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Reality Check

Foster + Partners claims the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue is highly sustainable. If only that were true.

Building on Stricken Land

Revisiting Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation Visitors Center by Toro Arquitectos, 12 years later

Beyond Sustainability

We can’t engineer our way out of the climate crisis

Architecture 2030 Is Not Enough

Carbon accounting will only take us so far: The data reveals that architecture’s next challenge is to do more with less.

Mass Timber: It’s What’s for Dinner

The potentials and provocations of architecture’s favorite eco-material

Clarity Revisited 

Glass transparency and circularity should reshape how the industry operates

After Gentrification

American cities are 70 percent suburban by area. What can architects do about it?

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Human Disaster

Why were we caught unprepared by the Kahramanmaraş earthquake?

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Sarasota Schooling

Architecture Sarasota explores tropical modernism in search of key lessons for addressing the climate crisis

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Full Disclosure

AN speaks with SO – IL about its controversial job posting and wider structural issues in the profession

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Egypt’s Next Capital

A new government center is under construction in the desert east of Cairo. It has issues.

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Landscape as Infrastructure

Seeing landscape architecture as part of our nation’s essential infrastructure only deepens its relevance today

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RIP American Dream

Why you can’t afford a home, and why you shouldn’t want one

Three Women Deans

Recent academic departures offer lessons about how architectural education should change

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Cop Academy

An expanded scope for a training facility in Chicago raises questions about how—and if—architects should engage with carceral projects

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The Goldilocks Framework

How to respond to both population growth and climate change? High-density, low-rise housing plus current technologies offer one solution.

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Can Architects Learn From Generative Art?

As conversations about NFTs proliferate, lessons about algorithmic collaboration abound

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Viewing Machine

David Hammons’s impressive Day’s End fails to live up to the impossible hopes of a previous generation

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