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Photo © University of St. Thomas Frank Gehry’s Winton Guesthouse on the University of St. Thomas campus, 2011.  Most buildings never leave their original sites, but Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guesthouse may be facing its second move within six years. And another remarkable house from the banks of Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka—the 1972 Dayton House by Romaldo Giurgola—is poised for an ambitious relocation of its own. Photo © Rollin R. LaFrance/Courtesy Mitchell|Giurgola Architects Romaldo Giurgola’s 1970 Dayton Residence in Wayzata, Minnesota There, wealthy shoreline communities have a history of great architectural patronage, as well as stunning losses. In Wayzata, Frank Lloyd

Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro stunned the world on December 17, 2014, when they announced that the United States and Cuba would restore diplomatic relations after 55 years of estrangement.

The pace of construction in the K-12 market is expected to quicken over the coming years as the fiscal condition of city and state governments improves and the economy continues to rebound. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].

Steven Holl Architects will design the master plan for the 14-acre Fayez S. Sarofim Campus.

Design-oriented nonprofits and foundations choose their best contributions to the built environment last year. The Design Trust for Public Space erected the Boogie Down Booth as part of its Under the Elevated project. The temporary installation transformed an underused space beneath subway tracks in the South Bronx into a seated bus stop with solar-powered lighting and directional speakers playing local artists’ music. The end of one year and the start of a new one belong to the makers of lists—of most fascinating people, brightest ideas, and biggest red-carpet disasters. At RECORD, we decided to combine clickbait and goodwill, asking a

Photo © James S. Russell The Philharmonie de Paris under construction in October 2014.  The day of the gala opening of his design for the Philharmonie de Paris, January 14, Jean Nouvel announced he would not attend. The building is not ready for orchestras, he said in a statement released by his office. “There were no acoustic tests in the concert hall. The schedule did not allow the architectural and technical requirements to be respected.” The 2,400-seat concert hall rises like a shiny iceberg of mottled metal and rippling polished stainless steel in the Parc de la Villette at

A conversation in Singapore explores architects' roles. Photo © Aaron Pocock The National Design Centre in Singapore, designed by SCDA.  Design got personal at an event organized by Asia Design Forum (ADF) at Singapore’s National Design Centre in November. A diverse group of speakers looked at how architecture and design can affect people—changing the way residents engage with their environment or altering the emotional condition of the designer herself. Participants, who ranged from a former government official to an art gallery owner, focused on different scales, looking at that of the community or a single brick. But all of

The exhibition center as it looks today. Last spring, the sound of hammers started up, reverberating along the wide pedestrian avenues of the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow (known to Muscovites as VDNKh). After decades of neglect, the city of Moscow has begun the process of renovating the most iconic pavilions of its 13,000-acre, Stalin-era exhibition center. The cheap cafes and makeshift booths selling seeds or electronics that had occupied the ornate spaces built to showcase Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and others have been dismantled. A couple of slick new food courts and the city’s chicest McDonald’s have gone in.But, say