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Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a library in the city of Haikou, China that is intended to be a wormhole that transcends time and space. Named the Wormhole Library, the structure is currently under construction within Century Park overlooking the South China Sea in…
Located at a commercial area in Setrasari, Bandung, this project is converted from a four storey shop-house. The challenge is how to design a space that doesn’t have a shop-house feel in it. And as usual, time and budget are also included in the design constraint.
Peopling Studio offers a 3D library of diverse characters in a variety of scenes to use and customize in your digital renders. The project appears to be voluntarily founded and run, offering free downloads. Their disclaimer describes the motives and inspiration behind the projec…
Site and Client Brief - Set in a densely woven grocery market in the main city area of Vadodara, the site is a very tight plot of 450 sqft enveloped by shops sharing terraces on 3 sides leaving only the road side open for light, ventilation and accessibility. The client, engaged…
The project is located on the west side of the main axis of Xi Li University Town in Nanshan, Shenzhen. It is located in the Nanshan High-tech Development Zone and is the starting point of the new scientific research experimental area on campus. The architecture integrates the fu…
Architecture studio SO-IL has built a green-mesh structure with suspended seating in this installation on the Renzo Piano-designed plaza of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. SO-IL created the structure to temporarily occupy the plaza in front of the extension that Italian archi…
This project involved the remodeling of a church founded 50 years ago. Located in a suburb of Sapporo, the church stands in a residential area near the Olympic Memorial Park, facing a tree-lined avenue. The church runs a kindergarten, with which it shares the site. The lot is not…
Moscow designers Davit and Mary Jilavyan spent the coronavirus lockdown creating renderings of an imaginary community in Mexico with two-toned buildings and streets dotted with cacti and swimming pools. Architect Davit and designer Mary created the computer images during the Cov…
This project is located in Hangzhou Zancheng Center, a building with square structure façade. It is adjacent to Qiantang River in the south, attracting many famous international companies to settle in for office. The owner is a company founder, who focuses on high-end clothing de…
Construction on the $1.97 billion, 1.8 million-square-foot stadium wrapped July 30, and the certificate was awarded the following day. Construction on the stadium was not slowed or shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.The stadium, designed by Kansas City-based firm MANICA Archit…
The county of Los Angeles is looking for policy tools that will add affordable housing units to the housing market. Inclusionary zoning is its policy of choice.
Located a stone’s throw from the region’s technology center, this house is nestled into a stand of mature cedar trees. Our client wanted a house that had abundant natural light and a strong connection to the land. To accomplish that, we pushed the building back away from the stre…
This proposal is a renovation of an existing store, for the settlement of a Medical-Esthetical Clinic – “Corporación Dermoestética”. The existing space is integrated on a building which, as many surrounding ones, is from the 60’s and 70’s. The urban front of the street where it’s…
The Seattle Planning Commission recently published a report titled A Racially Equitable and Resilient Recovery.
The job market may be tricky to navigate as a recent graduate, however, firms across the nation are in search of talented applicants that are looking to gain experience and grow. Recently Archinect has focused on highlighting the projects of recent graduates as they work through…
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, have released the design of the Wormhole Library, which will sit on the coast in Haikou, Hainan Province in China. The library will serve as a multi-functional building that will invite visitors to enjoy views of the sea, read through a collecti…
The short-term environmental effects of the pandemic economic downturn are clear in the amount of carbon emissions that have been removed from the economy. The long-term effects, however, are subject to a number of contingencies.
On a lot with lush vegetation and a dry and sandy environment, the house seeks a balance between privacy and a relationship with the exterior space. Persistent and easy-maintenance materials are used from the start, understanding the environment and the user's requirements.
The Brazilian government is planning to install anti-drone antennas on the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Planalto, Alvorada and Jaburu palaces in Brasília, which would disrupt the clean form of the modernist buildings. Brazil's Institutional Security Office (GSI) is planning to place…
City Dreamers is a Canadian documentary directed by Joseph Hillel that looks at the lives of Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Cornelia Oberlander, and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, all notable powerhouses in architecture and design who were among some of the first women to rise t…
Despite COVID-19 Hurdles, Crystal Lagoons U.S. Corp. Sees Strong Sales Performance and Potential
A planning change would make it easier to develop housing near transit in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2018, the county adopted a development moratorium intended to prevent overcrowding in schools.
