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Imports of steel and aluminum into the United States have declined since the tariffs went into place, he said, but imports of products made with those metals had “significantly increased.” [...] As a result, [President Trump] said, the United States will expand its tariffs to cov…
Colorado architect Renzo Verbeck and artist Sylvia Adrienne Lisse have designed an eight-pointed angular structure to serve as the temple at the 2020 Burning Man Festival. Called Empyrean, the pavilion will form the centrepiece of the temporary Black Rock City during the annual…
Many are shaken by the recent news of the tragic deaths of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and 7 other people in Los Angeles over the weekend. As fans grieve the loss, the city of Los Angeles mourns for Bryant. With the number of accolades and championships Br…
According to a recently published economic report from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the nation's nonresidential construction sector is expected to see growth of just 1.5 percent through 2020, with a less than a one percent increase projected for 2021. The report do…
Demolition has started again on Paul Rudolph's Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, New York after it was halted two years ago when a resident refused to move off the premises. The demolition of the 1970s brutalist housing complex began on 23 January, after work was stopped in Janua…
A landmark state lawsuit will be settled if the Huntington Beach City Council approves an amended specific plan that increases housing. The lawsuit was enabled by 2017 legislation strengthening California's 50-year-old housing element law.
Autodesk Innovator of the Year Amr Raafat has teamed with a robot software company to develop an autonomous laser scanning and layout planning robot that is being used on Windover Construction work sites. The robot is able to move around on uneven surfaces to predetermined locati…
American designer and artist John-Paul Philippe has turned a weathered log cabin in Connecticut into his home and studio featuring striped wooden walls, eclectic ornaments and rustic finishes. Philippe previously lived in New York and purchased the remote property in Connecticut…
There are a number of obstacles and issues related to the 2020 Census enumeration of apartment building residents. This set of FAQs covers “Census Information for Rental Property Owners.”
The Berkeley City Council has voted to create a new city-run homeless encampment to help provide a safe and clean place for some of the city's unhoused residents to live temporarily. According to a report from Curbed, the measure was supported by a majority of the City Councilme…
Studio E Architects has broken its silence on its role in the Grenfell Tower refurbishment and told the public inquiry into the disaster that the regulatory system was to blame
A facility used by the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City (MOCA) was engulfed by a devastating fire last week that likely destroyed the entirety of the museum's collection. The impacted facility, at 70 Mulberry Street, is owned by the City of New York and consists of…
This article was written by Genaro Armas UWM’s School of Architecture is marking its 50th anniversary in a yearlong celebration that concludes with a gala weekend in April. To commemorate five decades of education, research and community engagement, architecture faculty members p…
A bold proposal to overhaul the region’s bus system will require leaders and government officials who will commit to putting the needs of riders front and center.
Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and KWC Architects, the Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada Joint Facility (OPL-LAC) combines the resources of two institutions to create an environment for discovery, learning, and fellowship. “This coming together of libr…
As the first phase of a much larger and broader Master Plan, the new Arrival Garden with its Moody Pavilions establishes a new public face for the institution and clarifies a dedicated pedestrian entry from West 35th Street just south of the historic gate.
Areas like St-Denis Street used to be bustling shopping destinations, but a shift in recent years has resulted in many empty storefronts.
Overlooking vast rice fields, scattered farmhouses, and mountains, sits a quaint wooden residence designed by Japan-based Motoki Ishikawa Architect & Associates Inc.. Located in Yokote, Japan, the design challenge came in addressing the area's dynamic climate where long winters i…
Figures on both sides of the Atlantic have paid tribute to academic and architect Bob Maxwell, who has died at the age of 97
Despite appearances and a popular media narrative, Baby Boomers aren't becoming more urban in old age—when compared to previous generations at the same age.
This house was born with the aim of being a place to be outdoors. The fundamental characteristic of the neighborhood was its flood condition, being part of the Paraná river delta, this meant the need to raise it. With these conditions and being a land bounded in dimensions, the c…
Governor Greg Abbott recently described a possible shift in state transportation infrastructure priorities—one that doesn’t involve funding road projects.
Architecture poet LionHeart delivers a highly-individual and humorous address at the AJ100 breakfast event in London
The house is set in Quinta da Beloura, at the upper class surroundings of Lisboa, where in the horizon we can see the Sintra mountain range.
The Lee Highway is expected to face new strains, and new life, with the arrival of Amazon, so planners are planning a transformation, starting with a new bus lane.
The world is sprawling as it develops, according to ambitious new research.
The lead counsel to the Grenfell Inquiry has accused Studio E Architects and every one of the contractors that worked on the tower’s refurbishment of dodging blame for the 2017 tragedy
The government of China is rapidly building a 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan as part of its efforts to contain and treat patients suspected of contracting coronavirus. Named Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital, the 25,000-square-metre facility is being built in the Caidian District in the w…
RECORD surveys four upcoming projects by MVRDV, Moreau Kusunoki, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, and Bjarke Ingels Group with James Corner Field Operations.
