Faith Benter
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America Just Broke Ground on the Largest Private Construction Project in Its History
Micron Technology's $100 billion semiconductor megafab in upstate New York broke ground in January 2026. What gets built there will determine where the world's chips come from for decades.
America Is Building Its First Real High Speed Rail Line Through the Desert With No Government Money
Brightline West is laying the groundwork for a 218-mile Las Vegas to Southern California rail line, entirely privately funded, with trains hitting 200 miles per hour through the Mojave Desert.
Egypt Is Building a Free Heart Hospital at the Foot of the Pyramids and the Design Is Unlike Any Hospital You Have Seen
Foster and Partners is building a 300-bed cardiac hospital in Cairo with views of the Pyramids of Giza, designed entirely around nature, gardens and a lake to speed up patient recovery.
The Unusual Story Behind a Hotel That Gets Demolished Every Year and Has Been Since 1989
Sweden's ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi has been rebuilt from scratch every year since 1989 using blocks of Torne River ice. No two versions have ever been the same.
Oxford Just Opened Its Biggest Building in Decades and It Has the World's First Passivhaus Concert Hall
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre opened to the public on April 25, 2026, uniting seven Oxford humanities faculties under one roof for the first time in the university's history.
The Car Factory That Assembled Citroëns for Decades Is Becoming Europe's Largest Art Museum
Kanal-Centre Pompidou opens in Brussels on November 28, 2026, transforming a 1930s Citroën factory into Europe's largest new museum development, in partnership with Paris's Centre Pompidou.
Los Angeles Spent 20 Years and Demolished Four Buildings to Get This Museum Open
The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA opened April 19, 2026, completing a two-decade transformation of the largest art museum in the western United States, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.
America's Most Prestigious Architecture Award Just Went to a Man Who Builds With Cardboard
Shigeru Ban, the Japanese architect who built a cathedral from cardboard tubes after a New Zealand earthquake, has won the 2026 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
Herzog and de Meuron Are Building a Museum Out of Wood and Memphis Is the Reason Why
The new Memphis Art Museum opens in December 2026 as one of the first major US museums built almost entirely from laminated timber, sourced regionally to honour the city's identity as the Hardwood Capital of the World.
Kinshasa Is Replacing Its Entire Airport and the Roof Was Inspired by a Congolese Basket
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill has unveiled a $570 million terminal for Kinshasa's N'Djili International Airport, with construction now underway and completion targeted for early 2028.