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Milan Design Week 2026 and Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Cathedral Precinct in Sydney: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000

As major cultural events, institutional transformations, and new architectural commissions unfold across different geographies, this week's discourse highlights how architecture operates at the intersection of public life, creativity, and long-term adaptation. With Milan Design Week 2026 foregrounding process, experimentation, and citywide participation, the projects and initiatives emerging this week point to a broader shift toward openness, accessibility, and experiential engagement across disciplines and urban contexts. Ongoing investments in cultural infrastructure, from new museums to large-scale renovations and competition-winning proposals, further underscore how institutions continue to recalibrate their spatial and social roles in response to evolving environmental, technological, and cultural demands.

“Coming Together” Exhibition in Washington Explores Post-Pandemic Transformations of Community and Public Spaces

Antonia Piñeiro — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:30:00 +0000

The exhibition Coming Together: Reimagining America's Downtowns, held at Washington, D.C.'s National Building Museum, explores the transformations underway in the United States' downtowns and the ways communities have organized to shape alternative urban scenarios. Curated by Uwe S. Brandes, Professor at Georgetown University, and designed by Reddymade and MGMT., it is the first of three major exhibitions within the Museum's Future Cities initiative, an interdisciplinary project examining the city as a hub, catalyst, essential building block, and reflection of society. Coming Together features examples from more than 60 U.S. cities, both large and small, highlighting lessons learned and opportunities embraced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as communities adapt to lasting changes in work, housing, mobility, entertainment, and recreation. The exhibition is currently open to the public and will remain on view through Fall 2026.

Former MoMA Curator Barry Bergdoll Receives the 2025 Vincent Scully Prize

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The Vincent Scully Prize, established in 1999 by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., recognizes exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. Named after its first recipient, Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, the prize has been awarded to figures such as Theaster Gates, Jane Jacobs, Laurie Olin, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, and Mabel O. Wilson. The 2025 prize will go to Barry Bergdoll, art historian and former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Walter Hood Receives the 2024 Vincent Scully Prize for Landscape Design Excellence

Nour Fakharany — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. has just announced Walter Hood as the 26th recipient of the prestigious Vincent Scully Prize. Walter Hood is a celebrated landscape designer working in public spaces and urban environments. Established in 1999, this award honors outstanding contributions in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design through practice, scholarship, or criticism. Hood now joins the ranks of past notable winners like Theaster Gates, Dolores Hayden, and Mabel O. Wilson.

"Capital Brutalism" Exhibition Explores Washington D.C's Architectural Legacy in United States

Nour Fakharany — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 05:30:00 +0000

Brutalist buildings are a significant component of Washington, D.C.’s architectural identity. In the National Building Museum’s new exhibition, Capital Brutalism, this identity is explored further. Co-organized with the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), Capital Brutalism is a comprehensive exhibition of Brutalist architecture in Washington, D.C., to date, running until February 17th, 2025.

Theaster Gates Receives the 2023 Vincent Scully Prize

Nour Fakharany — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 05:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum announced that Theaster Gates will be the 25th recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize. Initiated in 1999, the award serves as a recognition of excellence in the fields of design, architecture, historic preservation, urban design, encompassing practice, and criticism. Theaster Gates is an artist internationally renowned for his interdisciplinary blend of social performance, urban regeneration, and cultural activations.

Urban Historian and Architect Dolores Hayden is Honored with the Vincent Scully Prize

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has announced that Dolores Hayden, professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University, is this year’s recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize. As an urban historian and architect, Dolores Hayden has focused throughout her career on the politics of place and the stereotypes of gender and race embedded in American-built environments. As the 24^th recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize, Dolores Hayden joins esteemed past recipients, including Mabel O. Wilson, Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Campbell, and Inga Saffron.

Rockwell Group's LAB Creates a "Lawn" for the National Building Museum

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 05:00:00 +0000

The LAB at Rockwell Group has partnered with The National Building Museum to present the 2019 Summer Block Party installation LAWN. Designed to be an immersive installation taking up the entirety of the Museum’s Great Hall, the project presents a series of interactive experiences for all ages. The lawn itself is programmed with summer entertainment and activities, including movie nights, yoga, and meditation. By creating custom software, the LAB also developed an Augmented Reality game alongside the installation.

