The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896.
AR Emerging
The journey of an emerging architect is a slow and steady ascent. The October issue features the work of architects recognised in previous editions of the AR Emerging awards, revisiting a radical housing project by Brendeland & Kristoffersen, and new and ongoing work by Anna Heringer and Kashef Chowdhury. This issue also includes the work of the latest cohort to join the Emerging alumni: experiments in rammed earth, rural projects learning from local building types and urgently needed third places. Read the full editorial and issue contents
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United States
On the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, the founding principles it set out feel like a distant dream in today’s diminished democracy. The transformation of the White House and the Obama Presidential Center reveal how architecture reflects and exerts presidential authority. Architects design detention facilities for a state at war with immigrants, while US colonial control over Puerto Rico accelerates its coastal development. The issue revisits Fallingwater and looks toward the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and Tekαkαpimək Contact Station in Maine as projects that offer glimmers of light. Read the full editorial and issue contents
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Industry
Industrial production is in a moment of transformation: the building industry is reckoning with its carbon cost, cities continue to address post-industrial legacies, and landscapes are negotiating architectures of AI. As the shape of industry changes in cities and landscapes, Dieter Rams insists: ‘We must engage ourselves with less, but more useful, more environmentally friendly, more universal, and more fascinating things.’ Read the full editorial and issue contents
