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Poland’s New Building Is Timeless From All Angles

The Dutch design firm MVRDV, known for heady ideas on architecture and urbanism, unveils a new...

Architecture
A Modernist Icon Houses Harvard Fellows

Six Harvard GSD fellows will spend three months living and studying inside architect Richard...

Architecture
Francis Kere’s High-Design Treehouse in London

For this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the architect finds inspiration in his West African...

Architecture
Long Island’s Coliseum Receives a Face-Lift

SHoP Architects uses more than 4,000 aluminum fins to redesign the Nassau Veterans Memorial...

Architecture
Buffalo, New York, Is Staging a Comeback

The city’s dynamic architectural past is fueling its transformation.

Architecture
Eero Saarinen’s Bell Labs Comes Back to Life

Architect Alexander Gorlin quietly transforms the landmark complex in New Jersey.

Architecture
Notables in Design and Architecture Celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th Birthday

We invited a handful of connoisseurs to share their favorite Wright project with us.

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Architecture
Inside Milan’s Most Sumptuous Entryways

An eccentric new book from Taschen
showcases a captivating selection of the
Italian...

Architecture
Renzo Piano’s Beacon of Hope

Victoria Newhouse’s new book about the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens...

Architecture
Jeanne Gang: Organic Growth

Architect Jeanne Gang takes her hybrid of engineering and ecology to new heights.

IN REMEMBRANCE
I. M. Pei, 2017-2019

To celebrate the legendary Chinese-American architect's illustrious life and career, Surface asked...

Architecture
Feeling Sad? Blame the Building

In her new book, architecture critic Sarah Goldhagen sets out to quantify how the built environment

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Peter Marino’s Garden is a Living Fantasy

There are new discoveries at every turn on the lush grounds surrounding the architect’s...

Urban Space
Planet Earth’s Concrete Jungles

Director and producer Fredi Devas answers our questions about Planet Earth II’s...