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Moriyama Teshima Architects completes Canadian Port of Entry at Gordie Howe International Bridge

In Wisconsin, Sala Hars elevates middle-income housing with a gridded enfilade plan clad in brick

Louisville city officials share new renderings of the Belvedere by Heatherwick Studio

CambridgeSeven converts historic Boston office building into all-electric, fossil fuel-free workplace

sauerbruch hutton and Studio Gang win competition to renovate German House at United Nations Plaza

KPF reflects on 50 years of practice

Pelli Clarke & Partners completes Lola Mora Cultural Center in Argentina, the last building designed by César Pelli

Beyer Blinder Belle completes Miramar, a residential complex, on Inwood’s rezoned waterfront

Advancing transparency and sustainability: Avery Dennison releases Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for architectural window film portfolio

Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes warehouse renovation for MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning

Gluten’s deconstructed stage wins 2026 Ragdale Ring Design-Build Competition

In Oregon’s Deschutes County, The Miller Hull Partnership reinvents the library

Obra, Sordo Madaleno’s new exhibition space, offers “a public living room” for London’s Latin American diaspora

Win a design award before even breaking ground

In Toronto, Atelier SUN sculpts glow and reflection for cocktail bar Suite 115

AN’s editor in chief recommends summer reads that travel well

Responding to the climate crisis demands expanding our view of what counts as design, and who we consider a designer

Rivian shares new renderings of EV plant in Georgia designed by SOM

Redefining equity and detail-driven design in workplace washrooms

In Los Angeles, Granada Form cofounders design ADU which also acts as neighborhood coffee shop

White House Ballroom may go to Supreme Court, after Washington, D.C. circuit court judges rule against the project

What building, place, or landscape best embodies where the U.S. is headed and why? Architects, educators, writers, and photographers weigh in.

S/L/A/M Collaborative and RTA Architects announce strategic merger

Studio Cadena adapts a private building in Medellín, Colombia into a cafe, retail space, and dance studio

Green New Deal for Public Housing Act re-introduced in Congress

Wulf Architekten reanimates Museum Historical Oberamteistraße’s medieval site with a new cast-glass skin

With films like Airport BLVD and House of Criticism, the Tribeca Film Festival offered intimate storytelling about the built environment and criticism

Diller Scofidio + Renfro selected to design new cafe and biofiltration system at New York Botanical Garden

These emerging firms leverage their platforms to shape their communities and cities into sensitive spaces

ACE Mentor Chicago and Human Scale complete community garden as part of design-build program for local high schoolers

Downtown Detroit Partnership announces conclusion of I-75 cap feasibility study

An Álvaro Siza retrospective at the CCA showcases his masterful deployment of form to address social issues

Thomas Hines, scholar of modern architecture in California, dies at 89

Yves Béhar talks with AN Interior about his new modular sofa for Moooi

National Park Service states Trump’s arch poses adverse effects to Washington, D.C.

Manifesta 16 installs art in a dozen decommissioned modernist churches with mixed results

Dumican Mosey Architects marries luxury and alpine ruggedness for Martis Camp Residence in North Lake Tahoe, California

Corgan acquires Albany, New York–based WCGS Architects

Pliny Fisk III, “mad scientist of the green building movement” and co-director of CMPBS, dies at 82

CO Adaptive deconstructs an apartment to reuse 70 percent of its materials in its renovation

The July/August issue of The Architect’s Newspaper is out now

London’s Barbican Centre announces competition to design new furniture for its campus

Municipal Art Society of New York awards Richard Olcott, Betsy Smith, and Rick Cotton with the 2026 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medals 

Siderise launches new inspection app

Mayor Mamdani’s plan to litter New York City with dumpsters must be stopped

Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta fine-tune an undulating facade for Queensland Performing Arts Center’s new Glasshouse Theater

schlaich bergermann partner, Snøhetta, and others reinstate a historic bridge in New York’s Watkins Glen State Park informed by the park’s rich history

President Trump and Department of Transportation reveal plans to update Dulles Airport

Sound systems take center stage in spaces designed for listening

Maryam Eskandari in conversation with L.E.FT’s Ziad Jamaleddine on language and translation in architecture

