The first thing Donald Judd did after purchasing a two-story brick building in downtown Marfa was sandblast the paint from its façade. It was 1990 and Judd’s footprint in west Texas was growing in ...

Facades are the living skin of a building—dynamic, expressive and deeply connected to their surroundings. More than mere envelopes, facades serve as thoughtful interfaces that balance privacy, ...

Gensler, Stantec, Perkins & Will, Interior Architects, HOK, and Page top BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest office building sector architecture and architecture/engineering (AE) firms for 2024, as ...

New York has a housing problem. This may not be news, but the numbers are still stunning. A recent report by the think tank Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) cites a 2021 analysis that found the city ...

In terms of construction culture, Switzerland can appear a paradoxical place. On the one hand, it has some of the strictest codes anywhere with respect to building performance and energy expenditure, ...

64 University Place, KPF’s stacked and stepped arcade of shallow arches. Photo: Michael Young/Courtesy of KPF 64 University Place, KPF’s stacked and stepped arcade of shallow arches. Photo: Michael ...

Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete, geometric forms and imposing presence, has gained a renewed interest in the modern age of social media and more recently through the film The ...

In design theory, extensive use of Glass is often avoided on south-facing facades in the Northern Hemisphere (or north-facing facades in the Southern Hemisphere) due to the risk of heat gain caused by ...

This blog post was authored by Scott Newman, FAIA, Director, Cooper Robertson; and Erin Flynn, RA, LEED AP, Partner, Cooper Robertson. When designing a contemporary museum building, the exterior can ...

The post office was America’s original gossip hub—and it had to be designed for this important role. “In the colonial period, there were no dedicated post office buildings; almost all the post offices ...