Author name: National Building Museum

Tools and equipment are essential to the work of the architects, engineers, and tradespeople who design and build our world. The National Building Museum’s collections include a variety of tools […]

What information can a CD-R, a newspaper clipping, and a business card tell us about a museum? When they are all part of an accession file, they can give us

Documenting and preserving the history of the built environment means looking beyond finished buildings to the smaller, seemingly inconsequential materials that reveal how they were designed and constructed. When you

New York Fashion Week has arrived, one of the few times of the year when a city of more than 8 million people unifies on one topic: fashion. (Aside from the

What happens to an object after a museum acquires it? Before a new object can find its permanent home in the National Building Museum’s collection, it needs a number, a

Before a building becomes a landmark, it is a construction site, full of excavation, machinery, workers, and plenty of mud and dust. The James Stewart Construction Collection at the National

By Lenny Beaudoin, Executive Managing Director, Global Workplace, Design & Occupancy, CBRE After years of debate about remote work, hybrid schedules, and whether offices even have a future, a different

At first glance, the room looks haunted. The sky outside the window is dark and heavy. The windows glow bright white. The floor seems pale and shining, while the walls

In the mid-twentieth century, the Washington metropolitan area underwent a dramatic transformation, and D.C.-based architect Vlastimil Koubek was at its center. From the 1960s to 1980s, Koubek Architects completely reshaped