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About Tropicario Bogotá Botanic Garden Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, is in the country’s center at 2,600 meters above sea level. The city’s land is known as “The Bogotá Savanna,” a plateau part of the Andes’ eastern mountain range. The town is bounded to the east by a mountain rang…
A classical two-storey colonnade characterises this family home in the South Downs National Park, completed by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects. Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which over…
Henning Larsen is the top choice in the international competition for designing the New Arts Center for Bergen, Norway. Within the western part of Norway, the Grieg Quarter, which pursues both urban life, cultural essence, and natural beauty, places the city of Bergen into a char…
NURSING COLLEGE ASHAKTASHRAM, designed by Neogenesis+Studi0261, is located on the prevailing campus of the Asakta Ashram Trust in Surat. Intended as an extension to the existing building, the nursing college has been envisioned to serve as an active educational institute contribu…
This week on Dezeen, we reported live from this year's Milan design week on the key installations, exhibitions and launches at the world's biggest design event. The Dezeen team provided exclusive previews of products, installations and events taking place across the city through…
After a lifetime of seeking out tiny spaces, she finally found a keeper: a former barbershop in an old mill village in North Carolina.
The site is situated between an alley and a shopping street. Despite the presence of low-rise buildings on the alley side, a 10-story apartment complex is currently under construction on the adjacent lot, while super high-rise condominiums are being erected behind it.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has released early concept designs for The Center for Arts & Innovation project in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm was announced as the winner of an international RFP process to imagine the Center in September of last year. As stated in an anno…
Every December 31 millions of Americans tune into televisions (or camp out all day on the street) to view the ball drop down the vertical face of One Times Square. The post A renovation to One Times Square will add new curtain wall, observation deck, and immersive experiences app…
Borderless view of Kyoto, A Microcosm of Our Time - Facing Shijo Street, where the Gion Festival, one of the three major festivals in Japan, we created a hotel that is set in the pleasant nature of Kyoto while maintaining a distance from the hustle and bustle of the city. The gue…
New London Architecture’s group of 16 shortlisted entries for the 2024 Don’t Move, Improve! competition has been announced for the annual contest's 14th edition. Federico Ortiz, Head of Content at NLA, said: “The Shortlist for Don’t Move, Improve! 2024 is an extraordinary showcas…
The list of big-name architects working on Atlanta’s largest development project recently got a little bit longer. Gensler and planning firm SHAPE have joined on for Centennial Yards’s second phase The post Gensler and SHAPE join Atlanta’s Centennial Yards megaproject appeared fi…
In Bentonville, Arkansas, a biker pedals up the eastern facade of an office building. Ledger, was a collaborative effort between local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects, Callaghan Horiuchi, and Mexico City–based The post Ledger—a collaborative effort by Marlon Blackwell, Callag…
If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four calls seeking the best in homebuilding and residential renovations, innovative proposals for the reuse of th…
Milan Design Week’s Salone del Mobile is set to conclude on Sunday, after a week which has seen the unveiling of a wide range of furnishing products. “It is here that prototypes and innovations in terms of furnishings, domestic spaces, and lifestyles are presented: bedrooms, livi…
The client, a bachelor, found that his existing house, located on a bluff overlooking Amagansett Beach, did not provide enough space for entertaining his many friends and family for the summer. The existing pool deck provides stunning panoramic views of the ocean, so capitalizing…
This month, the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) is opening its new Loop as Lab: Reshaping Downtowns exhibition aimed at demonstrating how the city’s famed business district can become a model for other cities in their lingering rebound from the economic ill effects of the COVID…
The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley has opened an exhibition on the BART’s architectural history. Titled Along the Line: Designing and Planning BART, 1963-1976, the show features the work of architects, landscape architects, and planners involved in the system’s in…
San Francisco-based Malcolm Davis Architecture (MDa) has completed a rural timber home addition in Northern California Wine Country. Titled Wine Country Barn, the scheme is described by its designers as “a testament to modern architecture’s ability to blend harmoniously with natu…
Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled renderings of its concept for a three-storey cultural centre in south Florida, USA. Located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts & Innovation will contain public event and education spaces and have a capacity o…
Google Maps Introduces New Transit, EV Features Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/19/2024 - 08:00 Primary Image New features on Google Maps will make it easier to find electric car charging stations and public transit information, reports Chris Smith in BGR. As Smith explains, Google Maps wi…
The construction is located in a residential subdivision carved out of a piece of the Landes forest bordering the northwest of the town center of Soorts. The existing timber frame house built in 2016 following the development of the subdivision is located at the highest point of…
Ohio Lawmakers Propose Incentivizing Housing Production Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/19/2024 - 07:00 Primary Image A proposed Ohio state bill would incentivize local governments to support pro-housing policies through an annual grant program, reports Avery Kreemer in Dayton Daily News.…
Chicago Awarded $2M Reconnecting Communities Grant Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/19/2024 - 06:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption The Eisenhower Expressway began construction in 1955. The City of Chicago announced it received a $2 million federal Reconnecting Communities grant aimed a…
This project rehabilitated a decaying industrial building near downtown into the new home for All Saints Church. The building was originally constructed as an auto dealership in the early twentieth century but fell into disrepair over the past several decades.
