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In Philadelphia, Demolition of a Louis Kahn-Designed Hospital Raises Thorny Preservation Questions

The Samuel Radbill Building was a key early work by Kahn and Anne Tyng

Izzy Kornblatt

February 21, 2022

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Since 2010, Philadelphia has lost a number of notable modernist buildings.

Though Beloved, Midcentury Modern Houses Are Vanishing

James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus

February 20, 2022

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The sudden demolition of Marcel Breuer’s influential 1945 Geller House is symptomatic of the larger trend of disappearing midcentury modern homes and the informal lifestyles they promoted.

Helmut Jahn’s Final Tower Rises in Chicago

Redesigned before Jahn’s death last spring, 1000M features a gently curved façade that gestures to Grant Park

Pansy Schulman

February 18, 2022

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After the pandemic shuttered construction on the late architect's project in the spring of 2020, the 805-foot tall luxury apartment tower is now on track for completion by 2024.

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Call for Applications Opens for the U.S. Pavilion at Venice’s 2023 Architecture Biennale

The 18th international biennale exhibition, curated by Lesley Lokko, will run from May to November of 2023

Ilana Herzig

February 18, 2022

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The competition to create the U.S. Pavilion at next year’s architecture biennale is open only to non profits and educational organizations.

At the Super Bowl, Designer Es Devlin and Dr. Dre Celebrate the Architectural Culture of Compton

The halftime show set featured landmarks of Los Angeles music history

Deane Madsen

February 17, 2022

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The British designer and Dr. Dre highlighted notable architectural landmarks including the Compton Courthouse and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial of Harold Williams's 1977 Compton Civic Center.

February 2022 Editor's Letter: More Than Meets the Eye

February 17, 2022

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Three late great thinkers expanded contemporary ideas of how societies can thrive.

For France’s Sciences Po, Moreau Kusunoki Inserts a Glassy Pavilion into a Historic Monastery

The historic school's brand new Paris campus opened in January

Andrew Ayers

February 16, 2022

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The campus's inauguration has allowed Sciences Po to concentrate its research activities and newer diploma programs at a single site.

AIA Announces Winners of 2022 Architecture Awards

Izzy Kornblatt Pansy Schulman

February 15, 2022

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The winners of the AIA’s 2022 Architecture Awards span from the modernization of Seattle’s Space Needle to a high school in suburban Massachusetts to the new U.S. embassy in London.

SHoP Drops Historic Union Bid But Labor Efforts Continue

Pansy Schulman

February 14, 2022

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Architectural Workers United has announced that they are withdrawing their petition to unionize the New York-based architecture firm SHoP, but at least six other firms in the city are reported to be organizing.

Review of 'Momentum of Light'

By Francis Kéré and Iwan Baan

Josephine Minutillo

February 14, 2022

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Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun.