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The American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Center for Architecture today announced Benjamin Prosky as its new executive director.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is one of Modernism’s triumphs — perhaps the most successful campus ever created as a single International Style work.

Although Greenbuild 2015’s kickoff event was politically minded, the tone was anything but rancorous.

Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their concept for a new art museum, the Pritzker-winning firm’s first project in Canada, to provide a home for the expanding Vancouver Art Gallery.

The organizers of the first Dubai Design Week chose as its opening night speaker an architect who has never built in Dubai, despite having proposed several projects there.

Last week, New York real estate tycoon and art collector Aby Rosen offered a peek into the Seagram Building’s new neighbor: 100 East 53rd Street.

The United Arab Emirates says it will take steps to protect migrant workers, but are such measures enough? Photo © Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is taking steps to reform its labor laws, local authorities say.

As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s kickoff last month, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit design lab run by architects Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, was awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize. 

After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly

For Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, principals of the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA, innovation can occur long before a building is designed.