Financial Literacy as a Tool for Equitable Urban Development Devin Partida Fri, 04/19/2024 - 05:00 Financial literacy refers to understanding and effectively using various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting and investing. Financial literacy is cr…
Architecture studio MD41 has completed a gymnasium for a school in Merate, Italy, housed in a cubic volume clad in textured concrete panels. Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the so…
A dwelling with a tin hat by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year's Don't Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortli…
Located on the riverbank of world heritage the Grand Canal, Xiaohe Park took over the abandoned industrial site of an oil factory and transformed into a multi-use open park for the public.
Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been named on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. The architects are included alongside world leaders, artists and sports stars in the annually published list of people the US magazine judges as th…
A new version of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s Paper Log House is on display at the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.
Throughout various historical civilizations and art movements, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Renaissance and the Bauhaus, the collaboration between art and architecture has been a significant societal expression. However, the 20th-century ideals of modernism and mass prod…
Situated in the town of Tiptur within the Tumkur district, this residence occupies a corner plot measuring 70’x40’ in a relatively new layout, devoid of immediate neighboring structures and architectural context/character. Addressing concerns related to privacy and security, the…
Through “Re/Creation,” Lasvit —a leader in hand-made glassmaking— sets up a sanctuary for creative escapism amid the hustle and bustle of Milan’s Salone Week. In the serene embrace of Palazzo Isimbardi, “Re/Creation” offers a space where minds are free to wander, inspired by the…
From April 25th to May 1st, 2024, in the Spanish city of Logroño, Concéntrico prepares for its 10th anniversary edition. Envisioned as a contemplation of changing urban environments and an opportunity to share insights about these processes, this year’s International Festival of…
The Linden Centre Shaxi Community Campus is nestled in a new national park in Shilong village, along a trail from the historic town of Shaxi in Yunnan, southwest China. It comprises community and cultural facilities, along with small visitor cabins for economic and cultural educa…
Henning Larsen has just won an international competition to design the New Arts Center in Bergen, Norway. Situated in western Norway, the Grieg Quarter aims to blend urbanity, culture, and natural beauty in Bergen. The winning entry proposes to expand the city’s creative and natu…
In June 2023, the planet experienced its hottest month on record. In Iran, the heat index reached a staggering 66.7 degrees Celsius, pushing the boundaries of human endurance. This alarming trend is not an anomaly. It is a stark reminder that temperatures will continue to rise as…
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Located in southern Bandung with a fairly dense residential area, YT House is a residence that emphasizes the owner's desire for privacy. The house, located in the corner of the residential complex, uses trees to maintain the privacy of its owner so that what is visible from the…
This project involves a small restaurant with one particularly unique client request: to create a separate room for their beloved pet dog.
