6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (175+ words) House for Art Collectors in Highland Park, Ill. As guests arrive, a prismatic four-car garage—jacketed in blackened wood and capped with a pyramidal roof—is the first intervention by the 2022 Design Vanguard firm to come into view. It connects the…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (163+ words) Architects’ Houses by Dominic Bradbury. Phaidon, 352 pages, $90. Residential Architecture by Kazuo Shinohara, translated by David B. Stewart, Shin-ichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Nakamura; edited by Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund. Park Books, 284 pages, $40. The Eames Houses edited by Eckart Maise. Phaidon,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (474+ words) Two elongated gables, clad almost entirely in charred wood siding, stretch low across a five-acre site west of Minneapolis. At the entrance, that dark exterior gives way: blond cedar wraps a deep cantilevered cutout, framing floor-to-ceiling glass and a front…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) The All Straw House in New York’s Hudson Valley It looks like a furry but friendly wild animal or some strange new species: the 145-square-foot cabin, recently completed on a rural site near Hudson, New York, has a playfully off-kilter…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (179+ words) The Meander’s rectangular forms are arranged around a set of granite steps. Schwartz was approached by his future clients in 2018; then the design process stalled for several months during the pandemic. This hiatus, if anything, improved the final design, allowing…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (227+ words) The Horácká Arena is situated between a park and a school. Sports buffs will tell you that a stadium’s location can make or break a team. A bad combination of insufficient public transit access, endlessly expansive parking lots, and remoteness…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (685+ words) Architectural Record Verstas Architects Completes a Mortuary in Helsinki’s Malmi Cemetery The Finnish capital of Helsinki faces a challenge that is becoming all too familiar to many European cities. Earlier this year, its population crossed the 700,000 mark, but the cohort…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (405+ words) Bessette spoke with RECORD senior editor Matthew Marani about the evolution of Moment Factory, the challenges of designing immersive architectural experiences, the Aura series that has revitalized historic religious buildings, among other topics. RECORD: What were the cultural and design…...