News

The Journal's architecture news desk follows what changes the built world each week: the buildings that open, the designs that are unveiled, the studios that win or lose a commission, and the policy decisions that decide what can be built where. Every story is reported from the original sources — the architect, the client, the city or the award body — and from the critics and newspapers who have visited, and every one links to them so you can read further.

This is architecture news with an architect's eye. Alongside the facts — who designed it, where, how big, when it opens — each story asks what the building is actually doing: how it meets the street, how light enters its rooms, what it is made of, and whether it earns its place in its city. When a project is still a rendering, we say so; when the numbers come from the developer, we say that too.

Expect the new buildings of 2026 and the museum openings that define the year, from Los Angeles to Basel; landmark transformations of existing buildings; and the people and practices behind them. Because the Journal is written from Los Angeles, the city's own projects — its museums, its housing, its arguments over density — get closer attention.

Start with the stories below, then follow a thread: competitions and awards for the profession's verdicts, new design for projects still on the drawing board, and case studies for the long read on a single building. The latest architecture news is always at the top of the Journal's front page.