The International Conference Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond, will be taking place at ETH Zurich, 2-4 September 2026. We aim to examine ‘character’ as a historical concept ...

Not long ago, recent enough to feel current, architecture entered a moment in which buildings became legible as products. The framing offered discipline and a refreshed perspective to an industry that ...

Courtney McDonnell Architects and Henry J Lyons have emerged as the main winners at the prestigious Building and Architect of the Year Awards 2025, held at the InterContinental Hotel in Dublin. The ...

Concerns about embodied carbon are increasing the impetus to design architecture that stands the test of time. But just how long should we expect a building to last? Nat Barker reports. "When we build ...

If you live in a city, chances are you’re surrounded by buildings that all start to blur together after a while. The same ...

What does it take to design a building? There’s creating spaces that are efficient and pleasing, and bringing in beauty with colours, lighting and aesthetics. Structural engineering that makes ...

The story of the workers who built it is ‘off the main path, overlooked, and only dimly legible,’ writes Kurtz in ‘Men at ...

Arguing that architects usually work with the resources available to them, she refuses to focus on one-of-a-kind buildings, redirecting her efforts instead toward scalable, structural change within ...

American studio S9 Architecture has completed a building for The Cleveland Foundation that features warm cedar cladding, large windows and a post-and-beam structural system made of mass timber.

Glass architecture has drastically changed the face of modern cities. From being regarded as weak or purely aesthetic, glass slowly evolved to dominate the face of contemporary architecture, carrying ...