Architecture · Design · Art · Built Environment
Architectural Record names the five jurors for its 2026 Products of the Year competition, spanning building-envelope consulting, architecture, lighting design, adaptive reuse, and technical detailing. Winning products are scheduled for publication in the magazine’s November 2026 issue.
COOKFOX Architects has completed the 30,000-square-foot Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, combining weathering steel, mass timber, exhibition galleries, archives, and performance spaces around a storytelling-led design.
French Alpine illustrator and graphic designer Clara Bergoënd draws on mountain folklore, nature spirits, healing traditions, astrology and fashion to create surreal, dreamlike imagery shaped by her life in the Alps.
After four decades of anonymity, artist Joyce Kozloff identified herself as an original Guerrilla Girls member who worked under the pseudonym Liubov Popova.
Seattle artist Debra Broz cuts and recombines secondhand ceramic figurines into hybrid ‘Superorganisms,’ using familiar kitsch to create sculptures that shift between playful recognition and the uncanny.
When air quality alerts go out across New York City—as they did last week, with smoke from wildfires burning in Canada settling over the five boroughs—the guidance from public health agencies is consistent: Stay indoors. Close your windows. Avoid unnecessary time outside. It’s good advice, but it leaves out an important question: What kind of […]
BIGX Reframes the Indoor Playground as a Digital Environment Designed by Fun Connection Design (Funconn) in collaboration with Ningnuo Investment Management Company, BIGX Super Sports Playground explores a new approach to indoor sports environments through the integration of digital culture, industrial aesthetics, and interactive spatial systems. Responding to changing expectations around leisure and exercise, […]
Andreu World 25 years of big ideas. Now it’s your turn. The International Design Contest —Manufacturing the Future— is still open, and there’s still time to participate. This competition was submitted by an ArchDaily user. If you’d like to submit a competition, call for submissions or other architectural ‘opportunity’ please use our “Submit a Competition” […]
In the Hamptons, New York, architecture and interior design firm Mapos created a modern family home overlooking Peconic Bay for longtime clients who wanted a place where multiple generations could gather for years to come. Designed Around a 70-Foot Sycamore Tree One of the biggest influences on the design wasn’t the view, but a towering […]
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, which opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City on Sunday, July 5th, is an ambitious exhibition that examines architecture as a medium through which liberation was negotiated. Curators Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye cast a wide net across West Africa, bringing together […]
Kinderoase, a new timber childcare center for Munich’s Technical University designed by Kéré Architecture is now open. At the heart of the building is any child’s dream: a slide that connects floors. The kindergarten building is made entirely of wood, apart from an emergency stair and its foundation. The project was designed in close collaboration […]
There’s a lovely, naughty quality to Simon Vergély’s work. A mischievous take on modern life that imagines what might happen if we could get away with it. His scenarios are wicked, surreal and often a little dark, casting a grotesque lens on our humanity. Shocking and funny in the same breath. In one film, titled […]
