In this issue, RECORD reveals 2022 Interiors, a diverse collection of projects, from a factory-turned-furniture-showroom in Montreal to a renovated Mies van der Rohe library in Washington, D.C. Landscape explores MVRDV’s Floriade Horticulture Expo; House of the Month showcases the first and only Palm Springs residence by the late L.A. Modernist Ray Kappe; and Sou Fujimoto’s infuses Budapest's House of Music with nature. Exhibitions include Paul Revere Williams’s work in Nevada and Virgil Abloh’s legacy at the Brooklyn Museum. Continuing Education and News both consider mass timber as a climate solution; News also covers RIBA’s new president, tenant rights and retrofits, and embodied carbon.
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This year’s winning projects demonstrate a fusion of function and hospitality through imaginative and thoughtful uses of space, resources and materials.
As mass-timber construction gains traction in the U.S., long-standing conflicts over the forests of the Pacific Northwest could make or break its promise of building our way out of the climate crisis.
A dossier of 1960s and ’70s pedagogical experiments from around the world, a new book collects accounts of teaching techniques and organizational models that resonate today.
SAGA Space Architects along with Swiss students create an operable and educational space habitat—reportedly the world’s tallest 3-D-printed polymer structure.