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Architectural Record - January 2025

2025 January

RECORD kicks off 2025 with a special CEU section on prefabrication. Included are dispatches on advances in modular multifamily housing, airport expansion projects that embrace novel construction methods, a Swiss-born concrete flooring solution, and a small mass-timber dwelling aiming to solve a big problem. Also profiled are newly realized projects: a modular public restroom in New York, a Danube River-spanning bridge, and a pop-up luxury retail destination that repurposes freight containers. Also in January, we visit a terra-cotta-clad office tower in Berlin and invite three architects to assess a trio of notable new projects in Houston, Los Angeles, and Cambridge.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

NBCUniversal Campus

Architects on Architects

Lever Architecture and Field Operations Marries the Pastoral to the Corporate for NBCUniversal’s L.A. Campus

Los Angeles

Andrew Holder Claus Benjamin Freyinger

January 13, 2025

Within a reimagined Hollywood headquarters, the founders of The LADG question architecture’s role to render safe the interaction between industry and humanity.

Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Architects on Architects

At MIT, SANAA Shapes a Music Building Among Midcentury Icons with Respectful Irreverence

Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 10, 2025

The Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building marks a departure from the firm’s signature style while creating a dialogue with the buildings surrounding it.

Cannady Hall

Architects on Architects

Karamuk Kuo’s First U.S. Building Unites the Rice School of Architecture

Houston

James Gauer

January 15, 2025

Clad in glass and terra-cotta panels, the Swiss firm’s Cannady Hall builds helps to build community by foregrounding transparency.

College Road - Continuing Education - Prefabrication

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

January 1, 2025

This special section explores the latest in prefabrication, highlighting technological advances, structural innovations, and feats of infrastructural engineering.

College Road

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

A New Generation of Projects Could Reshape the Residential-Construction Market

Matthew Marani

January 6, 2025

New approaches to modular construction from Houston to London are showing improved results in cost, quality, and construction timelines.

Rippmann Floor System

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

A Swiss Startup Reinvents Concrete Flooring with Gothic-Inspired Engineering

Andrew Ayers

January 7, 2025

Gigon Guyer’s CreaTower I will likely be the first project to debut a prefabricated concrete flooring solution that draws on historical vaulting techniques and cuts embodied carbon by two thirds.

Polyhaus

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

Polyhaus’s Tiny Mass-Timber ADU Offers a Possible Solution to a Very Big Housing Problem

San Diego

Russell Fortmeyer

January 3, 2025

Using 25 repeating CLT panel shapes, the newly patented housing system achieves a construction cost of $550 per square foot in California’s expensive market.

Lopez Playground Restroom

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

On Staten Island, 1100 Architect Debuts New York’s First Modular Public Restroom

Staten Island, New York

Pansy Schulman.

January 7, 2025

As New York City grapples with a public restroom crisis, modular design presents a quicker and cheaper approach to expansion.

LAX Expansion

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

Prefab Takes Flight at U.S. Airports

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

January 9, 2025

Expansion projects at the L.A and Atlanta airports exemplify how modular and prefabricated construction can reduce costs, shorten timelines, and minimize disruptions.

Danube Valley Bridge

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

Schlaich Bergermann Partner’s Danube Valley Bridge Opens in Austria

Linz, Austria

Matthew Marani

January 7, 2025

Through a combination of prefabricated components and strategic construction methods, the new bridge demonstrates how complex infrastructure can be built with minimal disruption.

Bal Harbour Shops Access Pop-Up

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

LOT-EK Transforms Humble Cargo Containers into a Retail Oasis

West Palm Beach, Florida

January 10, 2025

Twenty-eight shipping containers create a portable version of Florida’s famed Bal Harbour Shops that combines industrial materials with elegant design.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

January 2025 Editor’s Letter

Architects on Architects

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

January 3, 2025

RECORD’s first issue of 2025 pairs notable projects with architect-reviewers.

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First Look

Sauerbruch Hutton Anchors a Mixed-Use Plot with a Glinting Jewel Box

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

January 2, 2025

In Berlin, the firm adapts an unbuilt Miesian scheme for the 21st century using its preferred building medium: architectural terra-cotta.

Casa Curva

House of the Month

On Chile’s Lago Ranco, Hevia Poblete Arquitectos Realizes a Lakeside Retreat with a Modular Steel Exoskeleton

Lago Ranco, Chile

Molly Heintz

January 17, 2025

The linear house, dramatically sited in the Andean foothills, accommodates a family’s multi-generational tradition of returning to the lake for respite.

Autodesk University

Conference

Autodesk University Showcases the Future of Design Technology in San Diego

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

January 14, 2025

Organized by Autodesk, the annual conference drew nearly 12,000 industry professionals from around the world for a preview of the latest innovations and exciting news.

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To Make ‘The Brutalist’ Monumental, the Filmmakers Approached Cinema as Architecture

Review: ‘The Brutalist,’ directed by Brady Corbet

Dante Ciampaglia

Dante A. Ciampaglia

December 20, 2024

Directed and co-written by Brady Corbet, the 215-minute cinematic epic of midcentury America treats the discipline of architecture with immense seriousness and humanity.

Assembly by Design

Books

‘Assembly by Design’ Challenges the Accepted Story behind the Design of UN Headquarters in New York

Review: ‘Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior’ by Olga Touloumi

Anthony Paletta

January 13, 2025

Olga Touloumi’s book reveals how bureaucrats and technical advisors—not star architects—helped shape the design of the United Nations complex, with broadcast media top of mind.

Beyond the Envelope

Books

In ‘Beyond the Envelope,’ Students Interview 21 Leading Designers About Architecture

Review: ‘Beyond the Envelope’ edited by Tom Verebes

Katharine Logan

January 9, 2025

The conversations, ranging from material exploration to mass customization, are complemented by photography of significant 21st-century buildings.

Modernist Animal Habitat

Guess the Architect: January 2025

January 3, 2025

Designed by an émigré from the Soviet Union, the curved structure helped introduce Modernism to a skeptical public—and illustrated its theatrical potential.

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Products

New Hardware Products for Winter 2025

January 20, 2025

Function and style lend these small products big impact.

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