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Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects A rendering of Hadid Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar. A lawsuit brought by Zaha Hadid against The New York Review of Books and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, has prompted Filler to correct the record. In a book review published in June, Filler accused Hadid of being indifferent to the deaths of 1,000 workers during construction of her Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, a venue for the 2020 FIFA World Cup, based on comments the architect had made to The Guardian newspaper in February 2014. In a letter posted on the NYRB website on Monday

Through September 28, an exhibition at the New Museum in New York highlights contemporary art from 45 Arab artists from over 15 countries. A group of artists called GCC created a wallpaper and sound installation for the lobby of the New Museum, meant to look like a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi. For what might be the most relevant exhibition of the summer—months during which our eyes have been transfixed on the Middle East—Here and Elsewhere at New York’s New Museum does not focus on ancient artifacts or political propaganda. Instead, it displays videos, paintings, photographs, and installations—personal reportage and

LEED, IgCC, 189.1 to be parts of a single system. This story originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com. In many parts of the U.S., LEED has been law for years, particularly for public buildings—but that’s starting to change, and LEED’s creator, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is one of the first to celebrate. A new partnership among five major U.S. standard developers in the U.S. will harmonize ASHRAE 189.1, the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), and the LEED rating systems with the aim of simplifying implementation of local green building regulations and incentive programs. Although the organizations and their development processes

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture can be as unconventional as its founder.

Architects have something new to worry about.

Abraham Thomas became the director of the Soane Museum last December.

The Weidlinger House in 1953. Restoration of renowned structural engineer Paul Weidlinger’s Wellfleet, Massachusetts, vacation residence has been completed. According to the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT), which led the preservation project, the house is unique among its counterparts. “Compared to other Modernist houses on Cape Cod, which express local building vernacular and relate to nature closely, this building is uncompromisingly rationalistic,” says CCMHT founding director Peter McMahon. Weidlinger, who had an expertise in special structures and was closely linked to the pioneers of 20th-century Modernism, designed his own three-bedroom cottage, completed in 1953. One of those famous peers,

The exhibition materials are displayed in a series of curved vitrines that form a circle within the main room of the Archives building. Japan is one of the many countries—both Eastern and Western—that hasn’t been sufficiently respectful of its modernist architectural heritage. Still, preservationists in most countries would envy Japan its National Archives of Modern Architecture, conceived by the late architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki and created by the government in 2012. The Archives benefits from public funding, its own building (within the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden in Tokyo’s Yushima neighborhood), and, if that weren’t enough, Tadao Ando as its honorary director. It

Although high-speed-rail efforts in a number of places could reinvigorate the transportation sector, in general, investment in new air, rail, and bus infrastructure remains sluggish, with considerable variation by region. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].