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Ecuadorian real estate development company Uribe Schwarzkopf has garnered attention both at home and abroad for its dense (and often superlatively tall) residential properties completed or now under construction in [...] Read More... The post Tatiana Bilbao Estudio reveals a gree…
Quebec architecture firm Bourgeois Lechasseur has included full-height mirrored walls in these secluded cabins to reflect the surrounding forest. The pair of rentable Forest Glamp cabins were completed as part of hospitality concept Réflexion, and are located in Petite-Rivière-…
Bus Lane Plans Continue Retreat in New York City—This Time it's Fifth Avenue James Brasuell Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption The 14th Street Busway could be the beginning and the end of the de Blasio's bus priority ambitions. In June 2020, Mayor Bill de…
I would like to remove Hudson Yards. I don’t even know what I would replace it with. I just feel really angry because it’s a part of the city that turns its back to the city. It’s not even the buildings, or size of the buildings — which are humongous — that bother me. It’s that b…
Good afternoon and welcome back to what is, for most of our U.S. readers, a wet day as the powerful storm system that walloped the West Coast races across the [...] Read More... The post Daily digest: An Arts Alley opens next week in Columbus, the AIA goes to COP26, and more appe…
COVID Vaccination Strategy: What the U.K. and U.S. Could Learn from Israel Irvin Dawid Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:00 Primary Image The U.S., U.K., and Russia lead the world in the daily average of new coronavirus cases, with 70,000, 45,000, and 35,000, respectively, according to The Ne…
Plan Bay Area 2050, Approved Last Week, Makes the Opinion Page James Brasuell Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:00 Primary Image The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments adopted Plan Bay Area 2050 and its accompanying Environmental Impact report o…
TECLA, the world’s first raw earth house constructed using 3D printing, is to be exhibited as one of 17 projects in the Build Better Now virtual exhibition at COP26. As we previously reported, the exhibition will also feature a sustainability-focused 360-degree virtual pavilion d…
Tesla 3 Now the Best-Selling Car in Europe James Brasuell Tue, 10/26/2021 - 09:00 Primary Image Tesla made history in September, breaking new ground for electric vehicles (EVs) in the global automobile market. According to an article by Reuters and published by the U.S. News & Wo…
What COVID Taught About Mobility Justice Diana Ionescu Tue, 10/26/2021 - 08:00 Primary Image Although public buses play key roles in the lives of 'essential workers' and low-income residents, many cities allocate just a small share of overall transit investment to bus lines, opti…
The puck has dropped on the home debut of the NHL’s newest franchise. Seattle’s Kraken professional hockey team is settling into its new digs after the Populous-designed Climate Pledge Arena officially opened on Friday in the Emerald City. The 17,400-seat arena is the risen corps…
Spiking Rents Putting More People at Risk of Eviction Diana Ionescu Tue, 10/26/2021 - 07:00 Primary Image With rents rising steadily in cities around the country, renters teetering on the edge of eviction are increasingly likely to lose their homes and low-income renters have an…
The architectural design of Estúdio Lapinha was conceived to be executed in two stages. The first was the construction of a modular housing inside two containers, exhibited at CASACOR Minas 2021. The second will be completed after its disassembly and reassembly in Lapinha da Serr…
The £235m mega museum of the tormented Norwegian artist stands as an ominous grey tower on the Oslo waterfront, lurching out at the top like a military lookout post, keeping watch over the fjord. It is a location scout’s dream for the ultimate villain’s headquarters, an almost co…
With the goal to open up to its waterfront and develop it for recreational and leisure usage, the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria established the urban strategy of reconnecting Las Canteras beach with the Sanapu dock through a pedestrian bridge.
