Castles were more than just strongholds. They were unmistakable declarations that, centuries later, continue to captivate us ...

When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men’s room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things. There were buildings of monumental importance and vision, like the Salk ...

Each time we publish the methodology of a Forbes Architecture list, we aim to illustrate it with the historically significant, the iconic. ABOVE: The main dining area and open kitchen of the Big Sur, ...

It stood for 115 years, but the two-story Prairie School-styled home at 102 S. Sergeant Ave. was clawed down Wednesday by an excavator until it lay on the ground in pieces. Mary Anne Phillips, a ...

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who designed modernist, futuristic buildings acclaimed around the world, died suddenly in a Miami hospital Thursday. She was 65. Hadid suffered a heart ...

Charles Gwathmey, 71, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients including director Steven Spielberg, died Aug. 3 in Manhattan. He had cancer. The architect ...

There are only a handful of architects in contemporary history whose names are widely recognized. Think Zaha Hadid, known for her futuristic, sinewy forms that seem to defy structural logic (see, for ...

For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

The late, respected architect Saul Zaik had no client he needed to please when he designed an intimate midcentury house for his family near Northwest Portland’s Forest Park. On a half-acre of wooded ...