If a straight line is the shortest path between two points, the curve is what makes the concrete find infinity. With this sentence from our honorable Oscar Niemeyer, we introduce this duplex in Moema, that had the entire upper floor refurbished in order to serve the needs of a yo…
When members of the Bauhaus school fled Germany, many of these talented visionaries made their way to Tel Aviv. At the time, the city was in its fledgling stages and served as the ideal blank canvas for this idealistic concept. Today, the city boasts over 4,000 Bauhaus buildings…
A record 26 towers over 300 metres were completed in 2019 according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, while there was a drop in the number of 200-metre-tall buildings completed. Of the 26 new supertall towers the 530-metre-high Tianjin CTF Finance Centre by SOM…
The new high-quality housing project offers 15 innovative apartments, sheltered in green and lush surroundings in Askeveien, Skøyen, Oslo. The residential building band together with the adjacent historical landscape and built environment in a respectful manner while adopting a m…
Open More Doors is a section by ArchDaily and the MINI Clubman that takes you behind the scenes of the world’s most innovative offices through exciting video interviews and an exclusive photo gallery featuring each studio’s workspace.
Currently, there are a multitude of pavements in the market, each with different characteristics. When designing a public space, it is essential to ask the right questions regarding requirements and functions to determine the right material for the job. To begin: Where will the p…
Following the earthquakes of September 2017, different architectural offices, designers and collaborators, both national and international, joined ReConstruir México, a project supported by PienZa Sostenible, which emerged with the aim to join forces to achieve conscious and sust…
A glazed cut through a barn-style gabled house set into a hill in rural Poland by Kropka Studio has views of its mountain surroundings. Set into a gently sloping site in the Beskid Ślaski mountain range, the project is called House in the Mountains. The long, thin house is also…
Bjarke Ingels is the go-to golden boy for Big Tech – and now Brazil’s Bolsonaro wants a bit of his magic. But should architects boycott oppressive leaders? Do their buildings glorify their ideology? Sun-kissed walkways in the sky, platefuls of seafood ceviche, a private helicopte…
The privileged view of nature was the core starting point for this project on the mountainous region of Nova Lima, State of Minas Gerais/Brazil. An adventurer couple chose us to create this special project in such an exclusive area.
Designed by Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei, and developed by Ithra Dubai, the latest addition to Dubai’s skyline is a mixed-use two towers project with a horizontal connection housing one of the world’s largest cantilevers. Currently, under construction, One Za'abeel Tower is schedu…
Architect and visual artist Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar has been conceptually combining contemporary landmarks with traditional Iranian houses, palaces and monuments in a photo-series titled Retrofuturism. In his latest exploration, Peace, the Persian architect looks to Iran's Pe…
Energy infrastructure has historically been met with a “Not in My Back Yard” response from policymakers and the public alike. Aside from the clear human health implications of coal plants and natural gas stations, the architecture of energy infrastructure has traditionally been d…
Mexican-Spanish architect Félix Candela (Jan 27, 1910 – Dec 7, 1997) was known for redefining the role of the architect in relation to structural problems, and played a crucial role in the development of new structural forms of concrete. His famous experimentation with concrete g…
It always takes time to make something great, but what surprised T2.a architects about its Jazz Loft project was how a forced break unexpectedly managed to lead to a more refined and rewarding building in the long run. Renovated from an abandoned 19th Century mill, architects Ben…
CODE - COmpetitions for DEsigners has launched the “Roversi Design Award”, a competition of ideas aiming to design spaces for people’s life, work and amusement in the industry 4.0 era of fluidity and dematerialization. A cash prize of €10,000 will be awarded to the winners, sele…
Reconstruction of a country house in the Murta Valley. The house is located on a gentle slope of orange tree terraces facing north and the banks of the Xúquer River. The entrance is through a staircase and a large garden terrace raised above the ground, leaving the construction s…
Archiloft project (450 sq.m.) - new public and event space in Moscow, Russia - is the result of renovation of an energetic station of the first half of 20th century. The architecture replies on the concept of highlighting the historic brick shell while providing a contemporary in…
There had long been a search for municipal use of a very small plot in the green area between the Inn river and a densely populated city district with high-rise buildings from the 1960s. Finally, it ended up giving a use to a house for psychosocial care and living.
Located in Caesarea, A beach community in the middle of Israel. A single family house designed for a family of six. The house is based on an existing structure that was built in the early 80’s and was part a trend to emulate the monumental Roman aqueduct in the architecture of th…
After a brief appearance in 2012, ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft had yet to touch down in Vancouver, British Columbia. That changed on January 24.
Anchorage's People Mover transit system reports ridership has increased for the first time in a decade. Ridership increased 5.7% in annual ridership as compared to 2018.
