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Architectural Record - December 2025

2025 December

With its focus on the spiritual, our December issue showcases places of worship and congregation of all persuasions: Synagogues both expanded and reimagined, a much-pilgrimaged basilica made more accessible, an interfaith hub at a Jesuit university, a pathbreaking, purpose-built women’s mosque, and a big new center for an Islamic community in Texas. Elsewhere in the issue, we visit a student housing complex at Yale Divinity School aspiring to rigorous sustainability standards as well as the highly anticipated new homes of the Studio Museum in Harlem and Paris’s Fondation Cartier. A special section also highlights the winners of our 2025 Record Products awards.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Congregation Beth Shalom Landing

Spiritual Projects 2025

December 2, 2025

With its focus on the spiritual, our December issue showcases places of worship and congregation of all persuasions.

Ismaili Center

Spiritual Projects 2025

The Ismaili Community Gets a New Home in Houston

Patrick Templeton

Patrick Templeton

December 1, 2025

Designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and DLR Group, the first Ismaili Center in the U.S. learns from Islamic architecture to foster cultural exchange.

Congregation Beth Shalom

Spiritual Projects 2025

High Theory Meets High Holy Days in Preston Scott Cohen and BNIM’s Suburban Synagogue Expansion

Overland Park, Kansas

Patrick Templeton

Patrick Templeton

December 4, 2025

The addition to Congregation Beth Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas, features tilting, wrapping forms that reinterpret the act of unrolling and reading the Torah.

St. Joseph’s Oratory

Spiritual Projects 2025

A New Welcome Pavilion by Lemay Aids with Procession to Quebec’s Most Visited Religious Heritage Site

Montreal

Matthew Marani

December 3, 2025

St. Joseph’s Oratory on Montreal's Mount Royal gains a universally accessible entrance facility to receive a swelling number of annual visitors.

Chapel of St. Ignatius

Spiritual Projects 2025

Trahan Architects Designs a Circular Hub for Interfaith Congregation at Loyola University New Orleans

New Orleans

Matt Hickman

December 9, 2025

The mass-timber Chapel of St. Ignatius and Gayle and Tom Benson Jesuit Center serves as an intimate, inclusive space on campus for worship and assembly.

Al-Mujadilah Center & Mosque for Women

Spiritual Projects 2025

In Qatar, Diller Scofidio + Renfro Realizes a Sanctuary Where Women Can Worship and Learn

Doha, Qatar

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

December 5, 2025

Located in Doha’s Education City, the Al-Mujadilah Center & Mosque for Women is anchored by a prayer hall and hosts classes and conferences.

Congregation Emanu-El

Spiritual Projects 2025

Mark Cavagnero Associates Expands a Century-Old Synagogue in San Francisco from Within

San Francisco

December 10, 2025

The update to Temple Emanu-El adds educational and congregational space while restoring several of the landmark's most distinctive architectural features.

Yale Living Village

Continuing Education: Living Building Challenge

Yale Divinity School’s New Housing, by Bruner/Cott and Höweler + Yoon, Reflects the Values of Eco-Theology

New Haven, Connecticut

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

December 1, 2025

Sitting on New Haven’s Science Hill, the 50-bed Living Village residence hall is seeking full certification under the world's most rigorous green-building rating system.

Studio Museum in Harlem

After a Prolonged Closure, the Studio Museum in Harlem Moves Into Its New Home

New York

Belmont Freeman, FAIA

December 2, 2025

The institution’s new purpose-built digs on 125th Street, designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson, has double the exhibition space than its predecessor.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

December 2025 Editor’s Letter

Saving Grace

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

December 2, 2025

The projects presented in this issue are more than just places of faith, they're ones of community.

Heilig-Geist-Kirche

Record NEWS

‘Manifesta’ Takes on Germany’s Deconsecration Crisis

Andrew Ayers

December 3, 2025

The nomadic art biennial has chosen 12 secularized churches as the main exhibition spaces for its 16th edition, which will take place in the Ruhr region next summer.

New York Jewish Museum

RECORD Interviews

New York’s Jewish Museum Opens Transformed Galleries for its Permanent Collection

New York

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

December 12, 2025

RECORD talks to New Affiliates cofounders Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou about their transformation of the museum’s third- and fourth–floor galleries.

Fondation Cartier

In Focus

The Fondation Cartier Moves Into its New Jean Nouvel–Designed Home in Paris

Paris

Andrew Ayers

December 16, 2025

In its move to the Right Bank, the contemporary art museum has leased the basement and first two floors of a sprawling former hotel opposite the Louvre.

