The New York architecture community has been in a swivet since the posting of an article titled “MoMA to Abolish Architecture and Design Galleries” in Architects Newspaper on April 12.

Last Wednesday, just as a thousand people left the prayer service for Zaha Hadid at London’s Grand Mosque, it started to rain—appropriately enough at a dramatic diagonal—and not long after, as her family and friends motored in a caravan of buses to a cemetery in Surrey, the clouds parted and a double rainbow appeared.

This year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, is known for his socially-minded design. Since establishing his Santiago firm ELEMENTAL in 2001, Aravena has designed some 2,500 units of housing.

A critic remembers a madcap Brazilian sojourn with Zaha Hadid.

A spiraling staircase is the centerpiece of the new Barney’s Chelsea.

An off-the-grid refuge made from volcanic cinder blends into its remote Western setting.

A diverse set of projects demonstrates that a building’s skin can be transformed into a solar power plant.

An architect works with a sprawling one-of-a-kind lot to create an urban oasis for a family.