The Available City Chicago Architecture Biennial Chicago Open through December 18 There wasn’t much to the pavilion: a boxy open framework of green-painted lumber infilled with gauzy white curtains that [...] Read More... The post The 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial ditches it…
It starts from the imagination of the treehouse, where the main idea of being in contact with nature and discovery, allows to stimulate learning from a concept that meets the methodology used in school. Casa da Árvore appears as one of the first moments in which children have con…
A concept for a city in which citizens can access their daily necessities by foot or by bike within 15 minutes has won the Obel Award for 2021. Aptly named the 15-Minute City, the urban planning model was developed by French-Colombian scientist Carlos Moreno to help tackle car h…
Pier 54 in New York has a history that dates back to the city's first inhabitants. After being severely damaged in 2012 with the passage of Hurricane Sandy, Barry Diller and the Hudson River Park Trust institution worked to create solutions to reactivate it and return the space t…
These two houses have been built through a long process of research, design, and experimentation on materials, technology, and program. The binding element of this process was the courage and trust of the client who accepted to be part of a journey of which these two buildings ar…
From creating a new parking structure with an awe-inspiring aesthetic to retrofitting an existing building, architectural wire mesh provides versatility and durability which makes it unique from other design material options.
London-based architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has unveiled its design of a 227-acre distillery master plan in Somerset, Kentucky that aims to become a vibrant destination on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® with commercial and cultural facilities that honor the…
Comprising nearly 19,000 works dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, the DAM’s architecture and design collection encompass one of the most preeminent modern and contemporary design collections of any comprehensive museum in the US, featuring a broad range of desi…
Designed by Warsaw-based architecture practice WXCA and Swiss studio Bellprat Partner, the Polish Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai is a nod to the country's natural landscapes representing an essential part of Polish identity. Through a modular structure enveloped by a kinetic sculpt…
When crossing a space, a body carries within it many meanings. The reading that translates into this person-architecture dialogue, and the sensations that arise from it, demonstrate much of the social inequality and violent structures intrinsic to the Western imagination, which p…
With every household need catered for automatically, the Internet of Things promised us an easy life. Now smart home living can automate our daily lives, but what’s it really like?
Morphosis has joined DesignClass, a growing collection of online classes featuring innovators from architecture, design, and creative leadership. Each class aims to build curious and creative confidence in future generations of creative professionals. Delving into design process,…
What follows this short introduction is my unusually personal interview with a Lebanese-American architect and artist Nishan Kazazian. His work is inspired by numerous sources that come from many directions such as Kintsugi, the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back…
The house in Nils Lauritssøns is located on a narrow plot in a residential area on Berg in Oslo. It is placed in a secluded position, withdrawn from the road. The building has a homogeneous, clear, and precise shape. It follows the rhythm of the neighboring houses in the area wit…
A new Sports Equipment was arranged in an L-shape at the south-eastern corner of the stadium. It opens towards the entrance to the site and the football field and contains the forecourt and landscaped areas.
The fourth edition of the cultural project Reuse Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of the “Lake Chapel”, a small octagonal church on the shores of the lake of Bolsena, and faces the issue of the enhancement of ancient pilgrimage routes, as the…
A pavilion for an office building courtyard in downtown Stockholm. The brief called for an outdoor space that could be used for short breaks, informal gatherings and social events.
