What’s in a (Firm’s) Name? Thinking About Succession and Legacy
One bright morning this past March, exactly 10 years after the unexpected death of Zaha Hadid, guests gathered for the unveiling of a stone-carved signpost…
Design Vanguard 2025: Almost Studio
Pinned to fiberboard walls are black-and-white photographs of such architectural curios as Frank Furness’s über-Victorian Provident Life & Trust Co. building, McKim, Mead & White’s…
Design Vanguard 2025: Sala Hars
The founders of Sala Hars like to joke that their base in Mexico City is a natural midpoint between their hometowns—though it is hardly convenient…
Thought Partner: AI and Design
Jonah Hawk grew up surrounded by architects but never became one himself. Instead, his interest in technology steered him, in the early 1990s, to learn…
Design Vanguard 2025: Felipe Alarcón
✕ In February 2010, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck barely 60 miles from the architect Felipe Alarcón’s childhood home in Linares, a small city in Chile’s…
Design Vanguard 2025: Ben Pennell
✕ Ben Pennell is reaching for the future of architecture with dirt-caked hands. He has built and financed many of his projects, either alone or…
High Anxiety: Planning in Uncertain Times
Entrepreneurial enterprises come with challenges. Architectural practices are no exception, with adversity likely to ramp up. What looked like a difficult 2025 in January has…
Sealing the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions
For better or for worse, many architects see the profession as a calling, not a job. “They often don’t want to think about their practices…
Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms of 2025
✕ Unlike the weather, fashion, and the price of gas, the upper ranks of RECORD’s annual Top 300 American architecture firms by revenue list aren’t…
No Contest: Architectural Competitions | Architectural Record
“We’ve done 170 competitions so far, and won 38, about half of which have actually gotten built,” says architect Steven Holl of his participation in…
