Based in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood, husband-and-wife partners Nicholas and Deirdre McDermott founded their firm “on the belief that the future provides us with opportunity to constantly improve on the past.”

Founded in 2016 by Zhou Suning, Tang Tao, and Wu Ziye, the Nanjing-based practice got its start in rural China, where government investment aims to revitalize areas that have long suffered from lagging economic development and depopulation. 

For the fourth consecutive year, Gensler, Perkins&Will, and HDR remained fixed at the highest positions on Architectural Record’s annual ranking of the Top 300 American architecture firms by revenue.

This month's special section examines timber construction, including strategies for sustainable sourcing, policies facilitating the material’s use, and engineering innovations accommodating unexpected typologies and unique locations.

Architects grapple with the carbon impacts and benefits of building with wood.

Stumptown's mass-timber airport terminal prepares for takeoff.

European countries and cities have a slew of initiatives underway to incentivize building with wood. However, major obstacles persist.

The Sierra Institute and atelierjones propose the use of fire-hardened, cross-laminated timber to replace the nearly 600 Greenville homes destroyed by California's Dixie Wildfire in 2021.

The carmaker gears up to showcase its brand with a sculptural, glass-enclosed structure topped with a cantilevered, timber-framed roof.

An outdated modernist office building is spruced up for the 21st century.