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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Pelli Clarke & Partners Completes a Monumentally Scaled Concourse at Boston’s South Station

3 days ago | architecturalrecord.com | Matthew Marani

Attendees of the AIA’s national conference who plan to arrive in Boston via train or bus at the South Station Transportation Center will be pleasantly surprised by its new eye-catching vaulted concourse. Designed by the New Haven studio of Pelli Clarke & Partners (PCP), the gateway is the first completed piece of a multiphase transformation of the intermodal hub that rationalizes its mishmash of transit infrastructure.
Game Changer: Video Game Engines for Visualization

5 days ago | architecturalrecord.com | Matthew Marani

Architectural TechnologyArchitect Continuing Education Project visualization is as old as the profession itself. Physical models and renderings—long made by hand or, more recently, computers—have brought plans and drawings to life to support the design process. What is new, though, is that architectural practices have increasingly turned to an unlikely source for help in simulating a project: video games. No, firms haven’t been turned into giant arcades.
Thought Partner: AI and Design

5 days ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

Hawk’s experience is just one example of how AI is being integrated into the practice of architecture. Artificial intelligence has existed in our everyday digital experience for years: think autocorrect in Microsoft Word or voice-based personal assistants like Apple’s Siri. And since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022, AI has appeared in a growing number of existing tools, including those in the AEC industry.
In Venice, an Architecture Biennale with a Dystopian Flair

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Ian Volner

Architecture NewsArchitecture Festivals I have seen the future. And it’s a headache. Carlo Ratti’s international exhibition at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale is intended to be a searching, no-bad-ideas rap session on the human prospect—the possibilities, pitfalls, and space-faring AI-assisted freak-outs confronting global civilization in the 21st century.
Osaka's World Expo Arrives, Out of Step with Its Moment

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Clifford Pearson

Architecture NewsOpinion It has been nearly a century since an international exposition opened at a moment as fraught as today. Like the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, is shadowed by a breakdown in global relations, war in Europe, and extreme rhetoric everywhere. The notion of gathering 158 nations to exchange visions of peace and progress feels naïve right now.
A New Exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in New York Traces the Evolution of Concrete in Tall Buildings

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Joann Gonchar

Architecture NewsOpinion The aim of In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, the current exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan, is to set the record straight about tall buildings and their structural materials, says Carol Willis, the museum’s president and director. Through the 1970s, the narrative of the skyscraper was synonymous with steel, she says, but that has since changed; the second chapter of the story on tall buildings is all about concrete.
Kéré Architecture-Designed Thomas Sankara Mausoleum Opens in Burkina Faso

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

Architects & Firms In Burkina Faso, a “site of fear” has been transformed into one of remembrance and hope with the opening of a mausoleum commemorating Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary former president of the landlocked West African country. Located in the capital of Ouagadougou, the laterite and clay brick structure, designed by 2022 Pritzker Prize winner and Burkina Faso native Francis Kéré, caps the first stage of the Thomas Sankara Memorial Park.
Kengo Kuma and Associates Teams with Corgan for the Newest Tower in Dallas’s Harwood District

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | David Sokol

ProjectsBuildings by TypeTall Building Projects On the edge of downtown Dallas, real estate developer Harwood International has been transforming 19 city blocks into an eponymous mixed-use neighborhood since 1984. The undertaking has been as coherent in principle as it is steadily paced: office and residential towers are uniformly high-end and connected by a walkable streetscape, which alternates between leafy respites and hospitality destinations.
Political Headwinds Cloud Living Future’s Annual Gathering in Portland

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Randy Gragg

Architecture NewsClimate Change & Sustainability For the Living Future Conference’s annual May gathering, the storm of shifting federal policies clouded much of the event’s normally sunny idealism.
Lake|Flato and KSS Design Philadelphia’s Tallest Mass-Timber Structure

2 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Joann Gonchar

ProjectsBuildings by TypeColleges & Universities For some, the terms data science and artificial intelligence conjure images of people focused on computer screens and manipulating lines of code. But for a recently completed building housing these disciplines at the University of Pennsylvania, the architects Lake|Flato with KSS envisioned an environment where people would instead engage with each other.