Our features are the cream of our content, involving our most in-depth coverage of a variety of topics relevant to the architectural profession. In 2013 we investigated tall timber structures, urban nightscapes, and the latest developments in materials science, among other subjects. We also studied a number of important buildings completed during the year, and hosted a Houston Astrodome reuse design ideas competition.
The Buffalo Boom
After decades of stagnation and decline, this Rust Belt city is finally on the upswing.
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 Across the country, architects are taking a leading role in laying out the future of cities. |
 Designers from coast to coast are breaking through the old distinction between grey and green infrastructure to establish strategies that apply a mix of the two. |
 Lighting designers are applying the skills of their profession to further the goals of urban design, creating safer, more stimulating, and better functioning cities. |
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 The jury has deliberated and the results of The Architect’s Newspaper and YKK AP’s Astrodome reuse design ideas competition are in. |
 Structural engineers are exploring an unexpected material for high-rise construction, one that may have significant environmental benefits: wood. |
 Streetcar, trolley, and rail projects are stirring development in the Midwest. |
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 How small developers are reshaping Los Angeles’ neighborhood character. |
 Bill Millard plumbs the field of materials science in search of the next transformative technology. |
 Softening Modernism’s Hard Edge Contemporary landscape interventions are transforming midcentury buildings and plazas to address their urbanistic failings. |
