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From 'Midnight in Paris' to 'Tron: Legacy': These films should be on every Architecture 101 syllabus .

In the introduction to her new book One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building, Judith Dupré — the author of the bestseller Skyscrapers — calls its designers Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) “a firm with unparalleled expertise in skyscraper design.” The practice, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, recently won numerous A+Awards for projects…

Updated May 9th, 2016, upon news that the Makoko Floating school has been shortlisted for the 2016 A ga Khan Award for Architecture. If you dove into our collection on floating architecture back in 2013, you could be forgiven for believing that waterborne buildings are purely lodged in the realms of luxury design. However, Amsterdam-based firm…

These days, I frequently look around me and wonder: “How on earth did I get here?” This question res onates not only on a personal level, but for the field of architectural media as a whole. 12 years ago, I ran the gauntlet of architectural education at Edinburgh University driven by a passion for great buildings,…

L: Visualization of 53W53 Tower by Jean Nouvel via Bloomberg; R: House for Essex, via Dezeen. Mile-H igh Mansions: If you have a few dollars to spare and appreciate a stunning panoramic view across Manhattan, perhaps you’ll consider purchasing the duplex penthouse at the summit of Jean Nouvel’s 53W53 tower above MoMA — a steal at…

L: Center for Sufism © Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie Architects; R: OfficeUS catalog by Pentagram Dome Sweet Dome: The dome has long been an element of architecture; while the likes of Bernard Tschumi may have reinvented it for contemporary applications, others hearken back to previous eras. Inspired by Philip Johnson’s 1959 pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks,…

Long a staple of the architectural diet, so to speak, bakeries have evolved into multifunctional pla ces intended for much more than simply selling bread, attracting people to stay and eat in sophisticated, stylish surroundings. With Passover drawing to a close this weekend, we’d like to mark the end of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread…

Dan Kiley was no ordinary gardener. His landscape designs alongside Mid-century masters such as Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, I.M. Pei, and Kevin Roche were, by many accounts, the beginning of Landscape Modernism. His distinct brand of design took the fundamentals of French garden design to new places, giving them a Modernist sensibility, free from the…

With the its local scene gaining momentum, the Chicago Architecture Biennial is threatening to steal some of the Venice Biennale’s thunder. (Please don’t give me concrete shoes!) One of the most exciting things in Chicago — and part of what is fueling the momentum of the Biennial — is the schools there. They have a…