CNN is reporting on the chaotic situation in Dubai as record rainfalls this week have nearly incapacitated the metro, making for some unreal scenes at both its airport and city streets after about 10 inches fell in under 24 hours. Lightning and high winds have also caused damage…
To date, only 30% of the tower has been repainted. Adding more than 100 weekly operations to monitor the lead increased annual running costs from €50m to €92m—and may reach a staggering €130m. The unions have also denounced the state of infrastructure, which sees tourists with ti…
The Tampa Museum of Art was founded in 1920, but it didn’t have a purpose-built space until 90 years later, when its 66,000-square-foot building opened on a prominent downtown site. The post Weiss/Manfredi deploys sensitive yet surgical design thinking when renovating the Tampa M…
Steven Holl Architects turns fifty this month. The globe-spanning operation that first began in California in 1974 and formed in New York three years later has been behind some of contemporary architecture’s most celebrated designs with 79 realized works in 13 U.S. states and 15…
Back in March, Niall Patrick Walsh published a chat with Melodie Yashar Vice President of Building Design & Performance at the construction technologies company ICON. At one point he quips That’s a shame. Destructive testing would make for great TikTok content. Later Melodie ref…
New Park Opens in the Santa Clarita Valley Clement Lau Thu, 04/18/2024 - 12:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption Ribbon-cutting at the new Skyline Ranch Park in Santa Clarita, California. Located in northern Los Angeles County, the City of Santa Clarita has a population of abou…
Perfect Days, directed by Wim Wenders, follows the routine life of Hirayama, played by well-known Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho, who cleans toilets in Tokyo. The film didn’t land its Academy The post Perfect Days elevates the everyday—not unlike Bêka & Lemoine’s Moriyama-San appear…
U.S. Supreme Court: California's Impact Fees May Violate Takings Clause Irvin Dawid Thu, 04/18/2024 - 11:00 Primary Image In a 9-0 court decision on April 12, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that developers and home builders in California may challenge the fees commonly imposed by c…
This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs features 16 architecture and design firms in the greater Los Angeles area currently hiring for Project Managers and Project Architects. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Arc…
Henning Larsen has debuted its plans for the Etobicoke Civic Centre (ECC) in Toronto, a mixed-use design within the city’s redeveloped Etobicoke Civic Centre Precinct that contains government offices and council chambers, child care center, library, public health clinic, recreati…
This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc, an Archinect Partner School SCI-Arc, an Archinect Partner School, is hosting its annual Spring Show exhibition later this month that will feature the work of undergraduate and graduate students from all school programs. The show takes place…
MAD Architects has completed its latest installation for Milan Design Week. Titled ‘Amazing Walk.’ the project marks the seventh time MAD has participated in the event. Image credit: Moreno MaggiImage credit: Moreno MaggiSet within the Cortile della Farmacia courtyard at the Univ…
David Lynch is participating in this year's Salone del Mobile with an installation titled ‘Interiors by David Lynch. Thinking Room’ he designed to offer visitors of the fair a respite while serving tribute to the lurid scenography fans of his classic films Blue Velvet and Lost Hi…
The spirit of mass timber is the ethos of Portland; there’s no better place for this conference than the City of Roses. For the eighth year in a row, the The post The International Mass Timber Conference promotes community through design, manufacturing, and a shared love of craft…
At the Boston Architectural College (BAC) this spring, an exhibition indebted to Shepley Bulfinch opened to the public in the BAC’s McCormick Gallery. The show, entitled A Legacy of Design The post Shepley Bulfinch celebrates 150 years of practice with a new exhibition at the Bos…
Design Concept Of Mountain Dust House The idea behind the design of Mountain Dust House was to blend the house, which represents the individual, with three significant elements: the imposing mountain, the rising sun, and the moon. This concept gave rise to a sacred knot in the fo…
Adaptive reuse refers to the practice of repurposing existing buildings or structures for a different function or use. It involves transforming old or abandoned spaces into new and functional spaces, often with a focus on sustainability and preserving historical elements. This co…
French studio Barrault Pressacco has completed the 102LET house outside Montpellier, mimicking the area's suburban architecture to conceal an interior defined by bright, open spaces. Positioned on a sloping site in the village of Pradez-le-Lez, the single-family home aims to chal…
Arab Design Now and Enzo Mari are among the current design exhibitions taking place across the world featured in Dezeen Events Guide. Other design-related events taking place at the moment include Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design, Christien Meindertsma: Re-formin…