Rockwell Group's "Lawn" to Open at the National Building Museum this Summer

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 02 May 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The LAB at Rockwell Group has partnered with The National Building Museum to present the 2019 Summer Block Party installation Lawn. Designed to be an immersive installation taking up the entirety of the Museum’s Great Hall, the project will present interactive experiences for all ages. The lawn itself will be programmed and activated throughout the day with summer entertainment and activities, including movie nights, yoga, and meditation. By creating custom software, the LAB has also developed an Augmented Reality game alongside the installation.

National Building Museum Honors Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell with Vincent Scully Prize

Eric Baldwin — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:40:00 +0000

The National Building Museum has announced critics Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell as the recipients of the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize. The award celebrates the pair's thoughtful, insightful, and clear journalistic observations and criticisms of the built environment. Both Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, the two are honored by the Museum for their ability to reveal how smart architecture criticism can raise the consciousness and expectations for the built environment.

Snarkitecture's "Fun House" Opens at the National Building Museum in Washington DC

Niall Patrick Walsh — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Snarkitecture’s “Fun House” has opened at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, an interactive exhibition forming part of the museum’s Summer Block Party series of temporary structures created inside its historic Great Hall.

A Tale of Misplaced Trust in News Media Wins 2018 Fairy Tales Competition

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:20:00 +0000

Blank Space, in collaboration with The National Building Museum, has announced winners of their fifth annual Fairy Tales competition, unveiled in front of a live audience at the Washington D.C. National Building Museum. The competition saw submissions from 65 countries, with 3 prize winners, a runner-up, and 9 honorable mentions chosen for their exploration of current events and the creative process through well-crafted short stories and artwork. The winners were chosen by a jury of 20 leading architects, including Daniel Libeskind, Bjarke Ingels, and Maria Aiolova.

Studio Gang's "Hive" Opens at the National Building Museum

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:10:00 +0000

Hive, Studio Gang’s 2017 Summer Block Party installation, has opened to the public at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Constructed from 2,551 silver-and-magenta wound paper tubes, Hive invites visitors to explore their senses in a series of dome-shaped chambers, each scaled to reflect a unique sound signature.

Studio Gang to Construct "Hive" for the National Building Museum's Summer Block Party

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:10:00 +0000

Previously home to a beach-like ball pit, a giant maze, and sea of icebergs, this summer the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. will host the “Hive,” a 60-foot-tall domed structure made up of more than 2,700 individual paper tubes. Designed by Studio Gang, the installation is part of the museum’s Summer Block Party series, which invites architects to fill the building’s historic Great Hall with a temporary, immersive intervention.

The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin

Rene Submissions — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:50:00 +0000

A traveling photographic exhibition about the life and work of influential Modernist landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). Organized on the 100th anniversary of the year of his birth, the exhibition, organized and curated by The Cultural Landscape Foundation in collaboration with the National Building Museum, is accompanied by a comprehensive website and full color, 92-page gallery guide.

12 Dollhouses That Trace 300 Years of British Domesticity

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:45:00 +0000

As part of a new exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., twelve dollhouses tracing the history of British domesticity have been lent by London's Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood. The show—Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse—spans 300 years and presents a miniature-sized, up-close-and-personal view of developments in architecture and design – from lavish country mansions, to an urban high-rise.

Small Stories: 24 Architects, Artists and Designs Model Their Dream Houses in Miniature

AD Editorial Team — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:30:00 +0000

As part of a new exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., a group of 24 American architects, designers and architects have been commissioned to create "dream homes" in the format of the contemporary dollhouse. Part of Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse, in which twelve historical dollhouses spanning the past 300 years from London's Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood are being presented in the United States for the first time, these 21st Century interpretations intend to showcase a "diverse array of perspectives, demonstrating the limitless creativity of building in miniature."

Studio Gang Selected to Design Next Iteration of National Building Museum's Summer Block Party

Sabrina Santos — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:00:00 +0000

Studio Gang has been selected to design next year’s installation of the Summer Block Party at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The temporary exhibition will be the latest in the Museum’s annual series, after this year’s ICEBERGS by James Corner Field Operations, and previous installations like Snarkitecture’s The BEACH in 2015, and Bjarke Ingels Group’s BIG Maze in 2014.