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View of the Kengo Kuma-designed National Stadium

Let the Games Begin

Construction of 2020 Olympic venues complete as cancellation fears loom

March 12, 2020 • Development, International, News

Rendering of 13-story headquarters with glass brise-soleil facade and public plaza, for lululemon

And Streeeeeetch

Morphosis designs high-tech headquarters for lululemon in Vancouver

March 11, 2020 • Architecture, International, Unveiled

Portraits of Doris Sung (left) and Alvin Huang (right), the newest leaders at USC

Top Dog Trojans

USC Architecture appoints Doris Sung, Alvin Huang as program directors

March 3, 2020 • Architecture, Education, News, West

Gallery with obelisk sculpture, brick wall with wedged colorful garments, and a carousel in the background

A Monumental Exhibition

Solo exhibition at ICA Philadelphia explores our link to monuments

March 2, 2020 • Art, East, On View

All Said and Done

Hufton + Crow snaps final photos of ZHA’s One Thousand Museum in Miami

February 26, 2020 • Architecture, Southeast, Unveiled

Rendering of top penthouse floors of 200 Amsterdam

A Bit Off the Top, Please

Court ruling against Upper West Side tower could take down 20 floors

February 19, 2020 • Development, East, News

People working with soil in large greenhouse with pink lighting

Old Town Roads

Rem Koolhaas goes country at the Guggenheim

February 14, 2020 • Architecture, East, News, Urbanism

People crowding in and around a rooftop pool with skyscrapers visible in background

Cultural Lensing

Access for All aims to inspire New York through São Paulo’s urban design

February 12, 2020 • East, On View, Urbanism

Finished sculpture with person standing inside

Pop Architecture

New York Clearing highlights the East River, with help from K-pop band BTS

February 6, 2020 • East, On View

Richard Burton, John Makepeace, and Frei Otto posing with timber structure model

Technological Timber

Architectural Association launches experimental Wood Lab

February 5, 2020 • Education, International, News, Technology

Rendering of three-story timber building accessible by bridge with green roof and solar panels

Working on Water

Rotterdam’s harbor will host a floating timber office building

January 20, 2020 • Architecture, International, News

Rendering of glass-enclosed gasholder containing habitat for alligators

It's a Gas

London developer could turn Victorian gasholder into an alligator farm

January 20, 2020 • International

Bird's-eye view of the timber bridge set upon granite piers across the Providence River

Building Bridges

inFORM studio and BuroHappold’s Providence Pedestrian Bridge links and transforms downtown

January 17, 2020 • Development, East, Open

An adobe home

Owe'neh Bupingeh

Ohkay Owingeh tribe restores a historic central village in New Mexico

January 16, 2020 • Open, Southwest

Image of elongated maglev train on rails above ground level, part of a high-speed rail network

High-Speed Pushback

Maryland towns band together to fight high-speed rail route

January 9, 2020 • East, News, Transportation

Rendering of a timber structure supported by beams

Warehouse Wins

LTL blends past, present, and future in the Telluride Center for the Arts

January 8, 2020 • Architecture, News, West

Rendering of the park from above, with waterfront greenery and winding bridge-like paths

A Win for the Weaves

MVRDV to redevelop Seoul waterfront as sprawling urban park

December 27, 2019 • International, Landscape Architecture, News

Rendering of complex at street level, with 2-story housing units

Santa Came Early

Santa Fe live-work complex offers artists affordable housing amid critical shortage

December 24, 2019 • Development, News, Southwest