When the International Living Future Institute announced its Living Product Challenge in 2015, finding manufacturers to participate seemed like a tall order.

RECORD celebrated its 125th anniversary with cocktails and dinner at New York’s landmark Metropolitan Club and toasted 125 top works of architecture built since 1891.

The 6.2 magnitude earthquake that tore through a cluster of medieval towns in central Italy August 24 was swift and relentless.

Architectural Record has announced the winners of its third annual Women in Architecture Awards, recognizing five American architects who are design leaders and have contributed to women’s increasingly visible role in the profession.

Peter Zumthor’s recently completed project in Norway was fourteen years in the making, due in part to its challenging site and to the Pritzker prize-winning architect’s highly deliberate way of working.

"Great architecture can give us hope,” says the co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public Saturday, September 24.

Drawing comparisons to an M.C. Escher composition, a pinecone, or even an insect’s exoskeleton, Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel is a 16-story steel pavilion with 80 viewing platforms, 154 flights of stairs, and almost 2,500 steps.

John Belle, who died this week at 84, helped restore several of New York City’s most important buildings, including Grand Central Terminal and the soaring Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden.