To accommodate growth, Helsinki and Stockholm are converting old harbors and industrial areas into mixed-use neighborhoods.

The 11th Alvar Aalto Symposium in Jyväskylä, Finland, focused on the work of architects from far-flung places such as South Africa, Burkina Faso, Thailand, India, Russia, Senegal, Tanzania, Chile, and Kansas, and examined how architects are engaging communities in need.

“Architect” has become Hollywood’s go-to job title if you need to tell an audience in a word that a man is eccentric, intelligent, and makes too much money to qualify for the earned income tax credit. I'd like to see the role of architect filled by a woman for a change, and minus, please, the character flaws.

One visitor's take on the Ron Arad retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

Singapore has learned that design sells.  This small island-nation is promoting the value of architecture, planning, and all the related arts in an attempt to put itself on a new, service-based international map.  It's working.

Today was the final public hearing on the highly controversial plans for Atlantic Yards, a proposed 22-acre mixed-use development in Brooklyn. To its champions, the project represents revitalization, job growth, and tax revenue; to opponents, the massive injection is a bad idea poorly executed, signifying nothing less than

Songdo City is rising about an hour's drive outside Seoul, one of the most ambitious urban planning and construction projects in the world today.  Will they be ready?

An owner asks for a building to play his collection of lp recordings, serves coffee, and creates a cool space that sounds divine.

Chicago's preeminent architectural bookshop is in danger of closing its doors. If that happens, what would we lose?

In a sign of the times, AEC software vendor Bentley has replaced its 2009 user event, the BE Conference, with a free online seminar series that started late last month. “We were hearing from customers that their travel budgets were very restricted,” says Chris Barron, the company’s vice president of