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For the second Biennial of the Americas, executive curator Carson Chan has turned the city of Denver into a giant outdoor exhibition space. 

Photo © Edward Tyler Peter Wynne Rees has been the City of London's chief planner since 1985. When Peter Wynne Rees became the chief planner of the City of London in 1985, the famous “square mile” had only one hotel, at Liverpool Street Station, with rooms, he says, that bankers rented by the hour. Now two of the City’s most important Edwardian buildings are becoming luxury hotels. The conversion of the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority in Trinity Square, near the Tower of London, and the Midland Bank Head Office, designed by the great architect Sir Edwin

Ennead Architects, New York (with Langan Engineering, LERA, Atelier 10, Hargreaves, and BioHabitats) View larger image (PDF) Four finalists have been selected to advance to the second phase of a design competition called "For a Resilient Rockaway" (FAR ROC). Organized by the the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, L+M Development Partners, The Bluestone Organization, Triangle Equities, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, and Enterprise Community Partners, the competition brief asked designers to develop ideas for a new mixed-use, mixed-income, sustainable, and storm-resilient community on an 80-acre site on the Rockaway Peninsula, one of the

Video by Danny Forster Design Studio + dbox Rem Koolhaas has won the chance to redesign a large swath of Miami Beach. In a late Wednesday night vote, city commissioners chose a team led by Koolhaas to enlarge the Miami Beach Convention Center and redevelop its 52-acre site, a project that the Miami Herald called “the most important development deal in the history of Miami Beach.” Koolhaas beat out his onetime employee Bjarke Ingels, who had described their competition for the $1 billion-plus project as “oedipal.”The selection appeared to hinge less on architecture than on cost and other factors. Koolhaas’s

On Thursday contractors plan to top out a seven-story, 28-unit apartment building known as the Stack on an infill site in Upper Manhattan.

After hitting bottom in 2009, the multifamily housing market has shown steady improvement. Since 2010, construction starts in the sector have grown by double digits in each of the four regions of the U.S. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].

Allied Works Architecture’s tasting room for the Sokol Blosser Winery, nestled in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, is a low-profile building with a complex flavor profile. Architect Brad Cloepfil set the low-slung, 5,000-square-foot structure into a hillside and clad the interior and exterior walls in earthy-hued bands of tight knot cedar, Douglas fir, and hickory. Large windows frame vistas of the landscape, while large, striated skylights cast shadows that evoke the grape trellises of the surrounding vineyards. The Allied Works addition gives the winery, which opened Oregon’s first tasting room in 1978, a new centerpiece. It serves as a point of orientation

Colombia Transformed: Architecture=Politics features work by six designers including Felipe Mesa, Planb Arquitectos. His Orquidorama pavilion in Medellín’s Botanic Garden is shown here. Last Thursday, July 11, the exhibition Colombia Transformed: Architecture=Politics opened at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture. The show examines 11 recent works by six of the Latin American country’s leading architects: Daniel Bonilla, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Felipe Mesa, Juan Manuel Pelaez, Felipe Uribe, and Orlando Garcia. The featured projects—from libraries and community centers, to sports arenas, to schools—reflect the wave of innovative design that has been driving social transformation across the country (most notably in Bogotá and

Installation view of Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City. Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City, a small and intriguing exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, open until December 1, investigates the overlooked but important influence of photomontage, assemblage, and collage on architecture. The show, curated by Pedro Gadanho, features examples from the early 20th century to the present, ranging from photomontages by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe dating to the 1920s to illustrations from the 1978 book Collage City by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter to the near ubiquitous use of superimposed

Solar panels and micro-turbines enable an art museum to reduce its electrical usage 79 percent. This article first appeared on Building Green. Toledo Museum of Art More than 2,000 solar panels cover 60 percent of the museums roof, making the system one of the largest solar installations in Ohio. After 20 years of green initiatives, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio has seen energy savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars and can now boast that its 101-year-old Beaux Arts building recently went off the grid—in a temperate climate. Toledo Museum of Art Flickering LED lights are more energy