Located in the gateway city of Taoyuan, the Central University is endowed with outstanding geographic accessibility. The completion of the multi-functional auditorium as part of a new learning complex, designed by JJP Architects and Planners, fulfills the university’s ambition as…
On October 15, architect Alan Lapidus passed away in his home in Naples, Maine after battling prostate cancer. His legacy is often connected with his architect father, Morris Lapidus, and being Donald Trump's architect. However, after working with his father for many years, he us…
Moore's office commissioned Australia-based Andrew Burges Architects (ABA) to reimagine what Sydney Harbor could look like if there were sections accessible for public swimming. Her proposal mentions that climate change and an increasing population will both change Sydney's makeu…
Joint Venture Acquires Arizona Master Plan Estrella
London’s Hopkins Architects is continuing its streak of ambitious American academic buildings with the groundbreaking of a new hall for the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Data Science on [...] Read More... The post At UVA, the new data science center blends classic look…
Saudi Arabia may be trying to reduce its dependency on oil, but that hasn't stopped the Arabic kingdom from using its petroleum industry as inspiration for a brand new tourist attraction. The Middle Eastern country has announced plans to convert an oil rig into a 150,000 square m…
Bee Breeders has announced the winners of its first annual Modular Home Design Challenge. The contestants had a fairly open-ended prompt to submit designs to the twelve-member jury panel which included modular design luminaries like Ben van Berkel and Chris Precht. The competitio…
An Ole Scheeren-designed luxury condominium development is taking shape in Vancouver, the architect’s first North American residential building and the only one worldwide where he has designed both the interiors and exteriors. Developed by Bosa Properties, in partnership with Ki…
AGC: Construction Employment Growth Lags in Majority of Country
From Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have picked five featured employers with recently listed job openings in New York City, Culver City/Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. Take a look at these positions below,…
HW Studio has created a sunken home in the forests of Morelia, in central Mexico, with a vaulted concrete living room that opens out to the site's lush surroundings. The project, nicknamed The Hill in Front of the Glen, was completed as a family home outside of Morelia, where HW…
Good afternoon and welcome back to the start of another week, the last of October. Time is certainly flying as we head into our third pandemic winter, but hopefully, this [...] Read More... The post Daily digest: Pompidou Center renovations delayed until after the 2024 Olympics,…
Coventry Homes Starts Sales at Escondido in Magnolia, Texas
Huffines Communities Breaks Ground at Solterra MPC in Mesquite, Texas
The winners of the seventh annual AIA Film Challenge have been announced. Four documentaries from around the country with a focus on architecture and the built environment were awarded cash prizes totaling $12,000. Check out the winning entries below and watch all the latest Fil…
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Vin Varavarn Architects has used local materials and construction techniques incorporating bamboo and soil to design an agriculture learning centre in Thailand's Pak Chong District. The PANNAR Sufficiency Economic and Agriculture Learning Centre is located on a formerly arid 14-…
Seventeen sustainable projects, including a timber cultural centre in Sweden, a school built from bamboo and 3D-printed clay homes, will be exhibited in the Build Better Now virtual pavilion during COP26 in Glasgow. The Build Better Now exhibition aims to demonstrate opportuniti…
With 26,700 artworks, this £235m tilting tower is a mighty tribute to the tormented Norwegian artistHow fitting that a building dedicated to the life and work of Edvard Munch may make you want to scream.The £235m mega museum of the tormented Norwegian artist stands as an ominous…
Discovery of foundations of ‘industrial scale’ medieval tannery at abbey has astonished expertsIt is Britain’s biggest and most famous monastic ruin and one that conjures up bucolic images of peace, reflection and very little noise apart, perhaps, from the occasional waft of Greg…
Cedar siding and a central breezeway feature in this compact home in the Pacific Northwest designed by US firm SHED for a couple who will soon retire. The project, called Whidbey Dogtrot, is named after its location on Whidbey Island, which lies just north of Seattle. The single…
Conversations with three figures integral to the conception of the expo.
My father, Alex Schweitzer, who has died aged 81, was an architect who specialised in public housing and worked for Islington council in north London for many years. After taking early retirement he used his architectural expertise to refurbish and adapt a group of old buildings…
The folded form of this villa, designed by Peter Pichler Architecture for the owners of a vineyard in South Tyrol, is intended to merge with the existing landscape and form a shield around its central courtyard. The Milan-based studio won an invited competition in 2018 to design…
American moms are isolated, overworked and undersupported. The solution may be living together, separately.
Architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has unveiled its design for a distillery drinks brand Horse Soldier Bourbon in Kentucky. The distillery was designed for Horse Soldier Bourbon, an American bourbon brand founded by retired US Special Forces servicemen. It is name…
He followed in the footsteps of his architect father, Morris, with glitzy landmarks in Times Square, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, where Donald Trump was a client.
