Photo © Washington Post It’s not every day that a contract chair becomes front-page news, but that’s exactly what happened last week when actor/director/Republican Clint Eastwood brought one with him for his appearance at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. During his speech, Eastwood pretended to address an invisible President Obama seated next to him during a mock conversation that has confounded many pundits, delegates, and viewers across both party lines. Photo courtesy Design Within Reach Fans of design may have recognized the seat as part of the popular Baba Collection, designed in 1992 by the Italian architect/designer Sergio

NBBJ’s design for Amazon’s new and massive Seattle headquarters was revealed in greater detail this month. Renderings of the project’s street level presence, unveiled in a meeting with the city’s Design Review Board (DRB) on August 14, show asymmetrical towers, mid-rise buildings of varying size, and mid-block open spaces, representing a scale of development unprecedented in Seattle’s history. The 3.3-million-square-foot project spanning three city blocks is on track to start construction next year. It will consolidate Amazon’s currently dispersed operations in leased buildings into an owner-developed campus between Seattle’s commercial core and the neighborhood of South Lake Union. The project’s

Architects are increasingly finding opportunities for inventive work in one of the world's most densely populated regions. The exterior of the Hong Kong outpost of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). The former justice building was adapted for SCAD by Leo A. Daly.

Photographer Michael Moran has sent Record some of his shots from the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Toyo Ito's pavilion takes the exhibition's top honor and the U.S. gets a special mention.

Neither Venice nor architecture is particularly known for its nightlife, but the opening days of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale offered ample excuses for loosening one’s collar. Former OMA architect Ole Scheeren's floating "Archipelago" hosted a screening of a film about, well, Ole Scheeren. A torrential downpour on Sunday didn’t keep a diehard crowd away from the Venice home of Washington lobbyists and art collectors Heather and Anthony Podesta, where Henry Urbach was being toasted as the new director of the Glass House, Philip Johnson’s former estate in New Canaan, Connecticut. “Please eat,” the hostess vigorously implored guests including architects

Our intrepid correspondent picks some of his favorite offerings from the national pavilions at this year's Biennale.

Two architects boldly take digital fabrication technology where it has never gone before. Visualization by Behnaz Farahi and Connor Wingfield A rendering of robotic construction underway on the moon's surface. Far-flung building sites usually present design challenges, but for their latest project, Los Angeles-based architects Anders Carlson and Neil Leach are working with conditions that include solar wind, radiation, and a literal lack of atmosphere. Along with fellow USC professors Behrokh Khoshnevis (Engineering) and Madhu Thangavelu (Astronautics), the duo recently won a highly competitive NASA research award to develop robotic construction technologies for inhospitable extraterrestrial environments, such as the Moon

Aric Chen digs through the multiple layers of David Chipperfield's Common Ground exhibition in our first post from Venice Anupama Kundoo's Feel the Ground. Wall House: One to One at the Arsenale Despite beginning and ending with gusts of rain, yesterday’s first day of previews at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale mostly cast a sweltering sun over Common Ground, the main exhibition at the Arsenale. At first reckoning, the theme, chosen by exhibition director and UK architect David Chipperfield, doesn’t sound all that different from Kazuyo Seijima’s intriguingly prosaic People Meet in Architecture from 2010. But while Seijima’s Biennale will

This article originally appeared in the Chinese edition of Architectural Record. Image courtesy Woods Bagot China Southern Airlines, the largest carrier in Asia, plans to build not just a new corporate campus, but an entire small city as its headquarters on the outskirts of Guangzhou. Named China Southern Airport City, the project is scheduled to begin rising on a 988-acre site about four miles from Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport as early as the end of this year. The international architecture practice Woods Bagot is designing the master plan, after winning a competition that included Paul Andreu and Zaha Hadid. The