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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Walker MacMurdo |Kristine Klein
A small home in Wayne County, Missouri was torn apart by a tornado. An aerial image by Jeff Roberson taken on March 15 depicts chunks of stick-framed walls and half-recognizable debris strewn across a patchy lawn in an eviscerated orthography of middle-American life.
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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Ellen Peirson |Kristine Klein
At the entrance to Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) historic home in South Kensington, wide stone steps rise toward an ornate facade of carved Portland stone, with heavy wooden doors set beneath an archway that declares culture as cathedral. It’s built to inspire, yes, but also to intimidate—to display the spoils of a national collection shaped by colonial reach. On the other side of London, the same institution has opened its doors to V&A East Storehouse, with access to over 250,000 objects.
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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Ian Volner |Kristine Klein
As moviemaking is to Los Angeles, so design is to Milan. Homewares and interior fittings are the lifeblood, mythic history, cocktail chatter, and standard billboard fare of Italy’s commercial capital, and never more so than during Salone del Mobile, the mega-function that rolls into town every April.
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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Diana Budds |Kristine Klein
If your algorithms are anything like mine, there’s a lot of architecture and design served up no matter if I’m scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. One second I’m touring John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein House, the next I’m watching a deep dive into the psychology of reality TV homes, and then I’m seeing a roast of sofas that scream Instagram trend victim.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
In the human cardiovascular system blood, oxygen, and the heart can’t function without one another. At LifeServe Blood Center, a laboratory and blood donation center in Iowa, the building’s integrated design operates the same way: If you take away any component, it doesn’t work as it should. BNIM Architects designed the facility in Johnston, Iowa, to account for privacy, where needed, while also delivering a building that puts its life-saving vocation front and center.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Justin Beal |Kristine Klein
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future by Alan Weisman | Dutton | $32The expression “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” is meant to convey a sense of futility, of meaningless action in the face of catastrophe, but I have been thinking recently of how it might be turned on its head, reimagined as a small gesture of purpose, of good work left to be done aboard that superlative metaphor for capitalist overabundance and technological hubris.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
In its April Architecture Billings Index (ABI), the AIA shared that billings have dropped “in 28 out of the past 31 months.” This last month was no exception: April reported a score of 43.2, a decrease from March’s 44.1—any number below 50 indicates a decrease in billings from the previous month. Uncertain economic conditions have undoubtedly contributed to these latest declines, something that AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker remarked on a statement, included in this month’s report.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Joann Plockova |Kristine Klein
From their window in yellow frames, the residents of this distinctive brick-base, corner building can look out at the trees lining the park just across the street. It’s hard to believe there was once a highway out there, the view through the former glass and aluminum facade one of cars, smoke, and noise. Built in the 1970s, the mixed-used residential and industrial building in Madrid was once a plumbing and construction materials warehouse at its lower level.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) awarded the Thaden School in its fifth iteration. The 30-acre middle and high school campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, was a collective design effort by Marlon Blackwell Architects, EskewDumezRipple, and Andropogon Associates. The project pulls directly from the rural vernacular of the Ozark region.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Natalia Torija Nieto |Kristine Klein
Nestled among chili fields and palm tree groves, the new Vipp guesthouse in the artist-driven coastal town of Todos Santos, Mexico, is hidden in plain sight behind a modest wattle fence. Built in earth tones that mimic the local landscape, the house sits on a slanted rocky terrain interspersed with cacti and thorny shrubs.
