2025 January Issue | Architectural Record

Architectural Record

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.

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

January 1, 2025

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

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

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

Matthew Marani

January 6, 2025

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

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

A Swiss Startup Reinvents Concrete Flooring with Gothic-Inspired Engineering

Andrew Ayers

January 7, 2025

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

Schlaich Bergermann Partner’s Danube Valley Bridge Opens in Austria

Linz, Austria

Matthew Marani

January 7, 2025

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

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

January 2025 Editor’s Letter

Architects on Architects

Josephine Minutillo

January 3, 2025

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

First Look

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

Leopoldo Villardi

January 2, 2025

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

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

Review: ‘The Brutalist,’ directed by Brady Corbet

Dante A. Ciampaglia

December 20, 2024

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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.

Guess the Architect: January 2025

RECORD Editors

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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