Articles by Leopoldo Villardi

On the 25th anniversary of our annual award recognizing the very best up-and-coming firms, RECORD reflects on past winners and looks to the future.

A new spiritual home for a Pentecostal congregation in Gothenburg, Sweden, balances sacred and secular aesthetics.

The community-oriented project, comprising single-family residences, is replete with winding pathways and intimate gardens.

The project’s lucid celebration of craft and materiality came about through a seasoned ensemble of collaborators, from expert carpenters to ‘mudslinging’ plasterers.

Fourty-three stories high and over a quarter mile in length, the resort stretches out along one of the largest man-made archipelagos in the world.

The Sydney-based historian charts the atrium through the shifting nature of postwar architectural practice.

One Za'abeel—designed by Japan's oldest architecture firm, Nikken Sekkei—raises the bar in a city full of pastiche towers.

L'Observatoire International's lighting scheme for the Pelli Clarke & Partners–designed Mori JP Tower employs curves, lines, and gradients to elegant effect.

Sprawling and low-slung, the Thorne Residence is replete with nods to the region’s history—from hot-dip galvanized steel to sooty charred-wood cladding.

The once worst-ranked airport in the U.S. now boasts a bright and spacious terminal by HOK.