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A view from the Huangpu River toward construction of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s White Magnolia Plaza in the North Bund.

10 Hudson Yards, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is nine stories out of the ground. It will reach 52 stories. The steel platform that is vital to the $20 billion Hudson Yards mega-project in Manhattan—what will allow three high-rise towers to be built atop of working railroad tracks on the eastern half of the site—is taking shape, after a slow start. For a time it seemed like the project would never happen at all; the development team was chosen in 2008, but groundbreaking didn’t occur until well after the recession, in late 2012. But on Thursday, large sections of the

Photo © Architectural Record Ed Mazria, founder and CEO of Architecture 2030. The internationally recognized Ed Mazria delivered a keynote address at the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago on Friday. His message to attendees: design with a purpose, because life depends on it. “Scientists are projecting that by 2047, that the coldest year after that date that you will experience will be warmer than the warmest year you’ve ever experienced,” Mazria said. Avoiding that possibility—and leveraging design, architecture, and building professions to make the built environment as “green” as possible—was Mazria’s message.Mazria is founder of Architecture 2030, a think tank

Photo © Architectural Record Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on stage at the AIA Convention in his city. Two days after announcing that Chicago will host its own architecture biennial in 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel opened the 2014 AIA Convention here this morning, where he called both the convention and the field of architecture essential to the future of all cities, and Chicago in particular. “In the same way that one hundred years ago Chicago was the epicenter of modern architecture, Chicago is now at the center of rethinking livable, sustainable, and beautiful cities,” Emanuel said. “Your effort is essential to

Photo © Architectural Record Theaster Gates addresses the crowd at the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago. The internationally-acclaimed artist, potter, educator and breaker of rules, Theaster Gates, addressed the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago today and argued that his role, as well as that of artists and design professionals, is to push the envelope. Related links Newsmaker Interview: Theaster Gates AIA Convention 2014: Jeanne Gang’s Sense of Purpose AIA Convention 2014: Rahm Emanuel Says Your Efforts are Essential “I don’t feel constrained by being trained as a planner,” Gates said. “As a result I’ve been breaking a lot of rules.

Last month the Related Companies founder and chairman gave $30.5 million to the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he serves on the board of directors. Ross spoke with RECORD about his donation and the accompanying launch of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.  Last year, real estate magnate Stephen M. Ross began a spending spree of the most public and benevolent kind. In September, several months after signing the Giving Pledge to donate at least half of his wealth to charity, the chairman and founder of Related Companies—the real estate company currently executing the $20 billion redevelopment of

After the International Union of Architects rejected the RIBA's call to boycott the Israeli architects’ association, RIBA set up a committee to look at its own practices.  The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has decided to set up a committee to consider its own role “in engaging with communities facing civil conflict and natural disaster,” the Architects’ Journal has reported.The establishment of the International Committee Working Group is, in part, a face-saving measure that follows the RIBA’s controversial call to consider a boycott of its Israeli counterpart at the August meeting of the International Union of Architects’ (UIA)

Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of this year's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.  Stunning architecture—as well as no architecture at all—have earned slots on America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2014. Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been issuing this watch list of historically significant buildings and sites for which neglect, natural disaster, development pressure, and other phenomena put their continued existence at risk. This year’s newly released selections reveal the full breadth of preservationists’ interests. They are: Battle Mountain Sanitarium; Hot Springs, South DakotaBay Harbor’s East Island; Miami-Dade County, FloridaChattanooga State Office

Modular housing has already obscured most of the east facade of Barclays Center, long before the building has reached its full height. Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade. Next up was the SHoP-designed Barclays Center, where Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes the Democratic Party will hold its convention in