The Architect's Newspaper July/August 2026
The Great American State Fair, Donaldson + Partners’s Raising Cane’s, and more page 6
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AN drops by Boston to get the latest from historic firm Shepley Bulfinch page 14
A visit to Dig World, a construction-themed amusement park in Katy, Texas page 79
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Beach-worthy new releases in nonfiction, architecture, and fiction page 80
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8 Open: Hotels 74 Marketplace 77 Happenings 81 Review: Erasure by Design 82 Pictorial: All About U.S.
Remembering Lorcan O’Herlihy
At the U.S.’s semiquincentennial, architects, educators, writers, and photographers weigh in on where we’re headed. Read on page 18.
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Fifty Years of KPF
Haystack Turns 75
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is an architect’s architecture firm. Name a professional milestone, and the firm is all but guaranteed to have reached or surpassed it: designing high-rise offices for some of America’s most prominent corporations, including Procter & Gamble’s headquarters in Cincinnati and the BNY Mellon Center in Philadelphia; shaping large-scale multiuse urban environments, most notably the Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan; and maintaining a major international presence, stretching from Shanghai’s Jinling Road to London’s East End. Over the last five decades, the roughly 650 team members of KPF’s worldwide operation—spread out across eight offices on three continents—seem to have done it all. Yet in its 50th-anniversary year, the New York–based outfit is still intent on doing more, showing the world how cities get built. The firm was founded in 1976 by Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen, and Sheldon Fox, WILLIAM JESS L AIRD who had met working continued on page 10
The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has been described as something like a craft utopia. Located on an island 50 miles south of Bangor, Maine, its Edward Larrabee Barnes– designed campus alights a hillside with a grand staircase connecting pinewood decks and the buildings on top of them. Students— who attend two-week-long workshops on weaving, ceramics, and woodworking—make art outside, sleep in Spartan dorms, meet for communal meals in the cafeteria, and hike in the surrounding forest. The school does, in fact, have an idealistic mission: to connect people through craft. “Even as new ideas, new concepts, new tools, and new technologies are introduced, we live, especially in craft, in a continuum of all of the artists who have come before us,” Perry Price, Haystack’s executive director, told AN. “A lot of the ideas and things that we are using and making represent some of the oldest material science that humans have.” continued on page 12
Lorcan O’Herlihy died on June 14, 2026, at age 66. His death was confirmed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA), the architecture office he founded in 1994. The cause of death was glioblastoma. O’Herlihy always had a stylish, independent streak. From his earliest days in architecture, he exuded an artistic energy as well as a certain raffish charm in his interactions with the culture and practice of the field. It is indicative of O’Herlihy’s character that he took time out from his normative professional development in the mid-1980s to dedicate himself for a period to painting. It was surely at the Holl office that he subsequently encountered a plausible model for the kind of architect he wished to be: creative, critical, and sometimes a little restless. Lorcan O’Herlihy was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1959. His father, Dan, had trained as an architect at University College Dublin before quickly continued on page 13
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SPATIAL LITERACY The Miller Hull Partnership completes a new central library for Bend, Oregon. Read on page 28.
Glass & Openings
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