Architecture

It is difficult to imagine a time when Los Angeles' freeways symbolized access, efficiency, and modernity. Now that the city's love affair with freeways is nearly spent, what future do we envision for them?

August 19, 2015 - Los Angeles Times

Designing large-scale projects that can take years to build in industries that are constantly evolving run the risk of becoming outdated once completed. Arup's Andrew McAlpine discusses how to design for the long-term while remaining innovative.

August 13, 2015 - Doggerel

While visiting Paris, San Diego landscape architect David McCullough pondered his own new world city's identity and concluded, counter-intuitively, his city's (and all cities') identity is defined by its diversity.

August 13, 2015 - UrbDeZine

Katrina Cottages held such great promise 10 years ago, as an alternative to FEMA trailers. But a host of roadblocks stood in the way. After a decade, has the tiny house time arrived?

August 11, 2015 - PlaceShakers

What can be learned from music videos about popular culture's relationship to architecture?

August 10, 2015 - ArchDaily

Twenty-five years have passed since the United States approved a civil rights law with broad and positive affect on the build environment as we've come to know it.

August 10, 2015 - Curbed

According to a new rule, developers building over known faults will need to drill or take samples to find the rift's exact position. While it slows down construction, the measure might prevent catastrophic future quake damage.

August 7, 2015 - KPCC

The wave of skyscraper construction in New York is about to jump the East River.

August 6, 2015 - Crain's New York Business

A data visualization project illustrates the long and varied traditions of American single-family housing.

August 4, 2015 - The Washington Post

Paterson, New Jersey's diverse immigrant population holds the potential to revive the city's declining economy. Writer Jeff Byles documents key resources the city has and how similar postindustrial cities have harnessed community-driven planning.

August 3, 2015 - Doggerel

That's the question some members of Santa Barbara's Architectural Board of Review are asking the coffee and donut chain as they pursue their invasion of the Golden State. Dunkin' Donuts is eyeing a Taco Bell site in the city.

July 28, 2015 - Noozhawk

Institutional projects, and the end of winter, are driving a resurgent architecture industry.

July 28, 2015 - The Architect's Newspaper

Could something as simple of the material selected for a residential tower prove the "antidote to suburban blandness"? A Parisian suburb thinks so.

July 23, 2015 - Frame

Japan has pulled the plug on an ambitious stadium plan, expected to cost $2 billion and designed by one of the world's most famous architects.

July 21, 2015 - The Guardian

How much do the challenges of the built environment require a thoughtful and informed media? What is the role of traditional architecture criticism in the world of aggregators, snark, and armchair urbanists?

July 21, 2015 - Neiman Reports

Insightful designers continue to seek a better future for Los Angeles architecture by way of L.A. urbanism.

July 20, 2015 - Places Journal

Since 2010, planners, designers, and community members have been actively transforming Seattle's alleys into beloved places within the city's urban fabric.

July 17, 2015 - The Seattle Times

A little history on the Inuit of the Circumpolar Region as the kickoff in a blog series by Hazel Borys

July 13, 2015 - PlaceShakers

The foundation is being laid for the world's largest Ferris wheel on State Island. Will it succeed where so many efforts to bring tourists to the Fifth Borough have failed?

July 9, 2015 - The New York Times

A local columnist voices a harsh critique of a development proposed for one of Tampa's most beloved streets. So far the developer seems responsive to the community's concerns.

July 8, 2015 - Creative Loafing Tampa Bay