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Architecture

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Building the New Urbanism

Urban planners take a cue from pre-WWII cities and towns

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Patent Pending

After a glorious renovation the old Patent Office Building opens its doors anew

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Interview with Adam Goodheart, Author of “Back to the Future”

The author talks about what makes the newly renovated Patent Office Building special

The Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Architect Daniel Libeskind’s zinc lightning bolt of a building is one of the most revolutionary structures built since the war in Germany or anywhere

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Minneapolis

The Guthrie Theater’s new home, designed by architect Jean Nouvel, makes a dramatic entrance

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Spain Makes a Stand

After more than 400 years, a fort built by conquistadors in the Carolinas has finally been found

The Frauenkirche of Dresden at Neumarkt in 2009

Dresden’s Crowning Glory

Sixty years after it was reduced to rubble by Allied bombing, the reconstructed Baroque Frauenkirche once again dominates the historic city’s skyline

The Robert N. Stewart Bridge

By Design

Over the past half-century the small town of Columbus, Indiana, has turned itself into a showplace of modern architecture

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed of any in the world and its archaeological sites are the most user-friendly.

The Glory That Is Rome

Thanks to renovations of its classical venues, the Eternal City has never looked better

Cathlapotle Plankhouse

Board Rooms

Near Portland, Oregon, archaeologists and Indians have built an authentic Chinookan plankhouse like those Lewis and Clark saw

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Shore Bird

Architect Santiago Calatrava created an urban landmark in the guise of an addition for the Milwaukee Art Museum

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Journey to the Seven Wonders

Though only one of the ancient marvels still stands, they still engage our imagination—and launch a thousand tours—more than two millennia later

"This is the energy of American culture at its most useful and exuberant," says Philadelphia architectural historian George Thomas, 58, of motels like the Caribbean, whose vintage style is echoed in the 2001 renovation of the Starlux.

Doo Wop by the Sea

Architects and preservationists have turned a strip of New Jersey shore into a monument to mid-century architecture. Can they keep the bulldozers at bay?

Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind: Architect at Ground Zero

From his Jewish Museum in Berlin to his proposal for the World Trade Center site, Daniel Libeskind designs buildings that reach out to history and humanity

Old Patent Office Building, ca. 1846

A Pantheon After All

There’s no more fitting venue for American initiative and American art than the old Patent Office building

Joinery techniques in even the largest modern structures are similar to those used by Henry David Thoreau to build his simple cabin.

Building to a Different Drummer

Today’s timber frame revivalists are putting up everything from millionaire mansions to a replica of Thoreau’s cabin

The condition of the main facade in 1979, showing absence of the main steps

Boss

The New York City courthouse that caused his downfall has been returned to its former glory, and Tweed’s odious reputation has been refurbished

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The Look of Architecture

Rural Studio architecture in Alabama

Class Act

In Alabama, students turn tires and bales of hay into striking architecture for the poor

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Out from under the Wrecking Ball

The Los Angeles Conservancy’s Modern Committee fights to rescue remnants of 1950s “Googie” architecture and other 20th-century landmarks

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