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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Oscar Fock |Kristine Klein
Since the Trump administration rolled out its first rounds of tariffs in March, sudden announcements and equally quick rollbacks have created an unpredictable market for manufacturers and vendors of sustainable building products like lumber and aluminum. “For supply chain logistics, the quick announcements and quick rollouts are a stress factor for anyone involved in the chain,” said Rick Arrington, production planner at Texas-based custom lumber mill Delta Millworks.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Jesse Dorris |Kristine Klein
The height of destination hospitality used to be a beautiful landscape—say, the dappled sunlight across the rolling hills of Napa Valley or Provence or Paarl, South Africa—viewed from a picturesque patio while sipping wine from grapes grown just there. Or a rural stay-over in a historic inn where a day of apple picking ends with sampling ciders and pies.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Suleman Anaya |Kristine Klein
One of the world’s great urban parks, Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec is at once the main green lung oxygenating the metropolis’s infinite sprawl; a respite for countless families that, looking to unwind, flock to its playgrounds, lawns, and cultural sites every weekend; and in need of rehabilitation. Its fraying edges are not surprising given that the forest’s history can be traced back over 3,000 years.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Laura Raskin |Kristine Klein
“It’s impossible to work on marriage and collect recipes, investigate gardenias, observe behaviors of pregnant women, think about the education of children, the managing of a house, gardening, holidays and everything that I’ve been doing with half my mind and all my heart—and at the same time to work just hard enough to be paid.” While this sounds, eerily, like many of the texts I’ve fired off to friends in the last five years, it is an entry from the 1943 diary of Mary Coss Barnes, an...
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Brian Libby |Kristine Klein
Visitors encounter community spaces enlivened with colorful artwork from murals to a covered events plaza before even entering Portland, Oregon’s renovated and expanded Midland Library by Colloqate and Bora Architecture & Interiors. Near the entrance are a series of orange and pink hexagonal sculptures resembling children’s building blocks, by the artist team HYBYCOZO. A new entry canopy provides a covered space for farmers’ markets, fairs, and other events.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
After a successful 16th season, Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is now looking ahead to its 2025–2026 programming. The film festival centers the “creative spirit of all things connected to architecture and design from around the world.”In this last season, ADFF added two new stops to its lineup, hosting screenings at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut, and in Mumbai, India. Both locations will now be included in its annual cycle, ADFF shared.
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1 month ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
The Van Alen Institute announced today its next executive director will be Hayley Eber. Eber will take the helm at the urban design nonprofit following a three-year stint as acting dean of the Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Eber follows the tenure of previous Van Alen executive director Deborah Marton, who announced in July 2024 she would depart from the position after five years on the job.
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1 month ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
Freedom Plaza, the proposed megaproject for the long-underutilized site adjacent to the United Nations, seeks to bring housing, a museum dedicated to democracy, and hotels (and maybe even a casino) to a swath of land along the East River. In February 2024, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Soloviev Group, the landowner, shared visuals of the skyline-transforming mixed-use development that plans to set up between 38th and 41st Streets on 1st Avenue.
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1 month ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
In Buffalo, New York, the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo (LACB) has an important cultural role to play in the city that overlooks Lake Erie. Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Olmsted-designed parkspaces, and cultural institutions by other greats including Eliel and Eero Saarinen are among the buildings and landscapes that shape the city. The nonprofit—focused on advancing the city’s architectural heritage and legacy—operates from the Richardson Olmsted Campus, a milieu with its own rich history.
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1 month ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
It’s any kid’s childhood fantasy to have a dedicated space they can call their own: A room that can overflow with toys and reflect their style and interests. For a family with three kids living in Dumbo, the opportunity to acquire a one-bedroom apartment adjacent to its current unit couldn’t be passed up. It allowed the family’s living space to be expanded enough to create a special area just for the kiddos. Sarah Jacoby Architect led the renovation located inside a converted loft building.
