Articles by Ben Dreith

Chicago architecture studio Jahn has used massive steel trusses and a glass envelope for a military archive building with a structure informed by amphibious landing vehicles. The Pritzker Military Archives Center is a facility for the storage, preservation and exhibition of documents and artefacts from participants in the US military, especially from the two world

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Architect Iñaki Echeverria has completed the first phases of an eco-park three times the size of Manhattan in Mexico City, using some of the infrastructure of the cancelled Foster + Partners-designed airport. Named the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, the project entailed the regeneration and building of public infrastructure on a massive wetland environment on the

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Architectural sites with significance to African American culture have received funds as part of Conserving Black Modernism, a national grant program that highlights “undervalued” contributions of Black architects in the United States. Among the featured projects are a dormitory complex in Mississippi and a mosque in Washington DC. The Conserving Black Modernism program is a

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