On Saturday, the Architect's Newspaper broke the news that Paul Goldberger, who has served as the New Yorker's resident architecture critic since 1997, is leaving the vaunted position for a less clearly defined role at New Yorker sister publication Vanity Fair, which is also published by Condé Nast. In a statement, Vanity Fair's editor, Graydon Carter said "This is an appointment that thrills me profoundly," calling Goldberger a "gifted commentator" and "brilliant writer."

Tuesday, March 27 was a glorious—though brisk—day for a hard-hat tour of Weiss/Manfredi's new visitor center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The building skirts the east periphery of the garden, transforming what Michael Manfredi calls the “subway style, meat-grinder” previous entry into a formal

New York-based HWKN (HollwichKushner), a firm headed by two of the impresarios behind Architizer, has won the 13th edition of the Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects Program—an annual competition to design a temporary structure for the courtyard attached to P.S.1, the New York City museum's contemporary art outpost in Queens.

Photo © 2008 by T&C Film AGThe Serpentine Gallery just announced that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will be designing the London art space’s annual summer pavilion. The Swiss firm and the Chinese artist/activist first worked together in 2008 on the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium in Beijing—a project that the artist later renounced. The announcement comes as London gears up to host this summer’s Olympic Games. We will post drawings as soon as they are available. In the meantime, the press release after the jump includes a description of the project...

"It's the new English major," designer and Record contributor Guy Horton told Salon.com, referring to an architecture degree's current value in the job market. He was quoted by Scott Timberg in a story about the dire state of the profession in the United States. The article is the latest to cite a study by Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce that showed a 13.9 percent unemployment rate for 22- to 26-year-old architecture graduates, among other doom-and-gloom statistics.

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(New York City, January 31, 2012) The new Pershing Square Signature Center designed by Frank Gehry opened today at a celebrity-studded event that included New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Edward Norton (a Signature Theatre trustee), and the architect himself.

Atelier Jean Nouvel's design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi

The American Institute of Architects released a complete list of winners of its annual awards today. View the winning people and projects after the jump...

If you have a design degree, this is not news, but according to the Washington Post, a new report confirmes what we all suspected...