In our new weekly series of Newsmaker interviews, we speak with people making headlines in the architecture world. New this week: a conversation with Kyu Sung Woo. He recently became the first architect to win Korea’s Ho-Am Prize for the arts.

Working with "Millennials"— young people who were born after 1980— can be either frustrating or exhilarating. This month's Practice Matters discusses how Gensler and Perkins+Will are embracing the challenges and opportunities that come from developing the future leaders of our profession.

We spotlight four standout projects including an iceberg-like opera house by Snøhetta, a fabric-wrapped concert hall by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, a sanctum-oriented synagogue by Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, and a boldly sculptural graduate study center by José Cruz Ovalle and Partners.

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Design professionals are taking up the challenge to insure patient well-being inside health care facilities. This month’s technology section examines recent projects that use new strategies to improve indoor air quality. We also look at a new entrance canopy at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Whether they're at street level or underground, public spaces are transformed by lighting design. These illuminating projects lend as much poetry to gathering places, pedestrian conduits, and cultural facilities as they do darkness-smashing functionality.

This month’s products include a wealth of lighting selections—from a look at this year’s Lightfair to our pick of new lighting products—as well as a roundup of moisture control products. We are also accepting submissions for this year’s Product Reports feature through September 5.

They call themselves wHY (Workshop Hakomori Yantrasast), but clients are clamoring for this young Los Angeles-based firm's architectural answer. Also attracting attention is Chicago-based Spirit of Space, two young architects who are making evocative films for their peers.

Join us October 7-8 for Architectural Record’s sixth annual Innovation Conference, where we will study net zero-energy buildings, one of the most important strategies for securing a sustainable future.

Our roundup of residential projects aims to find out what happens when architects become their own clients. We look at four houses on vastly different sites that architects have designed to meet their specific living and working needs.

RECORD presents our annual list of the best new kitchen and bath designs. Many of our selections bend the “rules” with an ingenious twist of spatial relationships and/or use of materials.

Our quarterly roundup of notable interiors includes a 1902 town house rethought by Christoff:Finio Architecture, a new home for New York University’s Philosophy Department by Steven Holl, and a Roman and Williams revamp of the Royalton Hotel’s Philippe Starck-designed lobby.

Given the growing concern about sustainability, it’s a good time to look back to the originating seeds of green, to the anarchic 1960s and Bucky Fuller’s philosophy of doing more with less.

Who’s to blame when a building designed by a famous architect has exterior walls that are rotting? Robert Campbell does some sleuthing to find out.

RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography.

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