James S. Russell

Next week on May 29 the Pritzker Prize will be awarded to Toyo Ito, of Tokyo, who will receive his bronze medal and $100,000 in a formal ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

New York’s grimy Madison Square Garden has been an eyesore for all of its 50 years and hope has never died that one day the wrecking ball will swing.

The Quadra Island home of philanthropists Eric Peterson and Christina Munck is perched on a volcanic outcropping like an elongated periscope -- a sleek apparatus for viewing this tumultuous landscape 100 miles north of the Canadian city of Vancouver.

Google Inc. has begun construction of a new 1.1-million-square-foot headquarters that is just minutes by bicycle from its current Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

I found myself recently in the ballroom of a Catholic Youth Organization building on Staten Island. There was a lot of anger in the air.

Students at Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school consider the value of food scraps and the environmental impact of hair dryers.

Toyo Ito, an architect who uses bravura engineering to achieve effortless-looking lyricism, was yesterday named the 2013 laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.

With its layered limestone brick and silvery glass, the $114 million Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts soars above the University of Chicago in a haunted take on campus-Gothic grandeur.

The base of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s undulating roof has broken stone slabs and concrete shafts. They might be ancient bones bleached by the sun.

Here’s a startling fact: About 33 percent of New Yorkers live alone. So why doesn’t the housing market cater to them?

Standing in a space scarcely larger than a dining room, I stared into the profoundly sad eyes of a 16th-century merchant painted by Hans Holbein.

The office tower proposed for 425 Park Avenue by the London architecture firm Foster & Partners injects some desperately needed life into the Manhattan commercial high-rise.