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This story originally appeared on ENR.com. Image courtesy Wikipedia The university projected that renovation of the 120-year-old Natural History Building would cost around $70 million and involve replacing substantial portions of the floor.

With his latest Dark Knight film, Christopher Nolan gives us a Gotham for our times. Photo © Ron Phillips/Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics Christian Bale as Batman on a Gotham rooftop in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. For nearly 75 years, Batman and Gotham City have been symbiotically connected, one essential to the formation of the other. And each new iteration of the character has brought with it a new city. Gotham began life as an exaggerated New York, but since the 1980s, Batman has become darker and more psychological, and with him, the city has become more conceptual and

The Museum of Modern Art charts 100 years of design growing up in a new exhibition. Jens S. Jensen, Boy on the Wall, Hammarkullen, Gothenburg, 1973 A beaming child in a puffy jacket dangles from a stark housing block’s concrete wall in a black-and-white 1973 photo by Jens S. Jensen. Blown up to a giant scale at the entrance to the fifth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the image’s contrasting playfulness and severe architecture mark the entrance to the exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000. It’s joined by a 1927 film

This story originally appeared on ENR.com. Image courtesy of Amtrak Rendering of the proposed Union Station interior.

David Wright House Even casual fans of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture are familiar with the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral ramp, which wraps around a six-story atrium. Wright designed the Guggenheim in 1943, though it didn’t open until 1959, shortly after the architect’s death. But the New York museum’s famous spiral inspired a little-known house that Wright designed for his son David in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix. Preservationists say the house could be torn down if a new buyer isn’t found soon. Related links Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House a Tough Sell Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition Opens at the Guggenheim Frank

Curtis Fentress with a model of his 2001 design for the Incheon International Airport in Seoul. Curtis Fentress had just three weeks to come up with a design for Denver International Airport. Completed in 1995, the airport—with its distinctive peaked white-fabric roof—helped put Fentress and his Denver-based firm in the architectural spotlight. Since then, the 64-year-old North Carolina native has built a reputation as a forward-thinking designer of airports and other civic buildings. His airports, including South Korea’s Incheon International, are consistently top-rated in passenger surveys. Currently under construction is a $1.4 billion expansion of Los Angeles International Airport, the

Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, founders of the eminent Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, announced on Monday that they have passed the baton to president and principal Daniel K. McCoubrey and principal Nancy Rogo Trainer. Under McCoubrey's and Trainer's leadership, the firm is now known as VSBA. Scott Brown spoke with Architectural Record about the long-planned transition, her continued writing and research, and Venturi's retirement. Daniel McCoubrey and his team at VSBA completed the renovations and additions to Pennsylvania's Allentown Art Museum in 2012. Even logical transitions often come as a surprise. Take the news that the

Nearly 400 people took our survey on the new health-care law and its implications for architects. Respondents had mixed feelings about the law, although most anticipate changes in health-care design. Fifty-five percent of respondents support the Supreme Court’s ruling; in comparison, a recent CNN poll found that 50 percent of Americans agreed with the decision.

Image courtesy Miller Hull Partnership Robert Hull was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. Now, he’s returning to the country to build a health clinic for a nonprofit organization. Seattle architect Robert Hull remembers Afghanistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a poor but peaceful country, with people who were kind and tolerant of foreigners—a far cry from the war-torn nation of today. Image courtesy Miller Hull Partnership Hull’s design for the 20,000-square-foot clinic is based on a traditional caravanserai, a kind of walled roadside inn for weary travelers. Related links Special Report:

We recently checked in with Michael Strogoff, FAIA, a California-based management consultant and former chair of the advisory group for the AIA Practice Management Knowledge Community, about how the new health-care law will impact firms, individual architects, and health-care architecture. Strogoff anticipates critical shifts for the market in the coming years, as demand grows for outpatient facilities and lags for multi-billion dollar hospital complexes. Image courtesy Michael Strogoff Related links Building Types Study: Health Care Architects, Industry Experts React to Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affordable Care Act SURVEY RESULTS: Architects and Design Professionals Weigh in on New Health-Care Law LM: