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5 days ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
As the leading manufacturer of luxury architectural drains proudly made in the U.S., Infinity DrainⓇ’s linear drainage solutions have endless outdoor applications from poolside to grillside. Infinity Drain’s design-forward linear drains can be seamlessly integrated into walkways, pool surrounds, driveways, outdoor showers, and balconies.
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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Kelly L. Beamon |Kristine Klein
Like a household, architecture firms can benefit from having multiple generations under one roof. Elders establish values and identity, midcareer leaders possess enough experience to weigh both traditional and new ideas, and young professionals provide a steady flow of fresh insights. Award-winning 70-year-old firm Robert P. Madison International (RPMI) is an excellent example that shows that a generational mix works.
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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Paige Davidson |Kristine Klein
For the last 15 years, construction company New Wave London has called an industrial 2-story headquarters in London’s Brent neighborhood home. However, it was time for a change. New Wave London reached out to longtime friends and colleagues at Thomas-McBrien Architects to tweak the layout. To retain the existing building, minimize embodied carbon, and add almost 6,500 square feet of space, the architects opted for a glulam roof extension.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Sergio Ferro |Kristine Klein
Last year, MACK Books published Architecture from Below, which anthologized writings by the French Brazilian architect, theorist, and painter Sérgio Ferro. (Douglas Spencer reviewed it for AN.) Now, MACK follows with Design and the Building Site and Complementary Essays, the second in the trilogy of books dedicated to Ferro’s scholarship.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
This week Populous announced its acquisition of Fentress Architects. The merge was something the two practices had discussed for some time. For the firms’ leadership—including Bruce Miller, global chair and CEO of Populous; and Curt Fentress, founder and principal of Fentress Architects—now felt like the right time, not to mention that the cultures and extensive portfolios of the two firms are similar in more ways than one.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Ellen Peirson |Kristine Klein
Time is geological in Oxford. Its storied streets and colleges are largely sculpted from the same Jurassic belt of Corallian limestone that the English city sits on, much of it taken from the nearby quarry at Headington. What it means to be new takes on a radically different meaning here. The first stones to be cut from this quarry in the 1300s are impenetrably dense, a symbol of permanence to the buildings of some of the older colleges in Oxford, including “New” College’s bell tower.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
In 1939 Frank Lloyd Wright drew up plans for the Dinky Diner, a mobile kitchen that could accompany passengers on camping adventures across the American West. While the trailer was never realized in Wright’s lifetime, its spatial concepts (and constraints) coalesce with the architect’s design principles and reverence for nature in a new partnership between Airstream and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Nicholas Venezia |Kristine Klein
For me, photography is about knowing something is meaningful and documenting it properly because it may not be here tomorrow. There were a handful of events that shaped this perspective and determined my path as an architectural photographer. My visit to the Mattin Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a triangular arrangement of three creative arts buildings around a central courtyard, was one of them.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Michael Levy |Kristine Klein
Celebrated for her “architecture of relevance,” Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum’s pavilion A Capsule in Time opens to visitors today on the manicured lawn on London’s Kensington Gardens. Tabassum, and her Dhaka-based firm Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), are the recipient of the Serpentine Gallery’s 2025 Pavilion commission, marking 25 years since the commission began with a design by Zaha Hadid.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Ben Parker |Kristine Klein
In Shanghai, high culture is a booming industry. The Grand Theatre, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL), is the latest in a string of arts centers to open along the West Bund, in accordance with a master plan that has been in the works for the last decade and a half. Operated by the Shanghai Grand Theater Arts Group and supported by the City of Shanghai, it is one of three new theaters that will be opening in the neighborhood this year.
