These urban family homes, I soon learned, were made possible by the perimeter block (aka courtyard block)—a building form ...

Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.

Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.

As a designer in the U.S. working to decarbonize my small part of the design and construction industry, 2025 has been a gut punch. Spending time reviewing Environmental Product Declarations or ...

For a profession that likes to congratulate itself about how well-meaning it is, and sees itself as liberal, diverse, open, and progressive, British architecture has a serious problem with diversity ...

A coupl e of weeks ago my friend Kira Gould, the architecture and design super-connecter, sent me an email saying, in essence, This looks new and interesting, maybe you should talk to this guy? The ...

For architects and designers, unbuilt/unrealized projects are confounding, bittersweet, frustrating, elusive, even ghostly—the ultimate what-ifs. Often launched with the grandest ambitions, only to ...

Kate Wagner grew up in rural North Carolina. As a kid, her mom, who never went to college, worked in a grocery store deli and later in childcare. Her dad had a steady government job with a pension, ...

TB: The first phase of the park was under construction when you left. That’s the big oval and the park building. All of that was underwater with [Hurricane] Sandy. But the entire park was designed to ...

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minnepolis Police, the country erupted in protests and demonstrations. The fervor generated by that event reached the world of ...