Cruise ships through the Great Lakes have long skimmed Lake Erie between Toronto and Cleveland, without stopping in Buffalo. A forthcoming cruise terminal by LiRo-Hill will offer a new link on the network, and plug Buffalo into the Great Lakes region’s cruising industry. New York Governor Kathy Hochul shared renderings this week of the cruise terminal […]
Transforming the Ritual of Letter Writing into Sculptural Design As handwritten letters quietly disappear from daily life, designer Maja Stamenković translates the ritual of correspondence into a sculptural object. Named Love Letters »M«, the collectible side table reimagines the letter M as a three-dimensional form, crowned by a triangular volume inspired by the flap […]
In Singapore, Metre Architects transformed a compact 462-square-foot (43-square-meter) studio apartment into a layered living space that feels far more generous than its footprint suggests. Designed for a young professional who enjoys cooking, working from home, hosting friends, and relaxing with movie nights, the apartment had to function in multiple ways without feeling crowded. The […]
✕ Location: Old Westbury, New York Project size: 7,000 square feet Program: Victory Lap is a two-story primary residence built from the ground up for a couple of philanthropic empty nesters, with grown children and grandchildren. Sited on a previously undeveloped, heavily wooded lot in Old Westbury, New York, the home encompasses approximately 7,000 square […]
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, La Biennale di Venezia president, and directors Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu announced today the title and theme of La Biennale Architettura 2027. Shu and Wenyu are cofounders of Hangzhou, China-based Amateur Architecture Studio. Last November, they were named the artistic directors of the 20th staging of La Biennale Architettura. The 2027 thematic […]
Do you have an outstanding image that tells a compelling architectural story? The 2026 Vision Awards has a range of categories, from hyperrealistic or artistic renderings to expressive drawings or hybrid digital mediums. Start your entry > Architects love their precedents. The ability to pull a reference from the proverbial hat and anchor a concept […]
After miles of legwork, dozens of espressos, too much pasta, and an astronomical amount of art at the Venice Biennale, I’m back at my desk in New York City. It was historical. It was political. It was thrilling and moving. Did the Biennale “implode” because of boycotts, resignations, and international disputes, as some critics have […]
Fusing elements of Persian architecture with Christian altarpieces, Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives. The Iranian artist has long reckoned with women’s fight for equality, particularly amid censorship and religious dogma in her native country. Through vibrant gradients that radiate across her sculptural paintings, Khosravi entices the viewer […]
The City of Dallas’s public call for input on the future of Dallas City Hall received more than 400 submissions. One proposal that showed promise while preserving the distinctive building designed by I. M. Pei is City South, came from studio work at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) College of Architecture, Planning and […]
inside cyril kongo-graffitied rolls-royce black badge cullinan A Rolls-Royce motor car has never been a static object of luxury or curation of materials. From the psychedelic swirls of John Lennon’s Phantom V to the biomimetic structures of Iris van Herpen’s Syntopia and the tea-house-inspired tranquility of Kengo Kuma’s Dawn, a Roll-Royce has always been […]
Courtesy of Bled El Abar Collective + 15 Courtesy of Bled El Abar Collective Text description provided by the architects. The modest well, built using traditional masonry, is located in the dunes of the Grand Erg Oriental, over 30 kilometers from the nearest inhabited village, along routes used for millennia by North African pastoral nomads. […]