RECORD celebrated its 125th anniversary with cocktails and dinner at New York’s landmark Metropolitan Club and toasted 125 top works of architecture built since 1891.

To commemorate architectural record’s 125th anniversary, our editors have chosen to honor 125 of the most important works of architecture built since the magazine’s founding in 1891.

To mark record’s 125th anniversary, the two living former editors in chief joined me for a conversation about record’s past and present.

Click through the following slides to read some forward-looking thoughts from Patrik Schumacher, Odile Decq, David Adjaye, Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, Bjarke Ingels, Alejandro Aravena, Tatiana Bilbao, Toshiko Mori, Díebédo Francis Kéré, Gregg Pasquerelli, Shohei Shigematsu, Jeanne Gang, Greg Lynn, Meng Yan, and Sou Fujimoto.

A cluster of buildings cited by critics and historians for the “Top 125 Buildings” since 1891 didn’t make it onto our final list.

The race to develop driverless vehicles is zooming full-speed ahead, engaging all the major car companies—as well as Google X, Apple, and various start-ups. 

Materials have undergone a radical transformation.

As an architect committed to the preservation of buildings from the near as well as the distant past, I have come to the conclusion that the architecture profession as a whole is not often as committed as I am.

Walk into any of the 154 architecture schools certified by the National Architectural Accrediting Board and you are likely to encounter students working long hours in the design studio, learning their craft in small groups through desk crits and pinups.