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New renderings of One World Trade Center released last week give a more detailed look at a slimmed-down design for the Lower Manhattan Skyscraper’s 408-foot spire. Not only could the design change keep the tower from reaching a symbolic height, it might also compromise its bid to be the tallest building in the United States. Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and structural consultant Schlaich Bergermann und Partner’s original design for the spire enclosed it in a tapering shield of white fiberglass plates. But last year, in a move that saves $20 million in construction costs, the development team of the

In the province of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, a list of over 270 communities hangs above my desk: Mubondwe, Bulinzi, Karhwa...Each project is labeled school, health center, market, road, or water and includes a status: in process, contract, construction, or complete. My office is one of five that makes up the largest community-level reconstruction effort in Africa–we have completed well over 1,500 projects to date. After joining the team in January of this year, we began a second phase of the program to complete 1,200 projects by June 2014. Since my arrival, we have broken ground on 50

Image © OMA A rendering of OMA's plan for a New York City Coach store shows a system of illuminated transparent blocks of glass and acrylic. Between its Fourth of July fireworks and its Thanksgiving Day parade, Macy’s will unveil another spectacle: A 2,000-square-foot Coach outlet designed by OMA, the firm founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975. The outlet, on the ground floor of Macy’s Herald Square flagship, is scheduled to open in September and will be followed in 2013 by another in Tokyo’s Omotesando district. Image © OMA A rendering of OMA's plan for the Tokyo Coach store in the

Dutch architect Wiel Arets will take the helm as dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture this fall, the university announced yesterday.

The Bachman-Wilson House (1954), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is looking for a buyer to relocate it. A Hillsborough, New Jersey, house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that’s been ravaged by floods over the years is looking for a buyer who can relocate it. The 1954 concrete-and-mahogany structure, known as the Bachman-Wilson house, sits next to the Millstone River, which has jumped its banks seven times in the last two decades, according to owner and current resident Sharon Tarantino.And the last time, in August 2011, during Tropical Storm Irene, the flooding was extreme; six feet of water surged through the

This story originally appeared on ENR.com. Image courtesy Wikipedia The university projected that renovation of the 120-year-old Natural History Building would cost around $70 million and involve replacing substantial portions of the floor.

With his latest Dark Knight film, Christopher Nolan gives us a Gotham for our times. Photo © Ron Phillips/Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics Christian Bale as Batman on a Gotham rooftop in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. For nearly 75 years, Batman and Gotham City have been symbiotically connected, one essential to the formation of the other. And each new iteration of the character has brought with it a new city. Gotham began life as an exaggerated New York, but since the 1980s, Batman has become darker and more psychological, and with him, the city has become more conceptual and

The Museum of Modern Art charts 100 years of design growing up in a new exhibition. Jens S. Jensen, Boy on the Wall, Hammarkullen, Gothenburg, 1973 A beaming child in a puffy jacket dangles from a stark housing block’s concrete wall in a black-and-white 1973 photo by Jens S. Jensen. Blown up to a giant scale at the entrance to the fifth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the image’s contrasting playfulness and severe architecture mark the entrance to the exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000. It’s joined by a 1927 film

This story originally appeared on ENR.com. Image courtesy of Amtrak Rendering of the proposed Union Station interior.

David Wright House Even casual fans of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture are familiar with the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral ramp, which wraps around a six-story atrium. Wright designed the Guggenheim in 1943, though it didn’t open until 1959, shortly after the architect’s death. But the New York museum’s famous spiral inspired a little-known house that Wright designed for his son David in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix. Preservationists say the house could be torn down if a new buyer isn’t found soon. Related links Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House a Tough Sell Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition Opens at the Guggenheim Frank