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Interiors. Tip: use the han…
Matt Gibberd, founder of high-end architectural estate agency The Modern House, shares his top tipsFor the past 16 years, I have spent my days nosing round other people’s homes like a design-obsessed basset hound. I have been granted access through hundreds of locked doors, perch…
New York studio The Living developed a pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale to demonstrate how organic materials with microbial properties could be used in architecture to help create healthier environments for humans. The Living was invited by Biennale curator Hashim S…
This week on Dezeen, Adjaye Associates proposed a supertall skyscraper in New York that has a series of cantilevers to give it a dramatic, inverted appearance. Adjaye Associates, which is led by architect David Adjaye, designed the 1,663-feet-tall (498-metre) skyscraper for a va…
As part of a new exhibition at Egypt’s Great Pyramids of Giza, French artist JR has transformed the 4,500-year-old World Heritage Site into a haunting levitated mass, done over in steel and mesh, that will also be minted as a 4,591-piece NFT representing his first foray into the…
A new study published by Dodge Data & Analytics, in partnership with Autodesk, has concluded that stronger BIM use on architectural projects results in higher client satisfaction. The findings, set out in the free Accelerating Digital Transformation Through BIM SmartMarket Report…
The future of Soho and Noho is now up to the City Council. The City Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a high-profile proposal to rezone the neighborhoods, largely to allow for more residential and ground-floor retail. The proposal covers 56 blocks in the neighborhoods, la…
The wait is over at one of the most important synoptic collections in the western U.S. As part of a 50th-anniversary celebration of its iconic Gio Ponti building, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will officially reopen on Sunday following a four-year $150 million facelift and campus e…
TikTok has developed its own approach to home-design content: Skip over the home to obsess over the objects inside.
American firm LOHA has completed a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes in Los Angeles that is meant to explore possibilities for the small lot subdivision typology. The Canyon Drive project is located near Hollywood, just south of Beachwood Canyon. Totalling 10,000 square feet (…
Mecanoo, in collaboration with S.D. Atelier Design & Planning, has completed the redevelopment of a 1.7-kilometer-long former railway line into a green corridor featuring an herb garden, fitness areas, playground, viewpoint, and waterpark in Taichung, Taiwan. The aim of the proj…
Büro Ole Scheeren's residential Fifteen Fifteen skyscraper in Vancouver, which will have a distinctive form with numerous stacked boxy volumes, has taken a step closer to reality as apartment pre-sales begin. Sales will open in November 2021 for apartments in the proposed 42-sto…
The Pratt Institute’s Julia van den Hout has been appointed Architecture Curator and Program Director of upstate New York sculpture center Art Omi. A dual SVA and NYU alumna, van den Hout is the founder of Orginal Copy and also the co-founder and editor of CLOG, an active online…
With the work-at-home lifestyle likely here to stay, people are taking things outdoors, creating spaces meant for privacy and comfort. [...] More than a year and a half into the pandemic, working from home seems like an increasingly permanent proposition. Nearly 80 percent of bus…
For the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, the long-closed Arts and Industries Building reopens for a glimpse of the future.
