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Horizon Lines

How Safdie Architects created a daring new skyscraper that reaches both up—and across—the skyline

Jeanne Gang – Building on the Past

Internationally renowned architect Jeanne Gang is transforming neglected old structures into modern marvels.

Architects Pick Their Favorite Building Material

Henry Ford, the father of assembly-line manufacturing, had a saying: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”

In Conversation: FRANK GEHRY

Fully engaged and working nonstop as he turns 91, the most famous architect alive won’t take projects in China or Saudi Arabia (“You don’t get paid”) and is reimagining a big chunk of downtown L.A. Is there a school of Gehry now? “God, no.”

Lose Your Heart

Janis hall loves old houses.

Stickley, Harley-Davidson, And The Road Taken

Long-time readers might remember an article about my family’s house in the Adirondacks in American Bungalow No. 58.

Building for Tomorrow, Today

Radical change in the building industry is desperately needed. And it cannot happen without the building trades.

Building on Brand

The Bauhaus turned 100 this year, and a crop of museum buildings sprang up for the celebration.

Interspecies Ethic

In probing the relationship between humans and nature, two major exhibitions question the very foundations of design practice.

Signs of Life

Designers, curators, and entrepreneurs are scrambling to make sense of motherhood in a culture that’s often hostile to it.

The Circular Office

Major manufacturers are exploring every avenue to close the loop on workplace furniture.

No New Buildings

The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.

Built On Memory - A Couple Transforms An Old Pole Barn Into A Place That Celebrates Family And Country

As Adrian and Magdalena Luchini’s life took root in St. Louis—after a few years, it was clear that the couple was here to stay—it was important to Adrian to try to capture the life he had growing up in the Argentinian countryside. And what better place to do that than at Las Tres Marías, the couple’s second home, in Godfrey, Illinois? “I suppose that when I saw that I would never recuperate what I had in my childhood, I became more determined to reconstruct it—to give that kind of exposure to my children,” says Adrian. “To me, that is what a territory is all about, when you go to a place and feel like you’re a part of it.”

Bloom Service - A flower-shaped brutalist beauty in Geneva gets a refresh

Tucked between the extensive campus of Geneva's University Hospital and a huddle of associated medical institutions, laboratories and surgeries, the Avenue de la Roseraie is trod by few casual visitors to the Swiss city. And yet here - out of sight in a small car park is an extraordinary structure that, situated elsewhere, would surely draw the attention of architectural students like bees to a nectar-rich flower. Horticulturalists, too, perhaps, for whom a building nicknamed La Tulipe might well incite curiosity.

Second Nature -A remodelled museum in Lisbon, by Kengo Kuma & Associates, meshes Japanese and Portuguese influences to create a space that sits in harmony with its surroundings

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's complex in Lisbon has been one of the city's best-loved landmarks since it opened in the 1960s. The foundation aims to improve quality of life through art, charity, science and education, and its Lisbon campus encompasses a main office, library, scientific research centre and contemporary art museum, Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM), which reopens this month following an extensive four-year renovation by Japanese studio Kengo Kuma & Associates. Designed in collaboration with landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic, the update cleverly reconfigures the space and extends the foundation's gardens to craft a more cohesive relationship between the existing structures.

Cane and Able- Fusing traditional craftsmanship with contemporary vision, design studio Ibuku demonstrates the versatility of bamboo at a serene Bali villa

Over the last decade, Bali-based studio Ibuku, headed up by designer Elora Hardy, has become a leading expert in bamboo architecture, its output encompassing everything from a traditional Sumbanese house and a yoga and meditation space to playful treehouses and a riverside café at an eco-friendly jungle retreat in Ubud. In 2021, the studio completed The Arc sports hall at the Green School in Bali (founded by Elora's father, designer John Hardy). Made from a series of arches spanning an impressive 19m, it was a pioneering feat of bamboo engineering.

Guest Editor Marcio Kogan - Marcio Kogan has been prolific since setting up his namesake studio in São Paulo in 1978 (it was renamed Studio MK27 at the turn of the century).

Marcio Kogan has been prolific since setting up his namesake studio in São Paulo in 1978 (it was renamed Studio MK27 at the turn of the century). The 72-year-old architect has since become synonymous with contemporary Brazilian chic, offering a sumptuous blend of raw, textured materials; clean geometric forms; effortless functionality; vernacular design features; and a deep knowledge and appreciation of the rich, tropical modernist architecture legacy of his home country.

Building Site

Sun Tower, China, by Open Architecture

Edge of Heaven

A cantilevered concrete house on the shores of West Vancouver offers a series of threshold moments

A temple to luxury

Designed by the late American architect Ed Tuttle, Aman’s Greek outpost is a heavenly hilltop retreat in the Peloponnese

Sun Catcher

Studio Weave’s first project in South Korea is a clifftop holiday home perfectly designed to capture a new day dawning over the East Sea

Bare Essentials

The pared-back Casa Primitiva fits in perfectly in its semi-rural Spanish context

Escape Route

A picturesque Mexican bolthole makes a dreamily idyllic retreat

Into the blue

Atelier Bow-Wow's latest collaboration with design-led property developer Oliaros is a free-flowing, art-filled holiday home on the Greek island of Antiparos

A fine mess

Former military buildings sold off as the armed forces modernise can be architectural gold dust to discerning developers, finds

Treasure Island

The latest addition to Japan’s Benesse Art Site, Tadao Ando’s Valley Gallery is a geometric gem that makes the most of its remote setting

Hide & Seek

Open Architecture’s perfectly considered projects either disappear into the landscape or become new landmarks

Green Gold

Yinka Shonibare’s new artists’ residency space, in a remote part of Nigeria, offers a lush landscape for cultural and creative discovery

View from the Top

Reggaeton superstar J Balvin’s villa, by architects 5 Sólidos, is a minimalist frame for Medellin’s mountainous vistas

Into the Wild

We take a walk in a Surrey garden that combines sharp architecture and naturalistic planting to great effect