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Case Study: Adapt and Case Study 2.0 offer a fire resilience–oriented riff on the famed midcentury program instigated to address the post-World War II housing shortage.

‘From these embers, we can help communities remain or, through silence and complicity, facilitate their erasure,’ writes Victor Jones.

Russell Fortmeyer, a former RECORD editor and frequent contributor, is part of a winning nine-person research team exploring how building facades can act as air purifiers.

Employing membrane-assisted radiant cooling, the scalable structure, developed by a team that included Henning Larsen and researchers from U Penn, will remain on view until the end of this month.

The Oberlander Prize–winning founder of celebrated Beijing practice Turenscape and originator of the revolutionary ‘sponge cities’ concept was 62.

The Dublin firm's Anthony Timberlands Center demonstrates the poetic and expressive possibilities of wood construction.

The floating public plaza is making a transatlantic journey to Belém, Brazil, where it will serve as a focal point of the upcoming COP30 climate talks in November.

Residential landscapes by Surfacedesign, Design Workshop, and LaGuardia Design Group repair the land, heal ecosystems, and look good while doing it.

Located in Redwood City, 500 County Center is the first mass-timber civic building in the U.S. to achieve net zero energy.