Philip Johnson, the innovative architect who promoted the “glass box” skyscraper and then smashed the mold with daringly nostalgic post-modernist designs, has died. He was 98. Johnson died Tuesday ...

D.C. developers have spent years churning out homogeneous office buildings, maximizing the height under the city's zoning limit and creating all-glass exteriors to bring in light, but the latest ...

Anyone who imagines that modernist houses across the United States are a homogeneous collection of sleek glass boxes may want to look again. At its best, modernism has always meant to commune with the ...

Tennessee is well-known for its lush rolling landscapes, less so for its urban skylines. That reputation is changing in Nashville, the state's most rapidly growing city by far, as downtown developers ...

“Yeah, this is going to be another big, ugly glass box. You want to make something out of it?” With that line, the artist Barney Tobey mocked the monotony of office buildings in a 1965 New Yorker ...