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National #08 - 09.02.2021Latest Stories

A multifaceted blocky building at Ryerson University
Reach For The Sky

The Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex towers over Ryerson University with textured aluminum

A long rounded building with glazed facade and a red staircase inside at the university of oxford
Clear Glass, Full Heart, Can't Lose

A pair of new buildings at the University of Oxford adds modern spice to a 1,000-year-old institution

red brick dorms on the University of Oklahoma campus
Replace or Renovate?

A preservation petition at the University of Oklahoma questions what’s best for the environment

the Mid-Manhattan Library Branch, a squat stone building with a green copper topper
Magic Trick

Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle’s transformation of the Mid-Manhattan Library looks easy

metal poles in a field arranged for exhibit columbus
New Middles

The 2021 edition of Exhibit Columbus asks “What Is the Future of the Middle City?”

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex, with a grated facade
Grate Design

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex is wrapped in a shimmering second skin

The low boxy exterior of the corvallis museum, with triangular bay windows
Small Wonder

High design meets folksy tastes at Oregon’s Corvallis Museum, with surprising results

A long white school building designed by MOS
The Straight and Narrow?

The New York–based MOS coaxes the unexpected out of the everyday

An aerial photo of sendero verde, an affordable housing block under construction in brick
Big Passive

At Sendero Verde, Handel Architects brings Passive House design to high-rise affordable housing

the demolition of the pruitt-igoe housing complexes, one of many projects by minoru yamasaki that was ultimately demolished
Architectural Autofiction

An experimental biography of Minoru Yamasaki runs counter to the familiar—and tragic—appraisals of his career

A truss destroyed in the notre dame fire, raised at the national building museum
Truss The Process

Carpenters and students replicate an original timber truss from Notre-Dame using centuries-old techniques

A los angeles bus driver with a high vis vest
Safe Passage

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation invests in a gender-equity study and its implementation

A sign for a green building rating, LEED and local, next to each toher
BEER Goggles And MisLEEDing Readings

New York’s proliferation of green building rating systems raises the question of what’s being measured

The audrey irmas pavilion, a polygonal building tilting towards a wide street
Not Strictly Sacred

OMA expands the Wilshire Boulevard Temple with its first major Los Angeles building

New Front Yahd

Sasaki’s extensive renovation of Boston City Hall Plaza is moving along

Interior photo of the useless architecture show at the noguchi museum showing sculptures wedged between two carved columns
Form Over Function

Noguchi: Useless Architecture turns structure into useful sculpture

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