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Introducing the winners, honorable mentions, and editors’ picks of AN’s 2026 Best of Products Awards

Shaping civic spaces that reflect community need

DATALAND, “the world’s first Museum of AI Arts,” paints the industry in a beguiling light

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation terminates Section 106 consultation process for Trump’s triumphal arch project

Corgan relocates Washington D.C. office, expanding space for growth and collaboration

Farshid Moussavi wins 2026 Soane Medal

Marianela D’Aprile is The Architectural League’s new program director

In Philadelphia, a series of green corridor projects will promote walkability and connection

Eavesdrop: Trump as redliner-in-chief, nationalizing the A&E system, and an exhibition by Solange

Coen+Partners rises to great heights with a new generation at the helm

Saul Kim’s set design takes center stage at Park Avenue Armory

Heather Roberge, Los Angeles architect and UCLA educator, dies at 55

Conran and Partners, the London and Hong Kong studio, joins DLR Group

CannonDesign adorns concrete waves at the Mount Sinai Braman Comprehensive Cancer Center

AN checks in with Bjarke Ingels to learn about BIG’s plans for Sea Ranch Lodge

Reconstruction of historic golf clubhouse requires Intumescent Fireblocking

Vectorworks Architect 2027

hcma architecture + design transforms a downtown office building into an incubator for the University of Calgary’s architecture students

National Trust announces “Historic Preservation Defense Fund” campaign at 2026 Preservation Summit

Snøhetta’s Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library merges with the North Dakota landscape

AIA’s Architecture Billings Index in August shows overall trend in business conditions remains downward

Architect, educator, and longtime Archinect contributor Orhan Ayyüce dies at 75

WORKac completes the People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante, the first flexible theater north of Harlem

A report from the inaugural Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi, Kenya

Expressive decorative glass for every type of occasion

VJAA designs for a new generation of chemistry students with Fraser Hall at the University of Minnesota

A new peer-reviewed scholarly architecture journal will publish the canceled Palestine issue of the Journal of Architectural Education

Detroit Month of Design showcases the city’s creative cunning, despite a tricky political climate

Sniper nests, building closures, and press bans: Here’s the latest in Trump’s Washington, D.C.

The deadline for Best of Design Awards 2026 has been extended two more weeks

Events and talks to tune into during Climate Week NYC 2026

Safdie Architects to restore Brooklyn’s Pacific Library branch

Joseph Grima appointed program director of Uzbekistan’s Aral School

Google shares new Thompson Center renderings for Chicago flagship

At the University of Toronto’s Indigenous House, Formline Architecture + Urbanism and LGA Architectural Partners fold Indigenous pedagogies into the design

A resiliency plan for a flood prone neighborhood in Hoboken, New Jersey

The East Side Coastal Resiliency project bolsters New York City’s waterfront with updated flood infrastructure and new opportunities for recreation

Mayor Mamdani announces plan to install 17 public restrooms designed by Throne Labs throughout New York city

Payette showcases aluminum paneling and iron spot brick for Penn State University

Oregon church by Pietro Belluschi faces controversial interior renovation by Harrison Design, Trump’s triumphal arch architects

Center for Contemporary Arts Tashkent by Studio KO opens in Uzbekistan

Construction begins on the Met’s Tang Wing designed by Frida Escobedo Studio

Demolishing City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, would be a major mistake

At UC Berkeley, SOM’s Grimes Engineering Center offers a new gathering space on Memorial Glade

One building envelope. One trusted team.

Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect by Brian D. Goldstein

Airbnb announces Housing Accelerator

An excerpt from Out In Architecture, Volume II, with reflections by LGBTQIA+ individuals within the field of architecture

West African modernist architecture goes under the microscope at MoMA

DLR Group–designed mass timber student housing project nears completion in Ohio

Excerpt from Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect by Brian D. Goldstein

Architectural hardware that improves the performance of openings

Corgan acquires Duda|Paine Architects, a North Carolina firm

AN checks in with Timothy Schuler to learn about his new role as director of Kansas State’s Institute for Community Design & Research

O·N Architects completes new wellness space and indoor rock climbing gym in DUMBO

RAMSA’s renovation plans for Chicago Museum of Science and Industry move forward

MTA releases new renderings of Interborough Express stops designed by Jacobs and HDR

IX XI by Sean Wilsey and a video series from Silverstein Properties document 9/11 and its aftereffects through the lives of New Yorkers

Revisiting AN’s coverage of rebuilding the World Trade Center on the 25th anniversary of 9/11

An architect recounts her experience on 9/11 and in its aftermath

Facades+ comes to Denver on October 1

HKS, Thornton Tomasetti, and Steel Encounters build Astra Tower, the tallest building in Utah

LOT-EK designs a shipping container schoolhouse in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans

Selldorf Architects is designing a pavilion exclusively for exhibiting art by Gerhard Richter in Doha

Jerry Haber, cofounder of W&W Glass, dies at 85

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD and Studio-MLA, offers a heady brew of fantasy and reality

U.S. Tennis Association announces Future Courts student design competition winners

Architekturmuseum TUM is being evicted from Pinakothek der Moderne by Bavaria’s arts ministry, sparking pushback

These fall 2026 building openings and renovation completions caught the eyes of AN’s editors

National Academy of Design names Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Gary Hilderbrand, and others as 2026 National Academicians

Daniel Libeskind named Architecture Laureate in 2026 Praemium Imperiale awards

Architects should be inspired by photography books. Here are some recommended recent arrivals.

The September/October issue of The Architect’s Newspaper is out now

Glazing that offers the latest high-performance innovations

Facades+ kicks off the fall season in Chicago on September 17

Construction begins on $36 million expansion of Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway Library designed by Allied Works

Construction on President Trump’s triumphal arch to begin in the next two weeks

NCPC and ACLU clash over AECOM-designed Lafayette Park fence proposal for grounds north of the White House

Perkins&Will illuminates 580 Dubuque with micro-perforated, copper-colored aluminum

Facades+ will come to six cities this fall

Lake Sophia by Field Operations is the first new swimming facility at a New York State Park in nearly two decades

SmithGroup shares design updates for Museum of Science & History in Jacksonville, Florida

Phase two of Weiss/Manfredi’s masterplan for the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi was cancelled

Connecting campus and community: Highlighting design at the University of Pittsburgh

Design intent is often lost during project documentation. We believe this should change.

Smithsonian designates Arts & Industries Building as new home for National Museum of the American Latino

SOM Foundation appoints Peter MacKeith as new executive director

Entertainment venue enhances energy savings with thermally broken roof hatches

WXY unveils comprehensive plan for Albany’s Empire State Plaza

Cologne’s Museum of Applied Art and Technical University of Berlin revisit O.M. Ungers

PAU and INC to renovate Christie’s New York auction house at Rockefeller Center

Elia Zenghelis, OMA cofounder, dies at 89

Functionality and style unite these interior doors and sliders

The Supreme Court ruled that construction of Trump’s White House ballroom can proceed

Out There showcases American architects working at the so-called periphery

A Mary Ellen Carroll retrospective in Houston is a glimpse into the “financial, legal, political apparatuses” behind architecture

Tennessee Tech University launches Bachelor of Architecture degree

Junior Architects charts an alternative design pedagogy in a new series of essays on the future of architecture education

Jayden Ali unpacks the benefits of non-architecture hobbies and projects he wants to see in AN’s Best of Design Awards

Architecture schools roll out fall 2026 lecture series