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Architecture

A circular, terraced building with layered horizontal bands and integrated greenery rises against a clear blue sky, viewed from a pedestrian walkway.

MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Is Experientially Compelling But Curatorially Thin

The museum struggles to present a coherent narrative of human culture, but its architecture succeeds in offering a new kind of public space in a megacity like Tokyo.
By Elisa Carollo
Professional portrait of Lina Ghotmeh, founder of LG—A, wearing a red blouse. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Architect, LG—A," on the right side.

Lina Ghotmeh Is Reimagining Cultural Architecture for a Connected World

In this Q&A, architect Lina Ghotmeh discusses how she’s reimagining the role of museums and cultural institutions through projects like the AlUla Contemporary Arts Museum, the British Museum’s Western Range and the Jadids’ Legacy Museum in Uzbekistan. She explains why art spaces must evolve into living ecosystems that reflect place, context and collective memory, and how her “archaeology of the future” approach bridges past and present to create architecture that is grounded and deeply connected to its surroundings.
By The Editors
An immersive video installation fills two walls with large projections of smoke and fire, evoking environmental destruction addressed in the triennial’s “Spectres” exhibition.

The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

Faced with the perplexity of our current social, political and ecological crises, the triennial proposes a new imaginary for the urban form.
By M Vulfson

How the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Went $100 Million Over Budget

By Helen Holmes

Taiwan Embraces ‘Weird’ Building Boom With NYC’s RUR Architects at the Helm

By David D'Arcy

David Adjaye to Design Benin Royal Museum, Housing Artifacts Stolen Under Colonialism

By Helen Holmes

The Oakland Museum Is Trying to Raise $85 Million for an Impressive Facelift

By Helen Holmes

I.M. Pei’s Impressive Art Collection Will Be Auctioned Off by Christie’s

By Helen Holmes

NYC’s New Museum Is the Latest Art Institution Feeling the Pressure to Expand

By Mariana Fernandez

Warren Buffett’s Investing Pal Charlie Munger Has Been Busy Designing College Dorms

By Sissi Cao

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s $56M Former Beverly Hills Home Is Officially for Sale

By Morgan Halberg

Notre Dame’s New Spire Might Look Very Different to the Original—A Competition Will Decide

By Clayton Schuster

Marc Jacobs’ Newlywed Life Includes a $9.18 Million Frank Lloyd Wright House

By Morgan Halberg

Live in Richard Avedon’s Clifftop Montauk Beach Home For $495,000 This Summer

By Morgan Halberg

2018’s Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate

By Margaret Daisley and Alison Rogers
The acclaimed architect passed away in 2016.

Late Architect Zaha Hadid’s Miami Home Has Been Sold at a Big Discount

By Morgan Halberg
Late renowned architect Zaha Hadid bought the main apartment in 2010.

Zaha Hadid’s South Beach Condo Is Back

By Morgan Halberg
Site Santa Fe.

SITE Santa Fe Unveils Its Newly Expanded Starchitect-Designed Space

By Margaret Carrigan
Plans for the third floor double-height gallery.

Studio Museum Unveils Plans for New Building to Mark 50th Anniversary

By Margaret Carrigan
A Kusama display and wax figure at a Louis Vuitton store in Hong Kong. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)

Yayoi Kusama Museum to Open in Tokyo

By Alanna Martinez
Out East jacket Image

Take a Peek Inside the Luxe Homes and Lavish Gardens of the Hamptons Elite

By Kaitlyn Flannagan
Can technology free elevators from their up-down cages?

Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities

By Antony Wood and Dario Trabucco
French businessman Francois Pinault tours the former stock exchange building within the presentation of the project for the future museum of the Pinault Foundation, on June 26, 2017 in Paris. A concrete cylinder inserted in a classic arcaded rotunda: Japanese architect Tadao Ando on June 26 presented his plan to transform the former stock exchange building in Les Halles district of Paris into a new museum of the Pinault Foundation whose opening is scheduled for early 2019.

François Pinault to Turn Former Paris Stock Exchange Into New Museum

By Alanna Martinez
On the left, Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Manifestation of the Peak’ (1834); on the right, Wright’s rendering of the Huntington Hartford Resort project (1947).

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Japanese Education

By Kevin Nute
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