This year’s National Building Museum’s Summer Block Party features "Look Here," an exhibition by architect Suchi Reddy, who is the first woman of color to collaborate with the museum for its summer ...

The 2019 Summer Block Party installation at the National Building Museum has been revealed, and the LAB at Rockwell Group will install a faux indoor “lawn” in the great hall of the Washington, D.C., ...

The recurring, yet sometimes overlooked role of the built environment in children’s literature is being showcased in Building Stories, a new long-term exhibit at the National Building Museum in ...

If you were asked to help design (or redesign) D.C., Fairfax, Virginia, or downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, what would you recommend? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re heading to the ...

The National Building Museum's new long-term exhibit, Building Stories, takes visitors inside the pages of beloved children's books for an immersive exploration of architecture, engineering and design ...

Here we are in the year 2016, getting ready to ride in robot cars and eat meat grown in labs, but a skyscraper built out of wood still seems outlandish. Why? Wood is one of the world’s sturdiest and ...

There’s a large blemish on the conference table in Aileen Fuchs’ fourth-floor office in the National Building Museum. “This is our claim to fame here,” says Fuchs, pointing to the scar. “Princess ...

The National Building Museum joins a handful of other museums in D.C. that are reopening to the public. The museum, at 401 F St. NW, will open April 9 after closing 16 months ago, originally for ...