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Realized in collaboration with Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, Philly’s newest art destination—emphatically not billed as a museum— showcases a rotating array of works by Alexander Calder for temporary display.

For October, RECORD visits a varied mix of projects that serve as cultural anchors in their respective communities, spanning from New Zealand to Kazakhstan to Astoria, Queens.

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.

An undulant screen of vertical fins greets visitors of the new Tselinny Center of Contem­porary Culture—the first private institution of its kind in Kazakhstan.

Designed by Paris-based Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects, the arched timber and glass building houses a gym and supermarket.

Constructed over a period of four years, the property includes a pair of wood-clad cottages and two outbuildings, with material inspiration coming from the pages of RECORD.

To close out a month of our latest Record Houses, we revisit an honored residence from the April 2003 issue designed by inaugural Architect of RECORD Awardee Thomas Phifer.

The first Architectural Record Awards also recognizes Caitlin Mueller as Innovator of the Year and Carlos Cerezo Davila as Rising Professional.

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

A central design element of the Milan firm’s design for Casa BFF is a soaring canopy supported by a series of slender steel columns.