(Photograph courtesy of Jeff Goldberg/Esto) By Nathan Roy, P.E., Shawn Maley, AIA, Sheri Miller, P.E., and Gregory Shreve, P.E., S.E. What happens when buildings reach the end of their functional life? Which spaces are worth preserving, and when is it …

Three historic buildings in downtown Boston were recently nominated for designation as Boston Landmarks: The Gilchrist Building at 431–439 Washington Street is significant as one of three Boston-based department store chains—along with Filene’s and Jordan …

It stands to reason that residents should expect both pluses and minuses from Austin’s transformation into a bigger, richer, and more expensive city. For the city’s art community, the downsides of the recent boom have been painfully noted, from the …

When Boston’s controversial Brutalist concrete city hall opened in 1968, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the barren brick plaza in front of it “one of the great urban spaces of the 20th century.” She gushed further: “With the …

Herzog & de Meuron has pulled back the curtain on Sixth & Blanco, a mixed-use infill development encompassing an entire city block in Austin’s historic Clarksville neighborhood, just west of the Texas capital city’s downtown core. The low-slung …

As we continue our deconstructivist series, we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman, which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism." Designed by New York-based …

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Michael McKinnell, whose heroically sculptural and democratically open design for Boston City Hall catalyzed the city’s urban revival in the …