A height variance request for what is set to be the tallest skyscraper in the US located in Oklahoma City has been approved to move forward to the next stage. The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has granted approval of a height increase request for Legends Tower, a proposed sup…
TIME Magazine has named architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum to its list of the world’s '100 Most Influential People of 2024.' The recent RIBA Gold Medalist (Lokko) and Soan Medal winner (Tabassum) were honored by the publication along with artists Jenny Holzer and LaToya…
Rothko lovers: Take note. Shovels broke ground in Houston this week on phase two of the Opening Spaces campus plan, a $42-million, multi-year restoration and expansion of the world famous The post Phase two of the Rothko Chapel’s campus expansion plan by ARO and Nelson Byrd Woltz…
In 1945, Walter Paepcke began buying up property in Aspen, Colorado, with a goal—inspired by the ideology of Walter Gropius—to both preserve the mountain site’s natural beauty and to modernize. The post CCY Architects and Post Company contextualize Aspen modernism for new hotel a…
A large tree lies at the heart of a cedar-clad residence in southern California designed by US studio Brett Farrow Architect, which used various tactics to meld nature into the home's ethos. Located in the beach town of Encinitas, just north of San Diego, the house was designed t…
Archinect is remembering the life and legacy of Ball State University architecture professor Janice Shimizu, who has passed away at the age of 54. Janice won many hearts and minds throughout an estimable career in academia and the professional realm, sentiments that were repeated…
SCI-Arc opened a new exhibition last Friday, curated by Class of 1995 M.Arch graduate Gordon Kipping, that documents the development of mass timber within contemporary architecture. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s 1914–15 Dom-Ino House prototype, Maison de Cartes presents examples bo…
“We were pushing it,” the architect said of the design, which includes a hidden playroom and a soaking tub where you wouldn’t expect it.
In New York this week, Mayor Eric Adams gave details about the latest design for a tentative 62-story skyscraper at 350 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The office tower has The post Foster + Partners unveils latest design for 350 Park Avenue appeared first on The Architect’s Ne…
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Technical Architect - US Government Work at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate…
Japanese practice Makoto Yamaguchi Design has completed a headquarters for a game production company in Tokyo inspired by video game elements. Facing the site of an elevated railway where trains pass on average every 1.5 minutes in both directions, the scheme is defined by slant…
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has created a pavilion from paper tubes, wood and milk crates to mark the 75th anniversary of US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut, USA. Created in collaboration with students from New York university Cooper Union, the 13.5 foot…
About Gigantium Urban Space Our goal was to transform a previously used loading area into a lively plaza, with the objective of extending the sports and cultural activities of Gigantium, which is Aalborg’s prominent sports and cultural center, into an outdoor setting. Our vision…
About Mercado The northern part of Groningen city center is now undergoing a major transformation with the completion of Mercado and the redevelopment of Rode Weeshuisstraat. This urban renewal project places emphasis on pedestrians and encourages social interactions. The archite…
A gridded timber frame creates a flexible armature for play equipment and social spaces at the Erlebnis-Hus visitor centre in Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany, which was designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen. Located alongside a dyke on a coastal promenade in Sankt Peter-Ording, the…
Foster + Partners tops out China’s Merchants Bank skyscraper in Shenzhen In the final phase of the construction of China’s Merchants Bank Skyscraper, designed by Foster + Partners in Shenzhen, it serves as a connecting point to a 68-hectare mixed-use development that would exert…
Archinect has received first photos of Shigeru Ban Architects’ new collaborative installation project with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. A product of this semester’s Building Technology course…
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign, which reimagines boring versions of UK landmarks including The Tower of London and Edinburgh Castle. Creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio used artificial intelligence to demonstrate…
Prospect Cottage on the beach at Dungeness, Kent was a home and sanctuary for the artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. The gardens are world famous, but the interior, shielded from public view by net curtains hung by his partner, Keith Collins, after his death, has been largely un…
