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Asia Design Forum held its fifth Design Roulette in Beijing, focusing on the topic "Design and Time."

By next summer, Porcelanosa, a tile, kitchen, and bath product manufacturer based in Villareal, Spain, will have a new home in midtown Manhattan's historic Commodore Criterion Building. London-based Foster + Partners designed the interiors for the company's flagship showroom, which will feature products from the Porcelanosa

At a conference in Granada, Nicaragua, speakers talked about what's important now in architecture.

Asia Design Forum will host its fifth Design Roulette in Beijing on July 5, focusing on the topic: Design and Time.

A group of friends and colleagues paid tribute to critic Ada Louise Huxtable six months after her death at 91. 

Jean Nouvel's design for the National Art Museum of China, in Beijing, from the Financial Times.In August, RECORD was the first to report that Jean Nouvel was the likely winner for the National Art Museum of China in Beijing...

On Tuesday afternoon the Construction Industry Round Table (the national business trade association known as CIRT), in partnership with the ACE Mentoring Program of America, hosted the final round for its seventh annual Design Competition Awards Program at Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum.

An exhibition in New York City highlights innovative housing in the Austrian capital. 

Photo by William HanleyThis afternoon, RECORD deputy editor and veteran architecture critic and journalist Suzanne Stephens was honored with the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award, named for the former RECORD editor in chief and journalist. The award was bestowed at a lunch reception at Cipriani Wall Street, in a 1842 Greek Revival building by architect Isaiah Rogers (and later added onto by McKim, Mead and White) Stephens called "true architecture" in her brief remarks.

New York City’s Center for Architecture held an event this morning to announce For a Resilient Rockaway (FAR ROC), a two-part competition to design an affordable housing-focused development on the Rockaway Peninsula, one of the coastal sections of the city severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy.