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.
Michael Leckie, founder of Vancouver, B.C.-based Leckie Studio, joins DESIGN:ED to discuss the design of Lantern House (a 2025 Record House) and how design can be influenced and informed by geographical context.
Now honored for a ‘radical’ housing complex for seniors, this is the second time that the firm has been awarded the UK’s top architecture prize following its 2013 win for the restoration of Astley Castle.
Shows to note include a survey of maps by Ursula K. Le Guin at London’s Architectural Association and the first U.S. exhibition dedicated to French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York.
Schjetnan and the Mexico City–based firm are the third recipients of the biennial prize for landscape architecture, following Julie Bargmann and Kongjian Yu.
Architects Louis T. Lemay and Dan Kaplan join DESIGN:ED to discuss the recent partnership of Canada's Lemay and New York–based FXCollaborative and the two firms' unified approach to urban development.