Architectural Record

Architectural Record is a monthly magazine from the United States focused on architecture and interior design. Released by BNP Media, it is often referred to as "The Record" of architectural history. For over 125 years, Architectural Record has attracted readers from the fields of architecture, engineering, and design by highlighting impressive architectural achievements from around the world. The magazine includes news, opinion pieces, critiques, and sections for continuing education, providing a comprehensive range of content. One of its standout features is the stunning, high-quality photographs that enhance the showcased projects, making the magazine appealing to a wider audience as well.

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Architect and Planner Léon Krier Dies at 79

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

Architecture News Léon Krier, the controversial architect and planner who spearheaded the New Urbanism movement, died this Tuesday in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was 79. Suffering from colon cancer, he apparently jumped to his death from the walls of Palma’s cathedral—though they do not name him, local newspapers have reported the suicide of a 79-year-old Luxembourger.
Design Vanguard 2025: Current Interests

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Pansy Schulman

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms Founded in 2018 by Mira Henry and Matthew Au, Los Angeles–based Current Interests situates its architectural practice at the intersection of materials research and creative exploration.
Design Vanguard 2025: Sala Hars

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Chris Foges

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms The founders of Sala Hars like to joke that their base in Mexico City is a natural midpoint between their hometowns—though it is hardly convenient for either. Juan Sala grew up 2,000 miles away in Colombia, while Douglas Harsevoort hails from distant Wisconsin. Nevertheless, the pair found more significant advantages in their adopted home, where they have worked since graduating.
Design Vanguard 2025: T+E+A+M

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms Does any long-term good come out of the Venice Architecture Biennale? To this question the Ann Arbor, Michigan–based firm T+E+A+M offers an encouraging answer.
Design Vanguard 2025: HCCH Studio

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Clifford Pearson

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms Fast, cheap, and smart: that’s the way Shanghai-based HCCH Studio tends to work when creating its spatially dynamic and programmatically adaptive projects. Like many emerging firms, the husband and wife team of Chenchen Hu and Hao Chen, both 38, has excelled at working with limited time and money to explore novel ways of using materials and crafting form.
Design Vanguard 2025: Ben Pennell

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms Ben Pennell is reaching for the future of architecture with dirt-caked hands. He has built and financed many of his projects, either alone or with a ragtag group of students, friends, and tradespeople. And whatever he earned from one project he plowed into the next. There is an element of impatience at play; Pennell, 32, isn’t predisposed to waiting for work (or permission to build).
Design Vanguard 2025: Leopold Banchini

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms “Architecture is a great tool for discovering the world,” says Geneva-born Leopold Banchini. In his adult life to date, the 43-year-old has lived, studied, and worked in places as diverse as Australia, Bahrain, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland, the U.S., and his native Switzerland.
CookFox Transforms a 19th Century Manhattan Storehouse into a Modern Workplace

3 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Ian Volner

ProjectsBuildings by TypeAdaptive Reuse and RenovationInfrastructure & Industrial ProjectsWood ProjectsWorkplace Design Architects & Firms In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible.
Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Opens at Kensington Gardens

3 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Tim Abrahams

Architecture News The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public in London this weekend. Named A Capsule in Time, it is the 25th structure in a series that began with a Zaha Hadid creation in 2000. With a monumentality that suits the milestone anniversary, Tabassum’s charming pavilion is composed of two half domes and two arches, arranged in the form of a capsule.
Selldorf's Controversial Renovation of the Sainsbury Wing Reopens to the Public

3 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Chris Foges

ProjectsBuildings by TypeAdaptive Reuse and RenovationMuseums & Art Centers Annabelle Selldorf will be happy if no one remembers the changes that her three-year renovation has brought to the Sainsbury Wing of London’s National Gallery. That will show that the museum has achieved its main goal—to bring millions of visitors through its new front door in an easy, intuitive way.