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Heavily damaged by the 2010 earthquake, the Iron Market, a regal 19th-century structure in Port-au-Prince, has been miraculously revived by architect John McAslan. Photo © Danick Verret Click on the slide show button to view more images. One year after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, many areas remain in shambles. Yet in the throbbing center of Port-au-Prince, there is at least one success story: the resurrection of the Iron Market, a striking historic landmark that reopened on January 11. The building’s remarkable, $12 million restoration was overseen by the U.K.-based architect John McAslan and funded by the Irish billionaire Denis

Photo © Stephen J. Kelley/World Monuments The Trashigang Dzong fortress in Bhutan, South Asia, is one of the sites that will be protected. Two preservation groups have teamed up to launch a $1 million global initiative to protect historic sites damaged by natural or manmade disasters. Photo © Stephen J. Kelley/World Monuments Fund The Trashigang Dzong fortress in Bhutan. Related Links: Dutch Firms Wins Preservation Prize WMF Announces 2010 Watch List The World Monuments Fund, a New York-based nonprofit, and the Prince Claus Fund, an Amsterdam-based entity supported by the Dutch government, have each promised to contribute $500,000 to their

Christine Cipriani Wayland High School, designed by The Architects Collaborative, opened in 1960. With the exception of the field house, the complex will be razed.

A conference organized by Brian MacKay-Lyons aims to push locavore design to the forefront. Photo © Manuel Schnell In lieu of his annual "Ghost Lab" design-build workshops, MacKay-Lyons will host a summer conference at his Nova Scotia farm. In the summer of 1994, Nova Scotia architect Brian MacKay-Lyons and a teaching colleague, Richard Kroeker, took their students at Dalhousie University in Halifax to MacKay-Lyons’s farm and taught them how to actually build a structure with their own hands. It was the first “Ghost Lab,” so named because the land’s rocky ruins mark the ghost of a village, a European settlement

Photo © David Hathcox Photography Amanda Burden, the NYC planning commissioner, was one of 15 speakers at the 22nd annual Accent on Architecture Gala in Washington, D.C. She received the Keystone Award. On February 4, more than 400 architects, planners, developers, and journalists attended the 22nd annual Accent on Architecture Gala in Washington, D.C. The black-tie dinner hosted by the American Architectural Foundation (AAF) will likely be remembered as a night of impressive grandiloquence. On the program were representatives from government, the private sector, the AIA, and the AAF. The 15 speakers included Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment

Organized by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Solar Decathlon is a competition held every two years that invites university teams to design solar-powered homes, which they then construct on the Mall as part of a public expo.

A federal lawsuit filed in October 2010 against the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and other defendants, focusing on allegedly fraudulent claims of the LEED rating system, has been amended. Filed February 7th, 2011, the amended complaint has been boiled down to a claim of false advertising, and is no longer a class-action suit. As with the original lawsuit (see USGBC, LEED Targeted by Class-Action Suit), the amended version focuses on a critique by Henry Gifford, a mechanical systems consultant, that USGBC falsely claims that LEED guarantees energy savings in LEED-certified buildings. Click to enlarge + This graph from the

Three years and $50 million after work first began, the New York Public Library has revealed the fully renovated facade of the landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue.

Today, the American Institute of Architects announced that it has elevated 104 members to its College of Fellows, in addition to naming six international architects honorary fellows. Fewer than 2,700 of the AIA’s 80,000 members are fellows. The honor recognizes architects who have made a significant contribution to the profession and to society; candidates also are required to have been AIA members for at least 10 years. Honorary fellowships are given to “architects of esteemed character and distinguished achievements who are neither U.S. citizens nor U.S. residents, and who do not primarily practice architecture within the domain of the Institute.”

The White House has launched a package of proposals—including a new tax credit and grant competition among states and cities—that aim to make commercial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient over 10 years. The "Better Buildings Initiative," which President Obama announced on February 3 during an appearance at Penn State University, is targeting commercial buildings, which the White House says account for about 20 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. Obama said the plan could save businesses nearly $40 billion over the next decade in lower energy costs. The plan has several components, some of which will require congressional action.