In the north-east of Brasil, on the shore of São Miguel do Gostoso supported by the softest things: the wind and the clouds, rises casa Modico, one of the recent and characteristic projects by Atelier Branco. The influence of the land and its connection to the wind has developed…
Expansion plans for the Brooklyn Music School got a boost this month when New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) approved a substantially-revised design for the project. The Landmarks Preservation Commission [...] Read More... The post Second time’s the charm for…
The pandemic delayed the 2020 Census, and the Trump administration will cut it short. Experts say this could be the most flawed Census in the country's history.
NAHB: Soaring Lumber Costs Could Push New Home Prices Higher
Based on a proposal to create a main axis to connect two blocks originally housing the hotel’s activities by sector, in the main building and the pool area, this project by Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana for the Nova Área de Lazer do Grande Hotel Senac São Pedro was conce…
Computer simulations continue to play a novel and important role in urban planning, especially in finding new ways to engage the public and add some fun to the process of planning for the future of cities.
The consequences of more than a century of planning and zoning are gaining more attention in the media as the country struggles through a pandemic. Will these lessons win new political support for more density in residential neighborhoods?
I thought I knew the Cathedral in Porto. In my First Year of architecture we went over to draw it. From outside, from inside. The worst of it was the Cloister, full of geometry, full of different perspectives. Still, it was nothing to compare with the circular cloister of the Ser…
The Providence Climate Justice Plan offers an exemplary approach to prioritizing the communities and neighborhoods most impacted by the environmental effects of development and industrial pollution.
Foster + Partners has released visuals for a 39-storey skyscraper that will be built above the Pitt Street metro station it is developing in central Sydney, Australia. Named Pitt Street OSD, the skyscraper forms part of Foster + Partners ongoing work to expand the Sydney Metro –…
Magis has debuted Bell Chair, a contemporary monobloc chair designed by Konstantin Grcic.
New York Festivals has launched 'Bowery Awards,' a new competition celebrating independent creatives in the commercial landscape. Proceeds of the 2020 Bowery Awards will be donated to Feed the Frontlines NYC.
Eschewing a Western definition of modernity, Mariam Kamara instead conceives of buildings and spaces that account for how people really live.
Organized by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the 'Sustainable Fashion Business' conference will showcase the achievements of international brands producing in Portugal as a part of the global industry. Demonstrating direct progress from the fashion world, it will also highlight t…
Concept and Organization. It is a contextual and yet spectacular signature building that together with the proposed square creates a new identity and an initiation for further development in Nord-Odal. It is the new living-room for Sand´s inhabitants, the main gathering space wit…
Created by JDO, Normville puts a positive and playful spin on social distancing, reinforcing its importance in a refreshing way that will resonate with a society suffering from a bit of lockdown fever.
Foster + Partners has revealed visuals for its Pitt Street OSD and metro station design in Sydney, Australia. Stretching out underground across an entire city block, the over station development in the center of the city puts in place a 39-story office building and “creates a vib…
Swiss practice Think Architecture has created House at a Vineyard, which includes a veranda and sunken courtyard that have vistas across the waters of Lake Zurich. The house is situated in a wildflower-filled meadow that lies beyond a small vineyard near Lake Zurich. It was crea…
Despite a bad reputation in children's stories, straw buildings can be sustainable, comfortable, and, above all, solid and resistant. Several studies and experiments have been carried out with this agricultural waste substance, qualifying it as an potential material for the const…
The Longhouse is a study in inclusion where a boutique farm, garden kitchen, cooking school, reception venue and home are consolidated within a single 110m long mannered shed. Internalising all agricultural and hospitality activities under one enormous roof is a masterstroke that…
While in a lot of countries around the world, the construction, architecture, engineering, and urban planning sectors, are still reserved for men, initiatives that empower women in these fields are surfacing everywhere around the globe. Playing a huge role in the integration of f…
El Barrial is an authentic experience of resting and living together as a family. The project is located in the El Barrial area, in the municipality of Santiago, Nuevo León. Away from the city, the noise and stress disappear little by little along a dirt road until you get lost i…
Hungarian architect Tamás Nagy, Head of the department of architecture at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, has passed away at 69 years old. Born in Csorna in 1951, he worked as an architect in Budapest and New York before establishing his own architectural office. In…
A rammed earth residence in Mexico features amenities abound.
Swedish design duo Folkform has installed a mural composed of over 1,000 individual glass and ceramic pieces in an indoor public swimming pool in Spånga, Stockholm. The mural was commissioned as an art installation by Stockholm Konst, a municipal fund for public art works, and i…
Speed limits are currently determined by a calculation that considers only the status quo of vehicular velocity. Standard practices for speed limit setting and legislators should prioritize the safety of community members, according to this article.
