’s Restoration Ushers In a Vivid New Era

Following a yearlong restoration by New York firm Architecture Research Office, the Houston holy...

NEED TO KNOW
How Branding Expert Christopher Skinner Tells a Compelling Story

Five years after launching the beauty branding agency School House, the LVMH alum dishes on how...

ARCHITECTURE
Governors Island May Receive a Climate Research Center

A sprawling complex by WXY would revitalize the island’s underused waterfront—and may be what...

ARCHITECTURE
Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial Finally Sees the Light

Following a 21-year saga beset by bureaucratic and financial woes, the Dwight D. Eisenhower...

ARCHITECTURE
What If the Brooklyn Bridge Was a Microforest?

An augmented reality art space, a public bazaar, and urban woodlands are just a few of the...

Architecture
 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum Opens in Colorado

With a facade designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro to personify a discus thrower's motion, a...

Surface Summer School
Announcing the Winners of the Surface Summer School Design Challenge

Surface’s partnership with the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at Penn culminates with the...

Project Spotlight
This Hillside Home Is Quintessential California Modernism

The matchbox concept of rotated rectangle structures finds harmony with its location in the...

ARCHITECTURE
Vestre to Build the World’s Greenest Furniture Factory

The Norwegian furniture brand taps Bjarke Ingels Group for a state-of-the-art manufacturing...

ARCHITECTURE
Harvard GSD’s 2020 Wheelwright Prize Goes to Daniel Fernández Pascual

The London-based architect and Cooking Sections co-founder will use the prize’s $100,000 grant to

ITINERARY
Quarantine Culture: 5 Ways to Experience Design and Art Without Leaving Your Home

Dazzling installations by Shoplifter and Raúl de Nieves, a virtual architecture tour of...