Articles by Matthew Allen

CIBC’s new headquarters complex links two sites split by a busy rail corridor.

The cramped but acoustically blessed Powell Hall, home to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, celebrates its centennial with a grand new lobby and back-of-house extension.

The Chinese architects behind some American firms’ biggest projects are poised to step onto the global stage, writes Matthew Allen.

Daylight is smartly scooped and funneled into this modest—and aptly monikered—bluffside residence.

The sustainable centerpiece of this immense mixed-use development, master planned by Hariri Pontarini Architects, is an innovative deep-lake-water cooling system.

With its curtainlike facade, the seven-story Allied Music Centre provides vital back-of-house functions for the restored Massey Music Hall.

A honeycomb-shaped education facility showcases modern manufacturing machinery, and the people operating it.

Scandinavian efficiency, California Modernism, and the traditional Hawaiian lanai merge at a beachside abode near Honolulu.

An international cohort of architects led by Tatiana Bilbao collaborate to create market-rate houses that challenge conventional American living patterns.

Amid a freewheeling community of fabricators in Northern Thailand, Patcharada Inplang and Thongchai Chansamak source materials from forest treks and reimagine construction techniques.