2015 may have been a record-busting year for global temperatures, weightlifting, and Adele, but now, according to a report released this week, it was also an unmatched year for skyscrapers.

In December, Japanese officials announced their selection of Kengo Kuma as the architect for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Stadium. Kuma spoke to RECORD's correspondent in Tokyo, Naomi Pollock, about the project.

When Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena speaks about designing buildings, he invokes the language of governments and institutes: “investing in brains over bricks”; turning “forces into forms.” But unlike the abstract ideas that may emerge from a policy institute, Aravena, with his Santiago-based firm ELEMENTAL, is keen on designing solutions that not solely aid, but empower society’s neediest.

In its design for the Wilson Secondary School, a public school in Arlington, Virginia, the architecture team of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Leo A Daly responds to diverse programmatic needs—with a twist.

In December, world leaders came to Paris with an ambitious task: cut global carbon emissions to prevent the worst of climate change. They succeeded in reaching a historic agreement.

Mark Foster Gage Architects has released renderings of a 102-floor luxury residential building at 41 West 57th Street in Manhattan.

Outdoor winter activities in London could get a whole lot cooler—if a proposal from NBBJ thaws out. The global firm has released a concept for a series of natural ice rinks, called “Frost Flowers,” intended to float on the River Thames.

The firm unveiled their latest site-specific installation, Spooky Action, on December 9 (“a gift for the holiday season,” they say) in the basement of the boutique Coming Soon, at 37 Orchard Street.