25 years on, some regrets.

The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.

Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.

He was, in the very best way, the Ralph Lauren of architects.

The French fashion designer has brought his vision to Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, and Jean Paul Gaultier. Now he has a new challenge: renovating a Frank Lloyd Wright–worthy manor in West Hollywood.

Eugene Kohn, an architect who co-founded the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in 1976 and whose ambitions led it to become, within a few years, a rival to long-established international architectural firms and one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers…

SUPERTALL: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives The unrelenting construction of bigger and bigger skyscrapers in New York City is “shutting out the light of the heavens and circumscribing the air of the streets,”…

Alexander Garvin, a city planner, architect and author who directed the planning for the former World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks and developed the vision for a 2012 Olympics proposal in New York, died on Friday at…

Gerald D. Hines, a soft-spoken engineer who started out as a builder of small, anonymous warehouses in Houston and went on to transform the business of commercial real estate development by hiring blue-chip architects to build commercial skyscrapers…

Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, an architect who grew up on a grand classical estate in Virginia before becoming one of New York’s most prominent and impassioned advocates of urban design, died on Saturday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 87. The…

Cesar Pelli, who designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92. His son Rafael confirmed the death. Mr. Pelli’s works included the cluster of towers making up the World Financial Center…

I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. His death was confirmed by his…

Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born American architect whose modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world, died on Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 96. His…

Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century Illustrated. 508 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $35. You want to begin a review of “The Man in the Glass House,” Mark Lamster’s stimulating and lively new biography of Philip Johnson, by saying something…

In California, marijuana is legal, but people with weed-related convictions still struggle to find work. Lowell Herb Co. invites them to apply.

There are a number of reasons why movie directors do not generally go around establishing museums. It is not only because most of them do not own enough artworks to put into them or have enough money to start new careers as philanthropists. If you…

It is always the year of Frank Lloyd Wright, so monumentally does he loom over American architecture. But if Wright is a constant presence in architectural discourse, he is getting even more attention than usual this year, because June 8 marks the…

Plan a night at the movies to see Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a rousing documentary about journalist-activist Jane Jacobs and her fight in the 1960s against Robert Moses, New York’s tsar of urban development, which opens April 21. Selected for…

Installation-art pioneer Robert Irwin had to cancel, but expat British realist David Hockney turned up at the last minute. He was among the three score artists who gathered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art one evening at dusk this fall for a…

Diller and von Furstenberg first encountered Heatherwick’s work at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, where they, like millions of people, were astounded by his design for the U.K. Pavilion, a shimmering cube of a building whose surface was covered…