Yesterday, the AIA and ASLA New York chapters announced their joint selection of ten projects for this year’s 2024 AIANY + ASLA-NY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards. The annual competition is presented along with program partners from the AIA Austin and ASL…
ODA has revealed plans for a new residential project under construction in Brooklyn that will deliver 336 units of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments. Their design for the Lorimer House and Copper Lofts in East Williamsburg calls for a triangular block-scale development con…
New updates have been shared recently by the Los Angeles Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), charting progress on the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries from Peter Zumthor that is expected to finish construction by the end of this year. According to the museum's most recen…
US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland, USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. Ross Barney Architects created the Aerospace Communications Facility at the NA…
Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs: This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in New York City/Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Tempe, Arizona. For even more opportunities, head over to the…
My friend June Holroyd was an architect who, late in her career, established with her husband and elder son a Hispanic-Mediterranean style centred on Santa Barbara, California, having moved to the US with her family in the 1960s.June, who has died aged 97, met Geoffrey Holroyd wh…
The Henning Larsen-designed World of Volvo has opened in Gothenburg, Sweden. Housed under an expressive timber canopy, the 237,000-square-foot building will serve as an experience center for the car brand Volvo, designed around “Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access…
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has completed work on the 2024 edition of its on-site art program. The acclaimed event is taking place across two weekends: April 12–14 and 19–21. The three artistic works are described by the festival as redefining the boundaries of l…
Spire collapses as fire engulfs Danish landmark, which houses one of country’s most valuable art collectionsFirefighters at Copenhagen’s historic former stock exchange have been battling a huge blaze that has engulfed the 17th-century building’s roof, toppled its distinctive spir…
Zen Space’s Location Zen Spaces is a four-level house located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The house is designed to blend indoor and outdoor spaces seamlessly, and it integrates with the surrounding landscape using various techniques to allow filtered light to permeate each area…
Cyprus International University (CIU) aims to expand its campus and academic offerings. The Cyprus International University is close to the capital city of Nicosia and plans to increase its student population from 17,000 to 24,000 by 2022. To achieve this goal, Arup has been assi…
Traditional materials and building techniques celebrate the essence of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. Telugu Medium is located in the Jubilee Hills neighbourhood and housed in a vaulted structure of expos…
The China Merchants Bank Headquarters by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Shenzhen, with progress on a decorative ribbed steel and glass facade. Images of the skyscraper's construction progress show the height of its structural core and facades made…
A fire has broken out at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange, one of the Danish capital’s most famous buildings, engulfing its spire, which collapsed on to the roof. There were no reports of injuries. The historic building, whose spire is shaped as the tails of four dragons entwined,…
Architects should learn from Italo Rota's desire to constantly learn and evolve his view of architecture, Carlo Ratti writes following the Italian architect's death last week. What is architecture? Every designer has his own definition. For Le Corbusier, it was the skilful, rigor…
A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. The fire at the building, which was once the city's stock exchange, began early this morning with the 56-metre-tall spire collapsing around 8…
As the city of Montreal weighs the future of Roger Taillibert’s iconic 1976 Olympic Stadium design, the group responsible for the custodianship of Olympic Park has announced a new international idea competition to repurpose and reuse surviving components of the existing roof’s de…
HOK has won approvals for its proposed new stadium design at Willets Point, Queens, for the New York City Football Club (NYCFC) MLS franchise. The go-ahead was granted by City Councilors last week as the future anchor to the larger mixed-use Willets Point Phase II Redevelopment P…
The Vessel viewpoint by Thomas Heatherwick is expected to reopen in New York this year, shrouded by steel netting to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. It follows the closure of the structure in Hudson Yards in August 2021, after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth p…
Garage design is an essential part of the planning and construction process. It can be a significant factor in determining whether or not local authorities will approve your project. This article provides some basic information about car parking design and gives you ideas on appr…