“Iconic” may be the most overused word in architectural writing. Eye-popping new buildings are declared icons when the concrete has barely cured.

Echoing the pro-business message USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi touted at the Greenbuild 2015 opening plenary, the closing session featured four executives whose industry-leading companies have made sustainability a core part of their operations.

That the Greenbuild 2015 celebration party was held at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum — a 2008 building by Polshek Partnership Architects (now Ennead) that sits across the street from the city’s monumental core — shouldn’t have been much of a surprise.

The performing arts center that was part of Daniel Libeskind’s original master plan for Ground Zero has come a step closer to being built, but at one-third of its original size.

The American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Center for Architecture today announced Benjamin Prosky as its new executive director.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is one of Modernism’s triumphs — perhaps the most successful campus ever created as a single International Style work.

Although Greenbuild 2015’s kickoff event was politically minded, the tone was anything but rancorous.

Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their concept for a new art museum, the Pritzker-winning firm’s first project in Canada, to provide a home for the expanding Vancouver Art Gallery.

The organizers of the first Dubai Design Week chose as its opening night speaker an architect who has never built in Dubai, despite having proposed several projects there.

Last week, New York real estate tycoon and art collector Aby Rosen offered a peek into the Seagram Building’s new neighbor: 100 East 53rd Street.