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Jeanne Gang speaks at Architectural Record's 2012 Innovation conference.

Francis Gregory Library, Washington, D.C., Adjaye Associates, 2012. Photo © Edmund SummersDavid Adjaye, Founder and Principal Architect of Adjaye Associates, delivered the closing keynote at Record's 10th Innovation Conference on Thursday. He took the audience through two recently completed projects and one under construction — the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Photo courtesy Marc Averette/Wikimedia CommonsFrank Gehry has been tapped to master-plan the interiors and a new park and performing arts center for the iconic Bacardi Tower and Museum campus in Miami. The former Bacardi headquarters, whose blue-and-white tiled and stained glass facades has made it one of the city’s most recognizable structures, recently was sold to the National YoungArts Foundation, a non-profit organization Gehry has long supported.

It has become fashionable in some circles to say China is about to stumble in its headlong rush to build, build, build. I looked for signs of demise on a visit there this summer.

An exhibition of drawings by SITE's James Wines shows a fertile and subversive mind at work.

The AIA reports that the Architectural Billings Index rose 50.2 in August, the first time it has landed in positive territory since March (a number below 50 denotes a decrease in billings).

West Kowloon Bamboo Theater courtesy WKCDAArchitects worldwide are now welcome to submit an Expression of Interest for West Kowloon Cultural District Authority's "M+" museum of visual culture, to be completed in 2017.

A day shy of the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reached an agreement to resume construction on the Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site.

New York City-based architect Deborah Berke has been named UC Berkeley's first Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship Prize winner.