Earlier this month, the first building in the U.S. permitted to treat rainwater for potable uses also became a Living Building—the highest level of ultra-green-building certification granted by the International Living Future Institute.

A graffiti-covered factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, may not seem the most likely of venues for classical music.

"Everything I do is aimed at dynamizing my work,” Carme Pinós declares, “because dynamism communicates lightness.”

“Iconic” may be the most overused word in architectural writing. Eye-popping new buildings are declared icons when the concrete has barely cured.

There’s a disconnect that runs through your mind when you set foot inside the Forum, an addition to Marvin Hall, the School of Architecture, Design & Planning at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

A vertical campus for a new urban university in Lima, Peru, rises to the occasion by fitting in.

Art breaks the rules” is an idea Pomona College’s art faculty hoped its new building would convey, recalls department chair Michael O’Malley.

It’s an urban oasis, an indoor landscape, and an effective solution to brand a university campus otherwise lost in the chaos of downtown Toronto. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with local firm Zeidler Partnership Architects, Ryerson University’s new Student Learning Centre is an audacious bid to redefine the concept of an inner-city student commons. “The program is amazingly open,” says project architect Michael Cotton, of Snøhetta’s New York office. “It’s almost like a 10-story lobby. Sometimes we call it a library without books.”