The Architect’s Newspaper

Influential architect Frank Gehry, whose “work goes to the heart of the art of our time,” dies at 96

Canadian-American architect Frank O. Gehry died today in his home in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 96. News of his passing was confirmed by Meaghan Lloyd, his chief of staff. Gehry died from ...
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SOM transforms the Waldorf Astoria through preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse

The Waldorf Astoria is not your everyday hotel. Guests have ranged from Winston Churchill to Marilyn Monroe to Lucky Luciano. There’s a salad named after it, and a Cole Porter song referencing that ...
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U.S. Department of Education may delist architecture as professional degree under Trump directive

Per stipulations in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), architecture will no longer be counted as a professional degree by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). This ...
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Bernheimer Architecture and LEVENBETTS design public library topped with affordable housing in the Bronx

Bernheimer Architecture and LEVENBETTS are partnering with HPD, NYPL, Settlement Housing Fund (SHF), and Kalel Companies to deliver 113 affordable units above another public library. (Courtesy ...
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President Trump shares plans for “cleaning, pointing, and painting” the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

On social media, Trump shared before-and-after renderings of the building’s granite facade repainted white. (Truth Social) In the Oval Office this week, Ingraham asked Trump if he’s worried about ...
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A competition seeks proposals to redesign toilet facilities at the Gropius House

Historic New England has launched a competition to design a separate, permanent public restroom for Gropius House, the Lincoln, Massachusetts, home of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Since the ...
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In Houston, Farshid Moussavi Architecture completes the first Ismaili Center in the U.S.

The Ismaili Center stands as a symbol for many Houstonians whose layered identities are shaped by religion and culture as much as place. (Iwan Baan) The Ismaili community is a sect of Shia Islam with ...
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A look at how architecture competitions are helping museums and cultural institutions approach their capital projects

Of the architectural commissions available today, few are as prestigious, or as high stakes, as those associated with a museum or cultural institution. While competitions are the norm for these ...
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If it ain’t woke, he won’t diss it: Patrik Schumacher lectures virtually in Waco

“Harvard has been taken over by the whole Me Too thing. The George Floyd thing was massive,” Patrik Schumacher recently told a room of noticeably bored Baylor University students in a class for ...
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Grafton Architects completes the Anthony Timberlands Center, the firm’s first building in the U.S., with modus studio

If you want to look into the heart of contemporary architecture today, you are going to need a REAL ID. You will have to pack your bags and find your way to Northwest Arkansas, a wrinkled, rugged ...
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Trump guts the Lincoln Bedroom bathroom, replacing a past renovation by Truman

Trump posted photographs of the historic bathroom newly clad with polished, statuary marble. The shower heads, door knobs, and coat racks are now gold. (Truth Social) Might we call the unchecked ...
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Holst Architecture completes Oregon’s tallest mass timber building

Designed by Holst Architecture and developed by Community Development Partners (CDP), Julia West House replaces an underutilized lot sold by a local church with 90 fully furnished apartments, 60 ...