New guidelines and rating systems help architects design buildings that can respond to a broad range of threats.

In Johannesburg, a massive residential shipping container development exemplifies a popular housing alternative among South Africans. Plus: Watch an exclusive clip of a forthcoming documentary about LOT-EK.

Can gentrification improve urban communities without pushing out longtime residents?

The first of 15 architect-designed temporary homeless shelters planned for Los Angeles has opened.

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority, after closing its recently dedicated Salesforce Transit Center, is investigating the cause of cracked built-up plate girders supporting the roof garden.

A residential high-rise in Spain has become the new tallest building to receive Passive House certification.

The third building by Renzo Piano Building Workshop has opened on the new $6.3 billion campus of Columbia University—an initiative 17 years in the making.