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On Japan’s Awaji Island, Shigeru Ban Designs a Wellness Retreat Sited Between Forest and Sea
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (155+ words) The Pasona Natureverse Retreat’s guest rooms either look out to forest or to sea. Indeed, the Pasona prioritizes architectural integrity and contextual sensitivity over commercial yield. Clear in its organization, restrained in expression, and attentive to its setting, the Pasona…...
Architect and Historian Robin Middleton, 94, Has Died
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (163+ words) Architect and historian Robin Middleton died on Monday, August 3, just a few weeks shy of his 95th birthday. A Festschrift, Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, Essays Presented to Robin Middleton, edited by Bergdoll and Swiss historian Werner Oechslin, was published in…...
Practicing Timelessness: CMU, Desert Modernism, and the Discipline of Duration
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (614+ words) The Concrete Masonry Checkoff is an industry-funded program driving innovation, education, and market growth for concrete masonry. It powers the Beauty of Block campaign. Concrete masonry’s inherent beauty and thermal performance make it ideally suited as the structural walls and…...
In Boston, Marlon Blackwell Architects’ Atlas Hotel Joins a Nascent Urban District on Harvard-Owned Land
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (211+ words) The Atlas hotel in Boston. The residential feel continues in the guest rooms, with softened forms and finishes that include white oak case goods featuring rounded corners, curvaceous leather chaises longues, and plush berber-style carpeting in sleeping areas. All in…...
Los Angeles–Based Architectural Historian and Educator Thomas Hines Dies at 89
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (722+ words) Architectural Record Los Angeles–Based Architectural Historian and Educator Thomas Hines Dies at 89 Thomas Spight Hines, Jr., the dean of modern Los Angeles architectural historians and professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, died at the…...
An Onion-Shaped Music Hall Designed by Patrick Bouchain and PCA-Stream Rises in a French Spa Town
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (61+ words) La Source Vive’s hall combines vineyard and shoebox seating arrangements. Images © PCA-Stream; click to enlarge Andrew Ayers is a Paris-based writer, translator, and educator. Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU Explore how phase change material ceiling systems can…...
A New Biography Chronicles the Life and Career of a Groundbreaking Black Architect and Advocate
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (98+ words) Rendering created by the Max Bond-led ARCH to depict Eighth Avenue and 125th Street in 1968 plans for West Harlem and the East Harlem Triangle, respectively. Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect, by Brian D. Goldstein. Princeton University…...
RECORD’s Primer on U.S. Presidential Libraries
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (98+ words) George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Renderings of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. Images courtesy Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation. I.M. Pei & Partners (now Pei Cobb Freed & Partners), 1964–79; addition, 1991Boston Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), 1966–71Austin, Texas Jickling, Lyman & Powell Associates, 1979–81Ann Arbor, Michigan Hellmuth,…...
The Hidden Design Elements Behind Exceptional Guest Experiences
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (569+ words) For almost 40 years, Rulon International has shaped how spaces sound and feel. Our custom acoustical wood ceilings and walls, made in Saint Augustine, FL, are built for designers with vision. Noise is consistently one of the top three sources of…...
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Honors a Conservationist
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (1166+ words) Architectural Record The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Honors a Conservationist America's vast landscapes captivated Theodore Roosevelt long before he became president, but none more so than the towering buttes, scoria hills, and prairies of the Dakota Territory. Beginning in 1883, the…...