A house in Japan by Atelier Kento Eto is clad entirely in black corrugated metal with sliding doors that reveal a double-height hall with white walls. Located in the town of Kadogawa in Miyazaki Prefecture, the square house combines living areas with a large open space to cater…
While commonly known as a tech hub, Silicon Valley is home to a number of impressive residential designs. US reporter Bridget Cogley picks out six stand-out homes in the area. About an hour-and-a-half drive south from Downtown San Francisco, Silicon Valley comprises over a dozen…
Architects Peter McNeil and Clarissa Nam have built two detached houses on a corner lot in Toronto to live in and use as a rental property. Semi Semi is the first home of McNeil and Nam, the co-founders of COMN Architects, which stands for Collaboration between Peter McNeil and…
The university’s expansive new library and dance centre, designed by Dublin’s Grafton Architects, invites students to engage with each other – and the neighbourhoodArchitects love to talk about the public. They describe how their buildings will welcome people in, how their design…
Charlie Luxton Design has refurbished a neglected brick bungalow on the edge of a village in the Cotswolds to create a family home. Designed by Oxfordshire-based Charlie Luxton Design the home, called Lamorna, draws on the appearance of the neighbouring agricultural structures t…
Floating saunas, an egg-shaped sauna and a sauna built like a concrete mine shaft are some of the 10 unique saunas to warm up in cold countries. Gothenburg Public Sauna, Sweden, by Raumlabor Local residents worked with Berlin-based studio Raumlabor to build the Gothenburg Public…
This week on Dezeen, the work of up-and-coming French designers, alongside sofas and rugs were on show at the Maison&Objet furniture and accessories fair in Paris. Maison&Objet's Rising Talents exhibition highlighted the work of six emerging French designers: Natacha & Sacha, La…
Architects including Junya Ishigami, Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu spoke at the inaugural The World Around architecture forum in New York. Watch the full conference on Dezeen. The World Around is a new architecture forum curated by Beatrice Galilee. The first edition to…
Adolfo Natalini, who, along with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, co-founded the visionary architects' collective Superstudio, has passed away at age 78. Natalini was born on May 10, 1941 in Pistoia, Italy. He attended the University of Florence, graduating in 1966. That year, he a…
It's time to vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster! Let's look back at the posters we featured in Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series for Fall '19. Which one will win the top spot this time? In our last poll, the Abedian School of Architecture won first pl…
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 Archin…
David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a tough and gentle store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanaian architect's first project in California. Adjaye Associates was enlisted to create the 11,000-square-foot (1,022-square-me…
City Roads, an online tool developed by software engineer Andrei Kashcha, allows users to search any city and instantly receive back only the streets by pulling data from OpenStreetMap. Simply search, click, and enjoy the beauty of urban planning. You can print your city of choic…
Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present” was once touted to be one of Yale College’s quintessential classes. But [its cancellation] is the latest response to student uneasiness over an ide…
Designed by top-notch architecture practices, eight projects located across the globe — from Chicago to Mumbai to Copenhagen — recently received AIA 2020 Architecture Awards. The awards competition highlights some of the best contemporary architecture and serves as a reminder of…
Designer Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed is showing a pavilion made of kelp and rattan at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, where world leaders have met this week. Called Hidaka Ohmu, the organically shaped pavilion is formed from semi-translucent panels of a l…
Damning assessment by group of leading architects and engineers describes government plan as ‘a step backwards’Proposed changes to building regulations in England are likely to make buildings less energy efficient not more, a group of leading architects and engineers has warned.I…
Thomas Heatherwick, who created the Vessel at Hudson Yards, has designed buildings where every window is a bay window.