House of Four Ecologies

House of the Month

At Sea Ranch, Four Friends Design a Tranquil Retreat that Fades into the Surrounding Landscape

Sea Ranch, California

December 19, 2025

Clad in darkened plywood panels, the House of Four Ecologies snakes through the landscape of the fabled coastal community.

Holliday Architectural Books 2025

Books

RECORD’s Editors Share Their Holiday Book Picks

December 8, 2025

Ideal for gifting (or keeping), our selections include the back-in-print classic ‘Le Corbusier: Le Grand’ and the psychedelic fever dream of ‘Archigram,’ the magazine.

Brooklyn Tower

Books

‘New York 2020’ Concludes Robert A.M. Stern’s Six-Volume Series Documenting the City’s Built Environment

‘New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century,’ by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove

Mark Foster Gage

December 9, 2025

The colossal new book is 'sweeping in its detail, insightful in its selections, and astonishing in its research' writes architect Mark Foster Gage.

Doshi Retreat

Snapshot: The Vitra Campus’s Newest Addition is a Winding Subterranean Path by Balkrishna Doshi

Weil am Rhein, Germany

Grace Kuth

December 17, 2025

The Doshi Retreat is the only project by the Pritzker Prize winner to be built outside India.

Curvilinear Church

Guess the Architect: December 2025

December 4, 2025

Nearly four centuries after its completion, this small but period-defining church remains as strange and inscrutable as ever.

Cersaie Trade Show Products 2025

Trade Show

Cersaie, Italy’s Showcase of Architectural Ceramics and Tile, Returns for 42nd Edition

Bologna, Italy

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

December 4, 2025

RECORD managing editor Leopoldo Villardi reports back with the most eye-catching products from this year’s installment of the show.

Daltile Artefino Bathroom Wall

Record Products 2025

Announcing the Best Architectural Products of 2025

Matthew Marani

December 10, 2025

Applicants to our annual Products of the Year competition included a global selection of interior finishes and lighting, building materials and systems, and much more.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Walls and Ceilings

Record Products 2025

Best Wall & Ceiling Products of 2025

December 11, 2025

Among our top picks are wall panels made from industrial wood scrap and acoustic-ceiling modules that use flexible PET felt.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Windows and Doors

Record Products 2025

Best Window & Door Products of 2025

December 12, 2025

Winning products include an aluminum-frame glass wall system and modular outswing windows.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Outdoor and Landscaping

Record Products 2025

Best Outdoor & Landscape Products of 2025

December 15, 2025

Textured planters, modular seating, and an adjustable, pedestal system for decking are among our top picks in the outdoor and landscape category.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Flooring

Record Products 2025

Best Flooring Products of 2025

December 16, 2025

A parquet-flooring collection featuring expressive floral patterns and porcelain tiles inspired by biophilic tones are among the recognized products in this category.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Kitchen and Bath

Record Products 2025

Best Kitchen & Bath Products of 2025

December 18, 2025

Winners include smart toilets, linear drains, LED-illuminated mirrors, and, as our jurors’ pick, handcrafted tiles.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Furnishings and Decorative Hardware

Record Products 2025

Best Furnishing & Decorative Hardware and Textiles & Upholstery of 2025

December 19, 2025

Winning picks include seating, textiles, and a stone-topped table inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Lighting

Record Products 2025

Best Lighting Products of 2025

December 22, 2025

These seven distinctive illumination options range from ceiling-mounted fixtures to modular track systems.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Building Systems and Materials

Record Products 2025

Best Building Systems & Materials of 2025

December 23, 2025

Among our selections in this hardworking category is our Juror's Pick, a compact electric heat pump.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Structural Systems and Components

Record Products 2025

Best Structural Systems & Components and Glazing Products of 2025

December 24, 2025

Selections in these categories include bird-friendly glass and a net zero mass-timber prefabricated housing and commercial solution.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Building Envelopes

Record Products 2025

Best Building Envelope & Cladding Products of 2025

December 26, 2025

Innovative solutions in the category include cladding made from upcycled rice hulls and insulation manufactured from postconsumer recycled denim.

Best Products of the Year 2025 - Software and Technology

Record Products 2025

Best Software & Technology Products of 2025

December 29, 2025

Winners in this new category hightlighting AEC software include notable releases from Revizto, Autodesk, and Chaos.

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