Groundbreaking for the first component of Chicago's massive Lincoln Yards redevelopment project has been scheduled for early 2021.
Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture has built a ghost-like pavilion on the roof of Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City as part of his Memory Houses exhibition at the architect's former residence. The installation, which was placed on top of Casa Luis Barragán during Aug…
South African designer Porky Hefer took cues from the amorphous shape of bird nests to create this off-grid guesthouse on a wildlife reserve in Namibia. The Nest at Sossus guesthouse is situated on the Namib Tsaris Conservancy, a 24,000-hectare reserve nestled between the Nubib…
The Irish postal worker spent decades filling his home and garden with his peculiar and eccentric take on historyA marvel stands close to destruction. It is, or was, a dream world, created in a modest ground-floor flat, in which handmade statues and models conjured a fantastical…
In a building as beautiful as this, do we really need someone to tell us what to think?Ah, but what a blissful sound last Sunday morning, as the church bells rang out in town for the first time since heaven knows when. To my untutored ear, they sounded a mite scratchy, but little…
Black cobogó bricks, timber and stone cover the three volumes that make up this house in Franca, São Paulo designed by Brazilian studio MF+ Arquitetos. MF+ Arquitetos, which is also based in Franca – a municipality of São Paulo state – configured Cobogós House as a series of b…
An architect and a designer have built their own home in Melbourne to house their collection of art, sculpture and furniture. Set on the bank of the Yarra River, River House was also designed to provide outdoor activities for the couple's children, with a swimming pool and a bas…
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 11th annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy, and hand-lettering.
The eighteenth Pure Talents Contest, an internationally renowned design competition for young designers, is now open for submissions.
Applied Arts is now accepting submissions for its 2020 Advertising Awards. The international competition is open to all forms of commissioned, published, unpublished and personal work from professionals and enthusiasts created between August 2019 and September 2020. Only digital…
This week on Dezeen, the UK government came under fire as it announced its plans to deregulate and automatically grant planning permission for housing in England. Alongside housing, the new planning system will also see schools, hospitals, shops and offices automatically secured…
Designed by Felix Braden, Turbine is a neo-grotesque typeface with superelliptical curves.
Now open for submissions, the PAVE Student Design Competition promotes 'real world' design experience for college-level students interested in pursuing careers in the retail design industry. This annual international competition is open exclusively to undergraduate college studen…
In response to a competition held be Renault back in 2016 for new automotive-inspired architecture and design, French-based design studio Marchi Architectes submitted the first place entry. Called the Renault Symbioz House 33, the architects designed a portable home inspired by R…
The Las Vegas Raiders’ stadium is now finished, almost 1,000 days after breaking ground and just in time for the 2020 NFL season. The 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium, home base for [...] Read More... The post Work is complete on the Las Vegas Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium appeared fir…
If you are looking for new architectural career opportunities in the greater Los Angeles area, check out this curated selection of newly posted positions from Archinect Jobs. Need to look up specific job titles from the architectural profession? Simply consult Archinect's Guide t…
Nonfarm Payroll Employment Rises by 1.8 Million in July
The Denver Architecture Foundation (DAF) has launched two free audio tours featuring 24 locations of notable structures across Denver. The tours highlight over a century of architectural history throughout the region through dynamic storytelling and presentation. DAF values histo…
Architects and designers in Beirut have shared their first-hand accounts of the huge explosion that destroyed a large part of the city on Tuesday, with one describing the devastation as beyond an apocalypse. I thought it was a tsunami or a bomb, or even a nuclear blast, said arc…
NAHB Agenda to Address Workforce Development, Housing Affordability, and More
Susan Burton, an advocate for formerly incarcerated women, is racing against the clock to shelter those freed early because of the surge of coronavirus cases in prisons.
Week in Tech: Searching for Sustainable Asphalt Alternatives
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. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archine…
A linear red-brick wall obscures the textured interiors and art-filled courtyard hidden inside McLean Quinlan's low-rise Passivhaus home in Devon, UK. The energy-efficient dwelling, aptly named Devon Passivhaus, nestles into a sloped walled garden that was once owned by an old E…
The UK government's planning reform proposals, which were revealed yesterday, will fail to address the root causes of England's housing crisis according to architects and critics. The government's Planning for the Future white paper, which aims to reform the planning system, pri…
A high-altitude lavatory with gabion walls and a reimagined motel feature in this VDF school show of work from University of Colorado Denver's College of Architecture and Planning. The projects range from built to conceptual and were created by students as part of their graduate…
The Washington, D.C.–based landscape architect speaks with RECORD about his career and latest initiative: the Black Landscape Architects Network.
