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Newsmaker: Rural Urban Framework

The principals of this Hong Kong-based design lab took home the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize.

October 20, 2015

As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s kickoff last month, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit design lab run by architects Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, was awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize.

Moving Wright

Michael Cockram

October 19, 2015

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A Frank Lloyd Wright classic finds a new home in the Arkansas Ozarks. In saving a historic building, relocation is usually the preservation strategy of last resort. But after repeated flooding at the original site in Millstone, New Jersey, architects and preservationists Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino felt that they had no other choice but to find someone who would purchase their Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home and move it to higher ground. That higher ground turned out to be 1,260 miles away. After a prolonged international search, the Taratinos sold the Bachman-Wilson house in 2013 to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton

São Paulo Begins Implementation of New City Plan

Tom Hennigan

October 19, 2015

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After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly

Stanley Tigerman shows his model for the Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago's oldest rescue center for the homeless, in 2006, a year before it opened.

Interview with Stanley Tigerman

'Mr. Chicago' talks about his hometown and its place in architectural culture.

Cathleen McGuigan

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2015

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Stanley Tigerman has died at age 88. RECORD remembers the "Mr. Chicago," revisiting a 2015 interview with the architect about his hometown and its place in architectural culture.

The Monterey Design Conference Returns

Anna Fixsen

October 16, 2015

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The biennial conference will take place this weekend, October 16 to 18, in Pacific Grove, California. Image courtesy AIACC The conference will be held in the Julia Morgan–designed Merrill Hall. Summer may be over, but architects, students, and design devotees can look forward to a camplike weekend of professional development, networking, and the great outdoors during this year’s Monterey Design Conference, to take place October 16 through 18 in Pacific Grove, California. Architectural Record is a media sponsor. Image courtesy AIACC The conference will feature keynote lectures by well-known architects, including Bernard Tschumi. Since 1979, this biennial conference, organized by

Biennial Dispatch: Theaster Gates Restores Derelict Chicago Bank into a Community Hub

Janelle Zara

October 16, 2015

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In contrast to the excitement of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial’s opening weekend, artist and Chicago native Theaster Gates addressed the press in a decidedly less enthusiastic tone. “As excited as I am about the history of Chicago architecture,” he said, “we also have an amazing history of racism, segregation, [and] a history of redlining and housing covenants that work against the poor, and against black and brown people.” Gates’ contribution to the biennial, the transformation of a derelict 1923 neoclassical building into a community cultural center called the Stony Island Arts Bank, embodies the effects of redlining very succinctly.

Burntwood School Wins 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize

Miriam Sitz

October 16, 2015

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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed the all-girls school in London. Thursday evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects presented London-based firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) with the RIBA Stirling Prize—the U.K.’s most prestigious architecture award—for their work on the Burntwood School. The 2,000-student secondary school located in London’s Wandsworth district provides an enriched science and math curriculum. AHMM added six academic buildings and two large cultural centers to the campus, linking the new facilities to existing modernist structures designed in the 1950s by renowned architect Sir Leslie Martin. The firm created double height spaces at the end of corridors

The World's 50 Most Endangered Cultural Sites

Anna Fixsen

October 15, 2015

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The WMF unveils its 2016 Monuments Watch List. The ancient city of Petra in Jordan. The World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced its 2016 Monuments Watch list, a biennial designation that identifies the world’s most vulnerable heritage sites to generate awareness and prompt preservation. “The 2016 Watch includes many extraordinary places that deserve to be celebrated because they represent high moments of human culture,” said WMF president Bonnie Burnham. “Worldwide concern would strengthen our ability to save them.”This year's roster features 50 structures in 36 countries—from Albania to Zimbabwe—and encompasses a wide variety of types—from an Edwardian bathhouse to a

Exhibition Review: Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Wendy Moonan

October 13, 2015

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Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous living artist, is not a licensed architect, but he sure acts like one: He designs buildings, creates gigantic site-specific installations, organizes art exhibitions, and makes works of art constructed like houses.

SANAA, SHoP, and More Present at RECORD's New York 2015 Innovation Conference

400 architects, designers, and students attended Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference.

Fred A. Bernstein

October 12, 2015

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For Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, principals of the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA, innovation can occur long before a building is designed.

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