The Architect's Newspaper

The Architect's Newspaper is a monthly magazine focused on architecture in the USA, available in print and online. Established in 2003 by William Menking, the editor-in-chief, and Diana Darling, the publisher, the publication aims to provide news and information that is important to architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, lighting designers, interior designers, academics, developers, contractors, and anyone else interested in the urban landscape.

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Akima Brackeen and Cory Henry among the 2025-26 Rome Prize winners

9 hours ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

There were 990 applicants, but only 35 came out on top. The American Academy in Rome (AAR) has announced the 2025–26 Rome Prize winners. Starting in September, these architects, designers, preservationists, artists, and scholars will reside at AAR’s historic Roman compound designed by McKim, Meade, and White for several months. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory Henry, founder of Los Angeles–based Atelier Cory Henry.
AN talks to Charlotte Malterre-Barthes about A Moratorium on New Construction

1 day ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

A Moratorium on New Construction, the forthcoming book by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, poses an unsettling question for many architects: What if we stopped building? And, in turn, what ecological and social benefit would such a moratorium deliver? How would it change practice? Malterre-Barthes is a professor at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL). She was previously at Harvard GSD, where she taught seminars and studios about building moratoria.
Winners of the 2025 Architectural League Prize engage with “plot,” whether as “land, drawing, or scheme”

1 day ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

The Architectural League of New York announced today this year’s winners of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, now in its 44th iteration. Plot was the theme to guide this year’s competition, which asked entrants to interrogate how architecture engages with “plot,” whether as “land, drawing, or scheme,” the League said in a statement.
Dave Bennink announces New York City Reuse Innovation Center to help boost circular economy

2 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

One-stop shops where people can go to find salvaged building materials in the name of circularity are popping up around the U.S.In San Antonio, the Material Innovation Center (MIC) works with contractors, reuse stores, and corporate donors to take in excess woodwork, windows, lumber, siding and other materials after buildings get demolished. This debris gets channeled toward affordable housing, all thanks to MIC.
Peterson Rich Office to renovate MoMA Design Store Soho

3 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Those shopping for the design-inclined know the MoMA Design Store Soho is the place to go. The more-than-just-a-museum-gift-shop, opened in 2001 at 81 Spring Street in a 19th-century building with cast iron columns and masonry walls concealed by past renovations. Peterson Rich Office (PRO) has been selected to redesign the 6,600-square-foot, 2-story space in New York’s preeminent shopping district, and reveal its historic innards.
Nora Wendl’s Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth is a critical “history of architecture, of women, and of glass”

3 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

The Edith Farnsworth House’s story has ad nauseum gone something like this: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe meets Dr. Edith Farnsworth at Georgia Lingafelt and Ruth Lee’s 1945 dinner party in Chicago, and they hit it off. Edith hires Mies to make her a house, Mies employs a young Myron Goldsmith to work out the details, costs skyrocket, Mies sues Edith (at Philip Johnson’s behest), then Edith wins, retires, and moves to Italy.
House Museum proposes memorial using chimneys to commemorate people and places lost in the Southern California wildfires

6 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

After the embers settled in Southern California, photographers like Tag Christof traversed ruined, macabre Los Angeles neighborhoods in search of what was left. Much of the imagery we saw after the fires were empty lots where a house used to be, charred trees, orange dystopian skies, and freestanding chimneys. How should the lives and places lost during the fires which recently swept Southern California be memorialized?
Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak, backed by the USDOT and Trump administration, will now oversee Penn Station project

6 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) secretary Sean Duffy declared yesterday the federal government is taking over New York Penn Station’s renovation and “withdrawing” the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from the project. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has placed Amtrak, under USDOT’s tutelage, in charge of the critical infrastructure project.
NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses vote to remain in Section 9, against privatization

6 days ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

It was the muckraker Jacob Riis who famously wrote about how the Lower East Side’s other half lived. Riis was given his due when, in 1949, a public housing complex by Walker & Gillette was named after him in the same neighborhood he opined about. A canonical park at Riis Houses followed in 1966 by M. Paul Friedberg. Following the conclusion to a landmark vote this week, Jacob Riis Houses will stay public.
RAMSA delivers a complex masonry facade for Korean retailer Shinsegae

6 days ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

A new facility for retail giant Shinsegae marks the first completed project in South Korea for Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA). Located in the heart of Seoul, the new building serves as a training center for the corporations employees and also features office space, ground floor retail, and a large auditorium. The structure’s exterior is wrapped in complex brick bond patterns and complementary limestone details—materials that appeased the client’s fondness for masonry.