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Architectural Record - January 2026

2026 January

Beginning the new year on a restorative note, our health-and-wellness–focused January issue profiles singular hubs for well-being on two American university campuses and an off-grid medical compound in rural Uganda. We also report back from a pair of major waterfront projects—Abu Dhabi’s soaring new national museum and a redeveloped urban fish market in Sydney. Our House of the Month is an appropriately wintery retreat in British Columbia. To mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating Los Angeles fires, a special CEU section looks at the progress made in rebuilding—and the work ahead. Finally, we say goodbye to two architectural giants, Frank Gehry and Robert A.M. Stern.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Frist Health Center

Health & Wellness

Biophilic Design and Adaptive Reuse Converge at Princeton’s Frist Health Center

Princeton, New Jersey

Matt Hickman

January 12, 2026

The inviting new student wellness center, designed by WRNS Studio, melds a 1920s academic hall with new wings housing an array of health services.

The Contemplative Commons

Health & Wellness

A Building and Site for Contemplative Practice, by Aidlin Darling Design, Takes Shape at the University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

January 13, 2026

Set among a tranquil landscape, the hybrid steel and mass-timber Contemplative Commons aims to foster organic exploration of new ways of experiencing the world.

Kyabirwa Surgical Center

Health & Wellness

A Seven-Building Campus in Rural Uganda Becomes a Model for Constructing Off-Grid Medical Facilities

Kyabirwa, Uganda

Patrick Templeton

Patrick Templeton

January 14, 2026

Designed by New York–based GKG, the construction of the Kyabirwa Surgical Center relied on the skills of local craftspeople, vernacular building techniques, and regionally available materials.

Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles

Continuing Education: L.A. Fires, One Year Later

January 6, 2026

RECORD explores the challenges to rebuilding—and the progress made—in the neighborhoods devastated by last January’s fires.

CSA Number 2 House

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Two Initiatives Resurrect the Fabled Case Study Program

January 7, 2026

Case Study: Adapt and Case Study 2.0 offer a fire resilience–oriented riff on the famed midcentury program instigated to address the post-World War II housing shortage.

Paravant Architects Passive House

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Is the Passive House Standard the Answer?

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

January 8, 2026

Many Passive House proponents see the energy performance–based program and its strategies as having great potential for the rebuilding of L.A.’s devastated neighborhoods.

Palisades Charter High School

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Three Pacific Palisades Schools Rebuild for the Future

Matt Hickman

January 9, 2026

A trio of Los Angeles Unified School District–led projects designed by DLR Group, NAC, and Practice take the opportunity to build back better following last year’s devastating wildfires.

Jonah Susskind

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Addressing the Wildfire Knowledge Gap: A Q&A with SWA’s Jonah Susskind

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

January 8, 2026

RECORD deputy editor Joann Gonchar talks with the landscape architecture firm’s director of climate strategy, who served as one of the principal investigators for its ‘Playbook for the Pyrocene.’

Palisades Fire Construction

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Deregulation: Faster, Cheaper, Better?

Russell Fortmeyer

Russell Fortmeyer

January 9, 2026

Although made in the spirit of expediting recovery, exemptions from environmental mandates seem like a step back from California's otherwise progressive climate-action policies.

Altadena is not for sale sign

L.A. Fires, One Year Later

Erasure in the Historically Black Community of Altadena

January 7, 2026

‘From these embers, we can help communities remain or, through silence and complicity, facilitate their erasure,’ writes Victor Jones.

Zayed National Museum

Foster + Partners’ Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi Meets the Sky with a Series of Splayed Solar Chimneys

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Andrew Ayers

January 5, 2026

The latest high-profile cultural institution on Saadiyat Island, where Frank Gehry's Guggenheim is under construction, commemorates the United Arab Emirates’ founder, an avid falconer.

Sydney Fish Market

Set to Open this Month, 3XN’s Sydney Fish Market Aims to Revitalize an Industrial Bay and Become a Culinary Hub

Sydney

January 6, 2026

The market's undulant roof—the largest such structure in the southern hemisphere—was constructed using timber barged from Europe.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

January 2026 Editor’s Letter

For the Ages

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

January 2, 2026

A new year also marks the end of an era when considering the recent deaths of two titans of architecture, Frank Gehry and Robert A.M. Stern.

Portland Art Museum

In Focus

An Intervention at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum Spans Two Landmarks and Mends Old Wounds

Portland, Oregon

January 2, 2026

The Rothko Pavilion—designed by Vinci Hamp Architects with Hennebery Eddy Architects—positions the museum as a crossroads between art and the urban context.

Breathing Space

Books

‘Breathing Space’ Explores Respiratory Modernism as a Force That Shapes Buildings and How We Live With Them

Review: ‘Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings’ by Tim Altenhof

Russell Fortmeyer

Russell Fortmeyer

January 13, 2026

Author Tim Altenhof has 'given us an excellent history lesson that carves out a small place for breathing,' writes Russell Fortmeyer.

Gensler Shanghai Studio

RECORD Forum

Chinese and American Architects’ Shifting Relationship

January 23, 2026

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

Sick Architecture

Books

‘Sick Architecture’ Probes the Relationship Between the Built Environment and Health and Wellness

‘Sick Architecture’ edited by Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga

January 12, 2026

Read an excerpt from editor Beatriz Colomina's introduction to the book, which features 36 essays on topics ranging from mosquito mitigation to toxic masculinity.

Frame

Building Technology

A Belgian Tower Bares All With an Unconventional Exoskeleton

Brussels

Andrew Ayers

January 22, 2026

The design team of Baukunst and Bruther describe Frame, which rises 100 feet above a new media park in Brussels, as being more akin to a piece of infrastructure than a classic building.

Rest

Close Up

Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s Restaurant Pavilion Stands Out in a Sprawling Botanical Garden in South Korea

Yangpyeong, South Korea

James Gauer

January 20, 2026

The Chilean practice's "Rest" at Les Jardins de Médongaule features a forest of 16 columns rising from a roof terrace.

Whistler Ski House

House of the Month

High in Canada’s Coast Mountains, a Scott & Scott–Designed Retreat Offers Refuge to a Family of Skiers

Whistler, British Columbia

Katharine Logan

January 19, 2026

The wood-framed structure, perched atop a rocky bluff near Whistler Mountain, draws lessons from alpine architecture.

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry Dies at 96

December 5, 2025

Born in Toronto and based in Los Angeles, Gehry was arguably the most famous architect since Frank Lloyd Wright.

Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern, Former Yale Dean and Exponent of Traditional Architecture, Dies at 86

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

November 28, 2025

A tireless champion of New York City, the founder of Robert A.M. Stern Architects died on November 27 following a respiratory illness.

Pittsburgh International Airport Terminal

Snapshot: Pittsburgh’s New Airport Terminal Celebrates Western Pennsylvania’s Identity

Pittsburgh

Grace Kuth

January 5, 2026

Designed by Gensler and HDR in association with Luis Vidal + Architects, the facility's roof consists of staggered peaks that frame clerestory windows meant to evoke the Allegheny Mountains.

New Health and Wellness Products for Winter 2026

Products: Health & Wellness

New Health & Wellness Products for Winter 2026

January 14, 2026

Offerings include ultra-efficient hand-dryers, x-ray-shielding glass, and easy-to-clean floor tiles.

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