For November, RECORD surveys college and university projects extending well beyond the lecture hall: an art center, a vertical innovation hub, an academic district melding renovation and new construction, a mass-timber addition for an architecture school, and an amenity-filled student housing complex. Meanwhile, the Building Technology–focused CE section keeps with the higher education theme, detailing carbon-saving initiatives that range from enclosure retrofits and high-performance facades to adaptive-reuse strategies and seismically tuned hybrid mass-timber structures. Off campus, we profile projects in China, Switzerland, and Martha’s Vineyard, where the House of the Month is located.
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Top 10 Projects of 2024: The speedily built CoARCH Pavilion showcases wood construction and clever design solutions to the architecture students inside.
A hybrid timber structure brings the San Francisco school’s two campus cultures together, while reducing embodied carbon and enhancing seismic performance.
A state-of-the-art envelope upgrade for the John Andrews–designed home of the Graduate School of Design preserves a Modernist treasure while improving its energy performance.
Top 10 Projects of 2024: Landscaped courtyards and subtle interiors aim to improve patient experience at Switzerland’s largest pediatric healthcare facility.
The compact ‘Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the first major retrospective exhibition of the modernist architect.
The energy demands of AI are driving a construction boom for data centers, illuminating the long-obscured physical network that powers our cloud-based world.
The Boston-based architect leveraged helical pile foundations—used in hurricane-prone regions—to safeguard a light-filled coastal residence and the surrounding ecosystem.
The annual trade show in Bologna, Italy, highlighted state-of-the-art technology—such as 3D-printed textures and through-body coloration—and new trends.
Designed by one of the era's most influential architects, this school of art exemplifies early 20th century efforts to root novel forms in craft-based traditions.
The Madrid-based studio conceived ‘Polinature’ as a structure that can be plugged into existing environments, providing shade for humans and a way station for pollinators.