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Bahrain’s Pearling Path offers a two-decade retrospective on history, identity, and architectural narrative

What makes the Pearling Path most exciting is its use of existing city fabric and strategic piecemeal development. (Iwan Baan) An aerial view of the historic area of Muharraq, with contemporary ...
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Julian Rose and András Szántó share notes about interviewing art-focused architects and the future of the museum

Julian Rose’s Building Culture, published last year by Princeton Architectural Press, contains 16 in-depth interviews with leading architects who have designed museums around the world. In 2022, ...
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University of California abandons plans to build “windowless dorm” Munger Hall

For many, Munger Hall embodied the bottom-line driven ethos of corporate philanthropism that often prioritizes quantity over quality; and the sad state of academia where, thanks to funding shortfalls, ...
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LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries, by Peter Zumthor and SOM, offers a seductive art-viewing experience

At his best, Zumthor is a wizard of phenomenology, as evidenced in the kindness of the spring light that relaxed the unrelenting concrete—inside and out: plazas, walls, floor slab, roof slab, all ...
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils regional plan to build a “massive free trade zone” with rail service to NEOM

AI-generated renderings show skyscrapers, solar fields, water desalination plants, a new high speed rail corridor, and oil rigs off of Gaza’s shoreline. (Courtesy Israel PMO) UN officials issued a ...
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Here are the winners of the 2017 AN Best of Design Awards

See the winners and honorable mentions across 42 categories in The Architect's Newspaper's Best of Design Awards 2017.
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In L.A., new tiny home villages offer a temporary solution in the city’s struggle with homelessness

At Alexandria Park, prefabricated structures made by Pallet are used, so Lehrer Architects’ focused on organization and shared spaces. (Courtesy Lehrer Architects) Alexandria Park is one of ten such ...
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Moss, Mayne, Holl, and more remember the late Michael Sorkin

In sight of the invisible. Loyal to that cause. Michael the critic. Michael the urbanist. Michael the politico polemicist. Michael the architect. Michael the sardonic humorist. Homeless and everywhere ...
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Another Base

The controversy over SCI-Arc’s “Basecamp: How to be in an Office” panel in late March remains stunning on so many levels, not the least being the students who have seen through SCI-Arc’s desire for ...
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Renovation of Federal Reserve Board headquarters portends a battle over civic architecture

The $42-million FRB refresh had been on the CFA docket on November 21, 2019, with commissioners largely approving of the three preliminary renovation and expansion proposals set before them and ...
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OMA expands the Wilshire Boulevard Temple with its first major Los Angeles building

For the Audrey Irmas Pavilion at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Rabbi Steve Leder, senior rabbi of the Los Angeles synagogue, commissioned Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu to design a mezuzah to grace ...