Infrastructure & Industrial Projects

2025 Architectural Record Awards Winner: Portland International Airport Main Terminal

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Learn more about the awardee in the Transportation & Infrastructure category by ZGF Architects.

Ney & Partners Suspends a Scenic Footbridge from a 19th-Century Rail Viaduct in Southern France

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:59:46 -0400

The 600-foot-long lightweight steel structure, open to pedestrians and cyclists, links the city of Albi’s historic center with new development across the River Tarn.

HDR’s New Home for the Orange County Sanitation District is as Practical as the Agency Itself

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:08:11 -0400

Linked to a neighboring water treatment facility via footbridge, the hybrid mass-timber building has sustainability deeply embedded in its design.

A Gensler-Designed Training Facility Prepares the Next Generation of Chicago’s Ironworkers

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The structure is clad in black-tinted glass and features a single open space to run trials of curtain wall installs.

Guess the Architect: June 2025

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:29:43 -0400

This factory, built by a European car manufacturer in the early 20th century, was concieved as an elongated upward spiral from which completed vehicles would emerge on the building’s rooftop.

CookFox Transforms a 19th Century Manhattan Storehouse into a Modern Workplace

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:29:36 -0400

A historic brick and timber warehouse, once home to an infamous nightclub, gets a new lease on life.

Barkow Leibinger’s Mass-Timber Training Center Buzzes with Activity

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:18:10 -0400

A honeycomb-shaped education facility showcases modern manufacturing machinery, and the people operating it.

Translucent Panels Sinuously Wrap FRPO’s Biomass Plant in Spain

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:18 -0500

Even industrial buildings should have architectural bravura, according to the Spanish startup that hired the 2012 Design Vanguard firm.

Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Shenzhen Energy Ring Redefines Industrial Architecture in China

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:02:00 -0500

One of the world’s largest waste-to-energy plants is encircled by a distinctive permeable skin.

Prefab Takes Flight at U.S. Airports

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:09:17 -0500

Expansion projects at the L.A and Atlanta airports exemplify how modular and prefabricated construction can reduce costs, shorten timelines, and minimize disruptions.

A Sinuous Cruise Ship Terminal by RUR Architecture Redefines Taiwan's Waterfront

Mon, 13 May 2024 02:17:14 -0400

Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto’s latest learns from biology and Formula One engines.

Foster + Partners and Sasaki to Transform Disused Athens Airport into New Urban District

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:45:36 -0500

The largest urban regeneration project in Europe, the 1,500-acre site will include a residential neighborhood, coastal resort, and 600-acre park.

Snapshot: Atelier 9.81 Fashions a Jenga-Like Traffic Control Tower for France's Top Ferry Port

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Fragmenting the concrete structure into a pile of cantilevered boxes, the architects textured its surface with evocations of dials, nautical charts, and sedimentary rocks.

Transportation & Infrastructure 2024

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:16:00 -0500

In January, RECORD examines reimagined infrastructure and innovative transportation buildings— from a diminutive subway headhouse to a vast, greenery-filled airport terminal.

In Dallas, a Forthcoming Freeway Lid Park Reunites an Interstate-Bisected Community

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:06:00 -0500

Designed by HKS and SWA, the I-35E–spanning Southern Gateway Park aims to be both a citywide destination and economic catalyst for the Oak Cliff neighborhood.

Field Operations Tackles A 'Wild and Strange" Park on Staten Island

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:04:00 -0500

One of five ongoing landscape interventions in the Freshkills Park masterplan, North Park transforms a sprawling former municipal landfill into open public space.

Heavy Mechanical Trades Training Facility by the Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500

A new facility at the College of New Caledonia provides a hardy but elegant setting for training in sophisticated equipment.

Larkin Street Substation Addition Illuminates an Industrial Corner in San Francisco

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:00 -0500

A new 12,000-square-foot building by TEF Design and Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design restores the glimmer of a 60s-era utility substation in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge Twists Across Busy Thoroughfare

Lentzl@bnpmedia.com (Linda C. Lentz) — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:30:00 -0500

Twisting its way between Victorian-era and 1970s buildings, a new pedestrian bridge by WilkinsonEyre and Speirs + Major spans the years and a busy Toronto street with a graceful thrust.

First Phase of 'Illuminated River' Opens on the Thames River in London

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:30:00 -0500

A new light-based artwork by American artist Leo Villareal with London architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has recently been installed on four Thames River bridges.

Design Orchard by WOHA

Mon, 06 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400

The roof of a new retail and co-working building in Singapore's main shopping district provides a lush public respite.

Moshe Safdie’s Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore Opens to the Public

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

The $1.26 billion development, which opens to the public today, combines retail, restaurants, entertainment venues, and lush gardens under a vast toroidal glass roof.

Water-Treatment Facility by Oppenheim Architecture

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

A water-treatment facility in Switzerland conforms to the equipment it houses—and its surrounding landscape.

North Transfer Station by Mahlum

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500

Design helps a Seattle waste facility get along with the neighbors.

Trumpf Smart Factory by Barkow Leibinger

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:00:00 -0400

In Chicago, a handsome, flexible building of Corten and glass pays homage to its landscape and its owner-occupant.

Richard Meier's First Bridge

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:00:00 -0400

The Pritzker Prize winner completes a graceful bridge in Italy, reconnecting a small city to its history.

World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Santiago Calatrava

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:00:00 -0400

After more than a decade of construction, the Oculus at the World Trade Center in New York City finally opens.

Croton Water Filtration Plant

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:00:00 -0500

One of New York’s largest construction projects unites public space and essential urban infrastructure.

Spring Street Salt Shed by Dattner Architects and WXY

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:00:00 -0500

In Manhattan, a sleek rectilinear garage and sculptural salt shed brighten the city.

The Ohio State East Regional Chilled Water Plant

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:00:00 -0500

The old football field may be long gone, but Mrs. Clark Thompson’s temperance-era rite was oddly prophetic. More than a century later, on the footprint of its grandstands, Ohio Field has been reincarnated as a new chilled-water facility.