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Architecture
Ten Endangered Modernist Masterpieces Get a New Lease on Life

With total awards of over $1.7 million this year, the grant initiative Keeping It Modern is helping

Architecture
TAO – Trace Architecture Office’s Swan Lake Bridge House is a Fairytale in Concrete

Floating over water in the middle of parkland, it's a masterclass in making heavy materials lighter

Architecture
The James Simon Gallery by David Chipperfield Architects: A Fresh Ray of Light on Berlin’s Museum Island

The space doesn't just greet visitors or connect the various museums on the site—it adds some...

ARCHITECTURE
Francis Kéré’s Haven at Tippet Rise

Tippet Rise Art Center unveils its first site-specific commission since it opened in 2016: a...

ARCHITECTURE
The Tulip Tower Gets Axed

London mayor Sadiq Khan has dismissed plans to build the Tulip Tower, a controversial supertall...

Architecture
Shigeru Ban Proposes Notre-Dame Temporary Replacement Chapel of Rope and Paper

Graceful and solemn, the simple structure intelligently answers all the site's needs without glass,

Hotel
Opening Shot: A Vintage Water Pumping Station Becomes a Charmingly Modern Hotel

The Vipp Chimney House in Copenhagen makes a strong case for site reuse.

Surface Shops
Rediscovering the Forgotten Women of the Bauhaus, A Reading List

Influential, brilliant, bold, essential—the Bauhaus women come alive again in these books.

Architecture
Kanye West Is Building ‘Star Wars’-Style Houses for the Homeless: Report

In an interview with Forbes, the inescapable multihypenate revealed his prototypes for low-income...

IN MEMORIAM
Phil Freelon, Architect of the National Museum of African American History, Dead at 66

The creator of a long list of public projects that explored and celebrated the African-American...

Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings Are Added to the UNESCO World Heritage List

From the Guggenheim Museum to Fallingwater, eight of the famed architect’s designs join the...

Architecture
This House is a $5.25 Million Ai Weiwei Artwork

The Chinese artist collaborated with firm HHF on this 3-bedroom, 3-bath vacation home—the only Ai

ARCHITECTURE
Second Home Teases L.A. With SelgasCano’s Serpentine Pavilion

In the spiritual homeland of Googie architecture, another futurist arrival is set to inspire a...

ARCHITECTURE
OMA Unveils a Striking Expansion of the New Museum

The global firm masterminds a thoughtful ground-up structure that dramatically contrasts the New...

Hotel
Opening Shot: New Orleans’s Maison de la Luz

Atelier Ace and Studio Shamshiri bring a modern, global aesthetic to the Crescent City.