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George Brown College Waterfront Campus

May 16, 2015

In 2012, George Brown College, an urban community college in Toronto, built a waterfront campus for its school of health sciences. Representing a 40 percent expansion of the overall campus, the new 450,000-square-foot, $140-million building responds to rising demand for health-care professionals, in particular those who are preparing for a collaborative practice. By uniting the schools of Dental Health, Heath and Wellness, Health Management, and Nursing and creating strategic social spaces shared by all student bodies, the facility refutes the silo mentality that had kept these related departments from intersecting. Students traveling diverse paths now meet each other easily, build

Laura Raskin

May 16, 2015

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Boston is full of co-working centers, incubators, and labs, but most are housed within one of the city's 50 institutions of higher education, cloaked with exclusivity or even anonymity simply by association. Others are part of a particular company, perhaps relegated to the corner of a lobby or makeshift space. District Hall, the result of a public-private partnership, belongs to everyone, and it's a smash hit, not just an idealistic showpiece for the city. The bright, airy 12,000-square-foot building on the South Boston waterfront, across from Diller, Scofidio + Renfro's Institute of Contemporary Art, is an innovation center unaffiliated with

Top 10 Big-Ticket Buildings

A list of the 10 most expensive projects under construction in the U.S.

May 16, 2015

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These projects are ranked on the basis of hard construction costs (including labor and materials, but excluding equipment, land, and design fees). Construction for these projects started between January 1, 2013, and February 28, 2015.

Public-Private Partnerships

Blurred Lines: As public-private partnerships come to dominate the urban realm, who decides what gets built?

Ronda Kaysen

May 16, 2015

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If all goes as planned, Midtown Manhattan will soon add a high-rise to its skyline substantially taller than the Empire State Building.

Collector's Edition: Chateau La Coste

In southern France, a real-estate investor and art patron reimagines a vineyard where architecture and sculpture thrive.

Suzanne Stephens

May 16, 2015

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It's not often that art, architecture, and wine-making come together as a cultural statement. Unless, of course it occurs in France, which prides itself on its own special savoir vivre. Ironically, the person behind this sensual conjunction at Chateau La Coste in Provence, where a winery has been enlivened with works of architecture and sculpture, is an Irishman, Patrick (Paddy) McKillen.

Mega Patron

Philanthropist Eli Broad gives big but expects control.

James S. Russell, FAIA

May 16, 2015

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Eli Broad has his name on several buildings by high-profile architects, including The Broad in Los Angeles by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opening this fall.

Modernism, Latin Style

Justin McGuirk

May 16, 2015

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A revelatory exhibition at MoMA in New York highlights South America's innovative architecture Church in Atlantida, Uruguay, by Eladio Dieste (1958). Sixty years after its exhibition Latin American Architecture Since 1945, the Museum of Modern Art is picking up the story where it left off. But the sequel, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, is on a different order of ambition. Where the first show covered a mere decade, this one spans a quarter of a century during the most architecturally fertile period in the region's history. As a backdrop, two factors propel the architectural agenda. The first is unprecedented

Cathleen McGuigan

May 16, 2015

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Beginning with an innovative multi-unit housing project he built in Montreal nearly 50 years ago, Moshe Safdie, this year's AIA Gold Medal–winner, presides over a successful global practice, creating large-scale mixed-use complexes while keeping a firm hand on nearly every aspect of design.

The High Life

The new super-slender, supertall residential skyscrapers are emblematic of high demand and new money flooding into the market for architecture.

Jerry Adler

May 16, 2015

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As you traverse the streets of Midtown Manhattan, the new skyscraper known as 432 Park Avenue pops in and out of view unexpectedly, hidden behind the Waldorf-Astoria at one moment, then looming menacingly over Lever House'a giant watchtower of blindingly white concrete with the proportions of an elongated toothpaste box stood on end.