In Brazilian photographer Cássio Vasconcellos' series entitled Collectives, the artist instigates a visual debate on the urban chaos of modern civilization by exploring jam-packed situations typical of our society, writes Art Historian and Critic Cynthia Garcia. Some of those sce…
Architecture studio Atelier Dau has created an infill extension with a perforated bronze facade for the refurbishment of a heritage-listed building in Sydney. Chimney House was designed by the Sydney-based studio as two interconnected volumes after the owners decided to extend t…
A new installation by SO–IL at the High Museum of Art lets visitors lounge in dappled shade on the courtyard of the Atlanta institution. Murmuration pulls on catholic inspirations to [...] Read More... The post SO–IL delivers a shady aqua canopy to the High Museum of Art plaza in…
Mass Design Group has published its latest COVID-19 guide aimed at retrofitting and upgrading existing senior living facilities to minimize pandemic transmission. The Designing Senior Housing for Safe Interaction; The Role of Architecture in Fighting COVID-19 guide follows a stra…
An undulating lobby ceiling that Isamu Noguchi sculpted in the 1940s has emerged at a U-Haul branch in St. Louis, two decades after it was hidden by partitions and dropped ceiling panels. Noguchi designed the feature, known as a lunar landscape, for the building’s original owner,…
The Future of Underwriting the Economy
From volcanic rock, soil-based render to roofs covered in shrubs, these seven houses have all been designed to complement their setting in Mexico's scenic Valle de Bravo. Santana House by CC Arquitectos Santana House is a one-storey property designed by CC Arquitectos to step do…
This post is brought to you by the L.A. Forum The summer exhibition “Every. Thing. Changes.” by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents 20 new works documenting the collective view of life in Los Angeles in its new decade. The newly commissioned texts and…
Beijing-based architects TEMP have designed the X Museum located in Beijing. Puling from its name, the museum entrance flaunts a giant X built from two intersecting H-beams that structurally support an overhanging perforated roof. As one approaches the structure, on both ends of…
the government is tearing up the national rule book that has been in place since the second world war to ensure the best use of land, and replacing it with three simple classifications. From now on, all land in England will be designated for either “growth”, with automatic planni…
Sherwin-Williams Collects Four Color Palettes in 2021 Colormix Forecast
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) announced that Open House Chicago (OHC)—one of 46 global Open House events and the second-most widely attended of them—will kick off on October 16 and [...] Read More... The post Open House Chicago 2020 is officially a go (with some not-so-sm…
As COVID-19 Continues, High-End Second-Home Sales Are on the Rise
Europe has a strong showing in the Future Projects - Residential shortlist
Projects in Russia, China and France shortlisted for the Future Projects - Mixed Use category
The UK government has laid out proposals to speed up planning approval for developments, which prime minister Boris Johnson described as unlike anything we have seen since the second world war. In a report published today titled Planning for the Future, the government details pl…
A glimpse into the future of global leisure
Architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has topped the Lahofer Winery in the Czech Republic with a walkable roof with an open-air theatre. The concrete winery in a vineyard near the villages of Dobšice and Suchohrdly, was designed for Lahofer – one of the largest wine producers in…
China and Canada projects are in the running on this shortlist
Students of Accelerate, a UK design mentorship scheme run by Open City and the Bartlett, explore the theme of dichotomies in their graduate show. Now in its seventh year, Accelerate organises workshops and mentoring sessions for a group of 30 to 40 sixth form school students fro…
Architecture practice Partners Hill has designed this lengthy shed-style home in the Australian town of Daylesford, Victoria to incorporate living, cooking and agricultural facilities. Described by Partners Hill as a study in inclusion, Longhouse contains a farm, restaurant-cum-…
Often, photographers find their best outdoor shots to be marred by bad lighting. If this sounds familiar, then you’re in need of a softbox. Photography is tricky. Be it extreme shadows or excessive light, anything apart from optimal lighting conditions can prove disastrous for th…
Government’s dramatic building reforms likely to cut democratic input into the planning process by half“More good quality, attractive and affordable homes faster.” According to the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, that is the main aim of his “complete overhaul” of the English p…
Bordeaux studio A6A has created Heva, a black pine-clad cabin designed for off-grid living, in Ustaritz, south-west France. The 22-square-metre timber cabin was designed by A6A for the studio's co-founder Michel Hardoin as a small house that could be taken anywhere. It was named…
Attention architects: New York City is looking for your help to design its newest public buildings. The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has put out two [...] Read More... The post Architects, now’s your chance to shape the future of New York City public…