The critical role of window design in behavioral health facilities

A crop of social media creators dedicate their platforms to architecture and the built environment

Frank Gehry–designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open in December

Studio Urban Form + Objects inverts the typical Rajasthan haveli, placing courtyards along the walled edges of the plot

COOKFOX Architects completes the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music

We Design Beirut’s third edition will take place in May 2027

Security focused and spec supportive: Kawneer Forced Entry Solutions

AN Interior wins award for the graphic design of last year’s Top 50 special section

Solar-powered facade systems that turn the building envelope into a power source

Midjourney taps TLEE Spas + Wellness, Basalt Architects, and Rapt Studio for new spa experience

UNESCO adds Aalto projects in Finland, modernist architecture in Uzbekistan, and other historic buildings to its World Heritage List

AECOM designs new bridge and port of entry crossing between the U.S. and Canada

The deadline to AN’s Best of Products Awards has been extended

With Sombra de Santa Fe, DUST designs a geological dwelling with pierced apertures that frame the landscape, horizon, and sky

Tampa Bay Rays share renderings by Gensler of mixed-use district around Populous-designed stadium

SLCE Architects is designing affordable housing atop an NYPD parking lot in East Village

Central Park Conservancy announces restoration of historic Bethesda Fountain and Conservatory Water Basin

New York City–based healthcare design firm, Jeffrey Berman Architect, joins ENSEMBLE Architecture + Interiors

Grzywinski + Pons clads The Kaye in aluminum panels, GFRC, and brick

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Alamo Drafthouse to restore and reopen Hollywood’s shuttered Cinerama Dome

Chicago Torture Justice Memorial designed by John Gay, of JAQ Corp International, breaks ground

Lemay’s addition to Montreal’s historic mountaintop basilica emphasizes accessibility for all

Farm-to-fork fast casual chain Farmer J lands in New York with a sustainable design by Holland Harvey

The Institute for Public Architecture’s 13th Annual Fête: Friends Party

SANAA, Estudio A0, Caá Porá Arquitectura, Jerome Haferd Studio, Taller Capital Landscape, and others to design National Museum of Ecuador

Construction is underway on the Gensler-designed Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal Wellness Center in South Dakota

AIA Architecture Billings Index reports slight recovery in June, but billings remain in “negative territory”

Architectural Workers International responds to Reinier de Graaf’s op-ed on globalization and the architecture profession

Ali McQuaid Mitchell of Futurestudio shares how she designs today’s trending bathhouses

Vanderbilt University announces new College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco; and launches search for dean

MVRDV wins Shift’s new world wonder competition

Proposed changes to Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act draw pushback from preservationists and legal experts

Jeremy Melvin—writer, academic, and World Architecture Festival curator—dies at 62

Leijia Hanrahan’s posthumous book, like songs about airports, launches in New York City

Outdoor ceramics products that add visual interest

When the air outside is dangerous, your building is either protecting you or it isn’t

Arcadis and SmithGroup restore prominent South Boston Revolutionary War site, concurrently with semiquincentennial

Krueck Sexton Partners is renovating midcentury buildings by SOM’s Walter Netsch at University of Illinois at Chicago

Montreal government announces plan to revamp interiors of its Olympic Stadium

RIBA announces 2026 Stirling Prize shortlist

Arthouse Houston, Gensler, Preservation Houston, and Wes Anderson rally to restore Houston’s Garden Oaks Theater

Introducing the jury for the 2026 Best of Design Awards

Citygroup announces the fourth annual Poots Competition

Studio James Carpenter and Gensler artistically wrap San Diego International Airport Terminal One with curved glass panels and serrated aluminum fins

Cascade Architectural’s Fabricoil® systems offer customizable facade screening solutions for projects of any scale

Selldorf Architects and Reed Hilderbrand are designing a new wing at the Clark Art Institute

“Rike Tubes” by Fuksas Studio in Tbilisi, Georgia, are slated for demolition

Rothschild Doyno Collaborative serves LGBTQIA+ seniors in Pittsburgh with Mosaic Apartments

Vrtical’s Casa Gardenias creates a peaceful home and studio for a mother daughter duo

Belinda Stewart Architects to lead preservation project at Frank Lloyd Wright–designed home in Jackson, Mississippi