Architecture: Research Guide

The monthly newsletter showcases pioneering projects, advanced materials, and transformative thinkers. 

Designed by Gensler and SWA, the trail–laced corporate compound ranks as the largest mass-timber campus development in the United States.

Function and style lend these small products big impact.

The 5,500-square-foot building designed by Chris Dyson Architects offers interdisciplinary arts classes and event space within a historic setting.

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

The design community in Southern California—and beyond—rallies to support displaced colleagues, friends, and neighbors during the extreme fire event.

The reusable pavilion, designed by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia for Acciona Energía, debuted at the most recent America’s Cup.

Included are 25 sites representing 29 countries across five continents—and the Moon. 

The 23 winning projects celebrate exceptional work by architects with New York City–based practices, including REX, CookFox, and Snøhetta.

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

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.

The 350-space garage in Wendlingen, Germany, combines sustainable materials, soundproof design, and adaptability.

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.

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

This month’s lineup includes an exhibition at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp that examines the ‘urban villa’ typology and envisions its transformation into a model for affordable communal housing.

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

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.

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

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

Whipped by brutal winds, the historic wildfire event unfolding across Southern California has claimed thousands of homes, businesses, and local landmarks. 

Renzo Piano Building Workshop partner Joost Moolhuijzen joins the DESIGN:ED Podcast to discuss the development of London’s Shard Place and the design philosophies that have made the firm one of the most recognizable in the profession.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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