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#architecture

Amtrak announced it selected a group called Penn Transformation Partners as the "master developer" to oversee the redesign and reconstruction of the busiest train station in the country. The group includes real estate company Vornado, which owns much of the land around Penn Station, and construction company Halmar, which is currently working to build the MTA's Second Avenue subway extension into East Harlem.

Curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu under the title “Do Architecture - For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality,” the exhibition proposes architecture as a direct and material practice rooted in local construction cultures, reuse, craft, and engagement with lived reality. Critiquing the growing homogenization and abstraction of contemporary architecture, the curators advocate for approaches capable of reconciling environmental, cultural, and technological tensions through the building itself.

Jia Art, a new gallery designed by Foster + Partners, has opened its doors. The building is an integral part of the practice's concept masterplan for the Changfeng mixed-use development in Shanghai's Putuo District. Located on the recently completed southern plot of the development, the gallery sits at the intersection of two primary axes and acts as the social heart of the scheme.

Established to support research into the scientific understanding of daylight and its significance for health, well-being, ecosystems, and architectural design, the award recognizes achievements in two categories: Daylight in Architecture and Daylight Research. This year, Japanese architects Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow were honored for demonstrating how daylight can shape shared spaces and everyday life, while marine biologists Brittany N. Zepernick, Steven W. Wilhelm, and R. Michael McKay of the United States and Canada were recognized for their research on aquatic microorganisms and their implications for planetary health and biodiversity.

Curators Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu unveil Do Architecture: The Possibility of Coexistence in the Face of Real Reality as the theme of the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Running from May 8th to November 21st, 2027, the exhibition positions architecture as a direct response to an increasingly unstable world shaped by ecological crisis, accelerated urbanization, technological abstraction, and the erosion of cultural memory.

“There is no space without event, no architecture without action.” When Bernard Tschumi wrote these words, he was articulating a fundamental principle of the architect's practice. Architecture is about behavior. Every stroke of a pen on a floor plan is a proposition about how occupants will move or what actions become possible.

Perched on the wind-battered Sonoma County coast, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch is an architectural wonder and modern-day utopia built on a single hippie premise: to exist in harmony with nature. Nowhere else in California will you find minimalist timber homes so expertly camouflaged that it's like they sprouted from the very soil itself.

Instead of leveling the terrain or placing a fixed object against the hillside, the architects the building within the land itself. The project takes its name from the aviation term 'yaw,' describing rotation around a vertical axis, and that single movement defines the home's entire layout.

Beijing National Day School is renowned for its student-led, open and free campus culture. Every year, students initiate ten campus improvement proposals, which receive full support from the school authorities.

Route 66, or the Mother Road as John Steinbeck called it in The Grapes of Wrath, turns 100 this year. And while the centennial celebration is the perfect time to celebrate all things related to roadtrips-gas station snacks, carefully curated playlists, rearview mirror decor-it's also a welcome call to hit the highway in search of some seriously dazzling architectural sights. Here, we've rounded up 14 can't-miss design landmarks along Route 66, with a healthy dose of kitsch sprinkled throughout.

“Are you out of your minds?” wrote Jessica Douglas in an email to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) ahead of a meeting about the Trump administration's plan to whitewash the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's granite exterior. According to over 2,000 public responses submitted to the NCPC, hundreds of concerned citizens like Douglas have voiced their disapproval of the Eisenhower Executive Office Beautification Project before the commission reviewed the proposal on May 7, emphasizing that paint and granite are about as compatible as oil and water.

The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, located near Philadelphia, is dedicated to promoting the natural and cultural connections between the region's landscape, historic sites, and artists. The Conservancy protects land and waterways throughout the Brandywine Valley and other priority conservation areas, while the Museum houses a collection of American art, with particular strengths in landscape and still life painting, portraiture, and illustration.

When architects encounter extreme topography, they face a fundamental choice: transform the landscape to accommodate the building, or modify the building to fit the landscape. The first approach is straightforward and requires the builder to cut, fill, terrace, and build on level ground. This choice, however, carries cascading consequences as any amount of earth moved may destabilize slopes, disrupt drainage, and fracture ecosystems.

Built on an existing foundation this house bridges two site conditions. The center of town is a five-minute walk from the front door; stroll out the back door, however, and one is in the Maine woods.

The Whale's design adopts a site-responsive approach, avoiding a distinct volumetric expression in favor of a form that extends the existing terrain, minimizing visual separation between land and water.

The 376-square-meter plot was once simply a green lawn, not a space actively used so much as one appreciated from a distance, offering a restful patch of green for the eye.

The architectural language borrows from and updates agrarian architecture and extends it across all volumes, creating a modern interpretation of traditional farmsteads.

"Elevation allows architecture to adapt without fully taking over: water can pass below, vegetation can remain, and slopes can keep their original condition."

Located by the edge of a reservoir in Minas Gerais, the house was designed to open entirely to the landscape. Discreet lines follow the terrain, dissolving the architecture between water, sky, and vegetation.

My only concern is that my work must have a positive impact on the communities in which it is embedded. This commitment values materiality, collective learning, and the exchange of knowledge.

The Prospect Lefferts Gardens house tour was started by the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association in 1969 with the express purpose of integrating the neighborhood and countering the block busting that was going on at the time.

The house is approached from the road above, making the roof a prominent fifth facade. Clad in aluminium sheets, the roof softly reflects the surroundings.

The Little Aesthetic Hub transforms a secondary school foyer in Taiwan into a shared spatial core where circulation becomes an active part of learning.

Casa Cosmos, a name coined by its owner upon seeing it standing on the land, is located at the foothills of the Punilla Valley, in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba province.

The Mohammed VI Tower, inaugurated on April 23, 2026, in Salé, Morocco, rises 250 metres across 55 floors, making it the tallest building in Morocco and the third tallest in Africa.