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Democratic Socialists of America candidates swept the New York City primaries. What does it mean for housing?

New York Historical’s Tang Wing for American Democracy opens with institution’s first expansion in a century

JGMA encases Humboldt Park Health Wellness Center in aluminum composite panels

Multistudio repurposes Kansas City’s Rock Island Bridge as an entertainment district

A riverfront park in Toledo, Ohio, by WXY and EDGE reaches major milestone

A study of 3,882 architecture firms examines whether firms benefit from conforming with structures of industry-leading firms

A Saint Kitts oasis by New York studio Architecture in Formation takes design cues from its site

MIT Museum acquires archive of I. M. Pei

Most architecture and engineering firms can’t say whether they’re actually profitable—new benchmark finds

May Architecture Billings Index drops score to lowest of the year

OMA and RDLR Architects are retrofitting a historic coffee plant for a Houston charter school

World Monuments Fund supports restoration of Vatican City’s Loggia of Raphael

NeoCon and Fulton Market offer a bevy of new furniture and workplace releases

Iittala and Hydro scale Alvar Aalto vase into a walk-in pavilion at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign

Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu finds innovative housing solutions in New York’s strict zoning landscape

Dash Marshall is designing a filmmaker hub for RATHAUS in Detroit’s Little Village

A new Skyspace at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum by James Turrell and Schmidt Hammer Lassen opens to the public

Hermine Demaël and Stephen Zimmerer design climate device at New York Botanical Garden glass conservatory

Bobrick opens global showroom at the New York Design Center

National Trust for Historic Preservation elects Brent Leggs as its CEO and president

Texas-based photographer Leonid Furmansky turns his gaze toward a nearby state

The U.S. State Department is accepting applications to program the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2027

Office of Tangible Space opens up East Hampton residence with sequences of light

Dallas City Council votes to fund a $3 million search for a new City Hall, but I. M. Pei’s building isn’t leaving yet

Through the Barack Obama Presidential Center, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects delivers hope in a time of fracture

AN’s 2026 Best of Design Awards is open for submissions

Leers Weinzapfel Associates designs Cornell University’s new home for the College of Computing and Information Science

Is your project setting a new standard for rainscreen design?

Few forms of livestock have received as much architectural attention as pigeons

An exhibition revisits the vision of the architectural pioneers behind big box store Best Products

A83 stages a retrospective of Lebbeus Woods

Montreal’s Afro-Canadian Cultural Centre by Studio of Contemporary Architecture and FABG Architectes breaks ground

A new exhibition revisits the legacy of Wenche Selmer and Scandinavian cabins

MIT Press launches publication award with Graham Foundation and Storefront for Art and Architecture

HLW announces official opening of Denver office

Large architecture firms can do more than just promote themselves

The Architectural League of New York renames Prize for Young Architects + Designers for Anne Rieselbach

Catherine Johnson of Design, Bitches on her favorite materials right now and advice for submitting to AN’s Best of Products Awards

Of Possible floats a New York retreat, The Findling, atop four glacial erratic boulders

Graham Foundation announces 2026 Grants to Individuals

Introducing AN’s 2026 Best of Practice Awards Winners

Zaha Hadid Architects rebrands as ZHA, and terminates contract with Zaha Hadid Foundation

Marisfrolg’s regenerative Shenzhen campus draws inspiration from ecological phenomena

Lorcan O’Herlihy, Irish architect based in Los Angeles, dies at 66

The trends driving lighting design right now

Massachusetts is soliciting proposals from developers to transform Boston’s Lindemann and Hurley buildings into housing

The not-so-secret weapon to a successful project? Lighting consultants.

