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As this issue highlights the inaugural Architectural Record Awards, as well as extraordinary examples of recently completed buildings, we are reminded of the potential of design.

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.

Following the announcement of the individual awardees, including Architect of RECORD Thomas Phifer, we reveal exceptional projects honored in 14 categories.

A pattern inspired by a 1909 Cartier brooch is engraved on the store’s undulant glazing.

Dmytro Soloviov documents buildings under threat by both Russian bombings and a domestic push to erase the Soviet past.

An excavator began tearing into the facade of the structure in advance of construction work on Trump’s planned ‘big, beautiful’ ballroom.

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.