Flirting with Disaster: Two recent art museums with prime waterfront sites protect their buildings and collections from severe weather and rising water levels.
The move of the Whitney Museum of American Art from its Marcel Breuer'designed quarters on Manhattan's Upper East Side to the city's Meatpacking District presented a host of challenges, flooding among them.
As the principal of China's largest landscape architecture firm and head of Peking University's architecture and landscape architecture department, Kongjian Yu has a spacious corner office in a sleek office building in Beijing's Haidian district.
Through corporate foundations, architecture firms are funding students' research travel. But does supporting design education require a nonprofit structure?
The Passive House concept for ultra-low-energy buildings first developed in the United States during the 1970s energy crisis, only to be adopted and refined into a codified certification system in Germany, after funding in this country dried up. But, like a prodigal son, Passive House has reemerged in the U.S., with use of the certification system steadily gaining ground over the last decade.
Three design teams explore the potential of electrochromic-glazing technology to enhance building-envelope performance and aesthetics. Photo courtesy Studio 804 The LEED Platinum and Passive House'Certified Center for Design Research at the University of Kansas features a trombe wall behind an electrochromic butt-glazed curtain wall developed with SageGlass. To earn one AIA learning unit (LU), including one hour of health, safety, and welfare (HSW) credit, read each of the articles below, and complete the test online. Upon passing, you will receive a certificate of completion and your credit will automatically be reported to the AIA. Find additional information regarding credit-reporting and
Reflections on the Box: A new addition at the Corning Museum of Glass by Thomas Phifer and Partners continues a tradition of invention at its upstate New York campus.