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Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel were among the speakers that participated in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch the online event here. The…
By all accounts, much of Denver’s Golden Triangle neighborhood was once a desolate place. Up to and through the 1980s, the southern perimeter of Civic Center Park was reputedly home [...] Read More... The post Gio Ponti’s incongruously stolid Denver Art Museum sprouts a space-age…
The London Energy Transformation Initiative has published a report that sets out a blueprint for retrofitting UK homes in order to meet national climate change targets. Launched by the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) with the help of more than 100 leading architec…
St. George: The Sizzling Hot Sector of Utah
Italian architect Benedetto Camerana has created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 on the rooftop test track at Lingotto, Fiat's iconic former car factory in Turin. The garden, which contains over 40,000 indigenous plants, is part of a scheme to allow the public to visit the…
Dezeen promotion: Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, HOK and Foster + Partners are among the architectural practices giving presentations at Build: Architecture 2021, an event exploring innovative uses of real-time rendering. Build: Architecture 2021 is a two-hour showcase of projects…
The wait is over for one of Frank Gehry’s most highly-anticipated projects in the past few years. A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Saturday for the newly-opened Youth Orchestra Los Angeles Center in Los Angeles. Gehry was joined by LA Philharmonic director Gustavo Dudamel…
Having garnered acclaim for its landscape-integrated Macallan single malt whisky distillery and visitor experience in the Scottish Highlands, London-headquartered Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has hopped across the pond [...] Read More... The post Rogers Stirk Harbour +…
Designer Remi Connolly-Taylor has designed Maryland House in London, which features a glass brick enclosed staircase, as her own home and studio. Set at the end of a row of terraced houses in east London, the brick house was designed as a home that has a dedicated workspace for …
Architects could soon be designing homes and other buildings using nothing but biomaterials, according to Biobased Creations CEO Lucas De Man. De Man believes that natural products such as timber, hemp, straw and mycelium could completely replace polluting, non-renewable materia…
The UK's strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 does not go far enough and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups. More funding plus regulations to establish embodied carbon targets are needed, they say. RIBA president Simon Allford sa…
SO-IL, Yakusha Design and four other studios have been chosen by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the studio categories. Other winners include Tel Aviv-based Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio and Yakusha Design, whose objects are rooted in Ukrain…
Architecture studios Jakob+MacFarlane and T.ark have designed a low-carbon cross-laminated timber building called Living Landscape that will transform a landfill site in Iceland's capital city. Slated for completion in 2026, the 26,000-square-metre mixed-use building is set to b…
New York City Housing Demand Rebounds After Pandemic Slowdown
Even before Covid-19, many ambitious productions had been taking place not in the three-sided black boxes that defined the experimental zest and emerging punk of the late 1970s, or […] theater-in-the-round pioneered in ancient Greece and Rome, but in elaborately engineered glass…
The Greater London Authority is looking for architects to form a representative body in a new scheme formally announced by London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday. The mayor’s Architecture + Urbanism Framework will debut next spring with a fifty-member panel taken from the design commu…
Drones will soon be buzzing overhead in Dallas-Fort Worth, bearing small containers filled with Tylenol and Band-Aids. Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is bringing its drone delivery service to the Texas city, its first densely populated market.Walgreens will…
4 Ways to Prevent Common Building Envelope Failures
Santiago Calatrava’s “wing”-ringed UAE Pavilion isn’t the only avian-inspired work of architecture to rise on the 1,000-plus-acre Expo 2020 Dubai site. Located in Expo 2020’s Mobility District on a prime [...] Read More... The post The kinetic sculpture-adorned Polish Pavilion ta…
The offices of the Casa Leyros tequila distillery are located in stone buildings arranged around tranquil courtyards by Mexican firm 1540 Arquitectura. Situated in the town of Tequila in Mexico's Jalisco province, the small office building was designed by Guadalajara-based studi…
The University of Idaho recently announced that it has been awarded nearly $4 million from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program to develop technology for the conversion of wood waste into 3D-printing building materials. Resear…
Beyond changes initiated by the pandemic, this year has also come with faculty new hires and openings at various architecture schools. Recently another architecture dean announced their leave. As schools and architecture programs prepare for 2022, what will new and incoming archi…
Design Week Lagos (DWL), Africa’s most significant annual design festival, is back for its third edition. Running from today, October 21 through 31, the event will present the best in [...] Read More... The post The third edition of Design Week Lagos showcases the best in contemp…
Existing Home Sales Rise 7% in September, Following 2% Drop in August