architecture

An architect’s client is not just a customer, not quite a colleague. Theirs is a curious collaboration, one gracefully navigated by the head of GLUCK+, Thomas Gluck and the executive director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, Charlie Ortiz, and they’ve got a fine new building to show for it.

Celebrating 50 years in operation, Historic Albany Foundation is a private not-for-profit membership-based organization that works to preserve and protect buildings with architectural, historic, or civic value. The foundation will be holding their 50th Anniversary Gala on May 18.

Some architects want their buildings to endure unchanged forever, but partners Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi welcome eventual repurposing. “Hopefully, our La Brea Museum, 100 years from now, will be appropriated by somebody else.” Weiss and Manfredi talk to us about Romaldo Giurgola, La Brea Tar Pits and a Roman paving stonean.

Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.

Historic Albany Foundation, the Center Square Association, and the Hudson / Park Neighborhood Association will be presenting the 2022 Stoop Stroll this Saturday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In past years during the month of June, these three organizations have hosted the Hidden City House and Garden Tour in Albany’s downtown’s historic neighborhoods. They are replicating last year’s successful event – a day long Stoop Stroll through Center Square and Hudson/Park, which are renowned for their distinctive stoops and facades. We welcome longtime President of the Center Square Association Jackie Ring and Judy Stacey - who served as Albany City Gardner for over 30 years.

Each year the Center Square Association, Historic Albany Foundation and Hudson/Park Neighborhood Association present the Hidden City House & Garden Tour…

This week on Person Place Thing, Architect Moshe Safdie created buildings from Montreal (Habitat 67) to Singapore (Jewel Changi Airport), but Jerusalem --…

“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature” is a new exhibition on view at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York.…

On Wednesday, May 15, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger will talk with Oblong Book and Music's Dick Hermans about "Ballpark:…

Kem Weber, a well-known mid-century architect, was part of the distinctive West Coast modernism movement that helped shaped the relaxed California…