A cross designed by Mexican architect Mauricio Cortés crowns Sagrada Família

JSa completes Casa Marte, an off-grid compound in Mexico’s forested Valle de Bravo

Plans for a Jared Kushner–backed luxury resort spark protests in Albania, concurrently with the Bread & Heart architecture festival

Architecture cooperative Studio Pivot champions community housing

Waechter Architecture proves all-wood construction isn’t just a niche idea

Art of the Game commissions 23 soccer ball sculptures across New York City and New Jersey 

Kawneer Collaborative delivers unitized curtain wall for Robert Day Sciences Center

BIG and Polk Stanley Wilcox are designing a nonprofit “STEM-focused” university campus in Bentonville, Arkansas

Ross Barney Architects’ revitalization of a Chicago commercial corridor makes space for future generations

University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design names James C. Stevens as its new dean

With Habitat, SHoP Architects and Steinberg Hart bet on a high-density, public transit-oriented Los Angeles

Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation shares design by Kengo Kuma & Associates

A new monograph brings refreshed context to modernist architect and painter Wassef Boutros-Ghali’s oeuvre

GSA shares renderings of a new Tennessee courthouse, designed by HOK in response to the White House’s classical architecture EO

SWA’s Houston studio completes Hill at Sims, a new park

Williamson Williamson offers a thoughtful update to an Edwardian home for a pair of empty nesters

Sen̓áḵw, Vancouver’s Indigenous-led urban mega build, emerges from the site’s geography and history

Rarify’s David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti are turning their furniture marketplace into an ecosystem for emerging designers

CIVILIAN puts a hospitality spin to Bard College’s North Campus Residence

Chicago’s 1901 Project breaks ground around the United Center, starting with the music hall and hotel

Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to renovate and expand Albania’s Palace of Congresses

At the Noguchi Museum, an exhibition explores Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized vision for New York City

8 Minutes 20 Seconds looks to solar energy and new financial models as keys to affordable housing

Sculptural sinks that venture with shape and texture

PAU’s Vishaan Chakrabarti, Amtrak’s Andy Byford, and Peter Cipriano of Halmar share vision for Penn Station’s transformation

How are North American cities preparing for this summer’s soccer fest?

Thirteen projects by the Aaltos under consideration for inclusion on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

Lunawood 2026 Collection by Delta Millworks

Thomas Safran updates Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House in Los Angeles

Palma and Taller TO win competition to design new building for MAC Panamá

In Eva Jospin’s cardboard universes, architecture and nature converge

Henning Larsen shares design for mixed-use neighborhood atop active Toronto railyard

In Kane Parson’s psychological horror Backrooms, the built environment does the haunting

Designing for Resilience: Why ASTM F3561 matters in K–12 school security

Prioritizing sustainability in modern architecture, design, and construction

A recladding from OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen brings innovation outside

How Trump’s arch gets classical wrong

How are architecture firms using succession planning to build sustainable futures for their practice?

Safdie Architects completes Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art expansion

Permeable pavers: A powerful product for capturing microplastics

Why tile is becoming the default “foundational skin” in contemporary architecture

Studio J.Jih adapts a dairy creamery into the headquarters for condom manufacturer Global Protection Corporation with a series of openings and scrims

LANZA Atelier reimagines the crinkle crankle wall for the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion

Peterson Rich Office completes the Costume Institute’s galleries at the Met

What’s happening with The Berlage? A disclaimer on TU Delft’s website application portal stirs confusion over its future

C. G. Beck’s The Labor of Architecture is a clarion call to office unionization, and a defense of architecture’s social potential

Infinity Drain® showcases latest architectural drainage innovations at AIA Conference on Architecture & Design® 2026

Henry Julier on the importance of designing for industry and submitting to AN’s Best of Products Awards

Deadline Extended: Final hours to enter the 2026 Ceramics of Italy International Tile Competition

At SAINT, BOND offers a private sauna experience for busy New Yorkers

A Brazilian court orders the government to save Fordlândia, Henry Ford’s failed Amazon company town

NEOM issues temporary work stoppage on The Line until at least 2030

The fashionable real estate company RAY is taking a chance on Downtown Phoenix early in its revival