
Chris Bentley
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These three new developments could reshape Harvard Square
On June 1, a few dozen Cambridge, Massachusetts, officials, business leaders, and other key figures in the area gathered around a breakfast spread in Parsnip, a tony neighborhood restaurant owned by the billionaire investor Gerald Chan. They were there to glimpse a long-awaited plan for another one of Chan’s…

Facing rising sea levels and greater insurance risk, Southern Florida braces for relocations, new flood design standards, and more
This article appears in The Architect’s Newspaper’s April 2017 issue, which takes a deep dive into Florida to coincide with the upcoming AIA Conference on Architecture in Orlando (April 27 to 29). We're publishing the issue online as the Conference approaches—click here to see the latest articles to…

Landscape architect Bradley Cantrell on “cyborg ecologies” and new ways to look at nature
In a basement laboratory at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Bradley Cantrell flips a switch, and a river begins to flow. On a table surveilled by movable sensors and a Microsoft Kinect, pulses of water carry bits of colored sand down a model riverbed.

Our studio visit with Somerville, Massachusetts–based Landing Studio
The offices of Landing Studio are cluttered with “industrial fossils,” as principal Marie Law Adams calls them: vials of rock salt, cross-sections of old oak piers, a chunk of slag discovered during the demolition of a jet fuel tank. In between the piles of design books, they form…

Rafael Viñoly unveils his 76-story homage to Chicago’s Sears Tower

Unveiled> JAHN project towers over Chicago’s South Loop

On View> “Streamlines” sculptures and performances stoke climate conversations in southern Indiana

Downtown Cleveland Alliance taps Chicago’s PORT to reinvent a shadowy underpass

On View> The Detroit Design Festival kicks off today

Cincinnati Music Hall renovation to begin next year, for late 2017 reopening