This post is brought to you by Azure Magazine For the 10th annual AZ Awards, we’ve gathered together another stellar jury: Luca Nichetto, Stephanie Davidson, Omar Gandhi, Mia Lehrer and Marion Weiss. These five world-renowned practitioners exemplify the competition’s focus awardi…
We get it. It can get a little overwhelming keeping up with the dozens of new architecture competitions launching worldwide on any given week — let alone having to stay on top of the multiple deadlines for each and every one. That's why Bustler is here to help! At the end of ever…
Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for squatter communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. ModSkool is made of cheap materials such as bamboo and local craft techniques such as charpai weavin…
A collaboration between three London-based architectural designers has won Mexican architecture platform Arquine’s annual contest for a £4,000 (100,000 pesos) demountable pavilion in Mexico City
Chinese practice Arch Studio have renovated an abandoned hutong in Beijing, making a house with curving glass walls around internal courtyards. Originally the hutong was a style of courtyard residence known as a siheyuan. The project is called Qishe Courtyard for the seven origi…
Five designs have been selected to advance to the final round of this year's edition of the City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition. Organized by FIGMENT in collaboration with the Emerging New York Architects Committee of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter and the…
This weekend, the Architecture and Design Museum (A+D) in Los Angeles will debut a new collection of exhibitions via its seasonal The Assembly opening event. The opening will highlight four new exhibitions set to occupy the museum's Arts District space for the next several months…
Designing more sustainable structures is not about deciding what is good or bad, but making more carefully considered design decisions, says architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. The Burkinabe architect told Dezeen that facing the climate crisis in the next decade would be a challenge…
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has released a statement explaining his reasoning behind the decision to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last week. In the statement, Ingels, founder and creative partner at the multi-national architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG…
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has defended his decision to meet with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and said he intends to work in the country in the future. Ingels released a statement rejecting the idea that countries like Brazil should be off-limits to architects after a…
In 2018, 60 workers died due to temperature extremes, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data on workplace fatalities. Though the climate crisis is creating conditions where workers are facing hotter temperatures on a more frequent basis, there are no federal…
For all you diehard Le Corbusier fans or architectural model enthusiasts out there, you don't want to miss out on the upcoming Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold, which will be released on February 4. Thanks to Laurence King Publishing, Archinect is…
Continuing with our Spotlight on Los Angeles, we venture out west to LA's coastal cities. If you're a fan of working minutes from Venice Beach, Santa Monica, or if you're intrigued by LA's own Silicon Beach, check out these nine firms that are currently seeking the right candidat…
Situated within a rural Vermont landscape, amongst white pines and maple trees, this Olson Kundig-designed cabin seeks to bring a family into closer connection with one another and the surrounding forests. This is an intentionally straightforward and economical cabin where the fa…
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed its design for galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. The design galleries will be created as part of a series of phased reopenings of the Colorado museum's Martin Building design…
As part of an ambition to transform Merwede in southwest Utrecht, an urban plan design, led by Marco.Broekman has been underway since 2016 with a definitive design endeavor under development this year. Simply called Merwede, the new neighborhood includes 6,000 dwellings, high-qua…
More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA's city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. Currently under construction in the Austrian capital, the car-free IKEA store is designed by local studio Querkraft Architekten to address rad…
Norman Foster has proposed having an architectural competition to design a new home for the UK parliament's upper chamber, if it is relocated from London to York. If the House of Lords is to be relocated north we must use the power of architecture to express our political and ec…
Al Faya Lodge and Al Bait Hotel offer hospitality that connects travellers with Sharjah's history says Khawla Al Hashimi, director of project development at Shurooq, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Shurooq, an investment and development firm based in the e…
We've selected four roles for architectural assistants available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Tonkin Liu and Claridge Architects. Part 2 architectural assistant at Tonkin Liu Tonkin Liu is looking for a Part 2 architectural assistant to join its team in Londo…
A swing suspended from a floating stair and a spiral staircase of polished plaster are some of the details included by architecture studio Cousins & Cousins in a London house. Designed for a builder who also acted as the main contractor on the project, Kenwood Lee House is defin…
Global pop star Akon and Senegalese government officials are readying to break ground on a new ground-up 2,000-acre sustainable tourism city near the country's capital, Dakar. Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the futu…
The shortlisted architects for the inaugural MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice and the 2020 Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture were announced today. Both prizes are part of the Architects' Journal / Architectural Record's W Awards, formerly known as the Women in…
Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first-ever female architect, was named the 2020 recipient of the Jane Drew Prize, the Architects' Journal announced today. The 79-year-old Lari was honored with the lifetime achievement prize for raising the profile of women practicing in architecture and…
The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of its 2020 Honor Awards, which include Snøhetta's Calgary library and the Glenstone Museum in Maryland. The 2020 AIA Institute Honor Awards aims to recognise projects designed by architects licensed in the USA that…
Argentinan studio Carolina Vago Arquitectura has added a metal and glass volume on top of old horse stables to create this rural holiday home. The Stables, or Las Caballerizas, is a remote property nestled into a mountainside in Salta in northwest Argentina. The project was form…
The US has become terrible at building big things, and negligent in even maintaining our existing infrastructure. [...] That all bodes terribly for our ability to grapple with the coming dangers of climate change, because it is fundamentally an infrastructure problem.MIT Technolo…
After a somewhat bumpy spring and summer, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) closed out the year on a positive note with three consecutive months of modest growth. A strong winter Architecture Billings Index Score for December: 52.5Project inquiries index: 58.7Design contracts…
The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. Nestled into a 3.5 metre gap in a Victorian terrace, the project is called The Coach House after the place…
A federal lawsuit filed by Marlon Blackwell Architects brings into focus the complex nature of collaboration.
American firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects has refurbished a round, mid-century dwelling that rotates 360 degrees and has created a pool house that doubles as guest quarters. The Round House is located on a verdant, four-acre property in Wilton, a small town in southweste…
