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‘Togetherness’ as a Synonym for ‘Transportation’ James Brasuell Mon, 05/23/2022 - 12:00
AC Milan’s Serie A championship title over the weekend brought out the missives on placemaking and memory concerning the club’s future in the 96-year-old stadium adored by the Milanese as their seconda casa. The facilities, last upgraded in 1990 and renovated throughout the 2000…
New-Home Mortgage Applications Decrease 10.6% YOY in April
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According to the latest estimates, building operations account for 28 percent of global carbon emissions. A report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that reducing energy [...] Read More... The post This ultra-efficient San Antonio office und…
A Portland house with a provenance like no other is for sale. The revolutionary dwelling was designed 82 years ago by modernist architect Richard Neutra for lily hybridizer Jan de Graaff and his wife, Peggy, heir to the Macy’s department store owner who died on the Titanic.The ho…
This post is brought to you by YACademy Pandemic, economic crisis, migration, and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as an “emergency context”. The United Nations - already before the pandemic…
It’s late spring already, and that means the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects is back with the seventh edition of its annual AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards.Home design projects from across the city, country, and even abroad were given Awards of…
More Funds to Transform the Puente Hills Landfill into a Regional Park clementkhlau Mon, 05/23/2022 - 11:00 Primary Image Recently, there have been much discussion at both the federal and state levels of government about achieving “30x30,” the goal of conserving 30 percent of lan…
Denver Freeway Widening Plans on Hold James Brasuell Mon, 05/23/2022 - 10:00 Primary Image Plans to widen Interstate 25 through Denver have been shelved by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Michael Booth reports for the Colorado Sun: “Highway officials have given up on e…
The recent events at SCI-Arc are a flashpoint for industry-wide labor grievances and must lead to systemic change writes Corie Yaguchi, a former student of the Los Angeles architecture school. The suspension and investigation of prominent members of SCI-Arc's faculty are not eno…
Public Perceptions of Sprawl and Greenhouse Gas Emissions James Brasuell Mon, 05/23/2022 - 09:00 Primary Image You might have noticed a viral tweet from April that criticized a satellite view of New York City as proof of the bad environmental outcomes of urban living. “Imagine li…
The project presented a design challenge for our studio, which consisted of making the most of a property located in a mountainous region, with sloping topography and a unique panoramic view of the great Fúquene lake and the natural landscape that surrounds it. We wanted to gener…
Housing Market May Finally Be Cooling Down Diana Ionescu Mon, 05/23/2022 - 08:00 Primary Image After years of climbing prices and falling supplies, the housing market is finally showing some signs that it is stabilizing. As reported by Alana Semuels in Time, “Existing home sales…
Austria-based architecture office querkraft has completed an IKEA furniture store in the country’s capital Vienna, whose exterior was inspired by bookcases. Designed as a car-free venue, the scheme was developed with the vision of being a “good neighbor” for the surrounding commu…
Report: Bike Commuting Up by 61 Percent Since 2000 Diana Ionescu Mon, 05/23/2022 - 07:00 Primary Image A report from The Bike Adviser outlines the state of bike commuting in the United States. “More and more Americans nowadays seem to value the exercise that they get from using t…
On a plot of 356,000 m2 in the proximate of Rod's KM69. Castello Branco in the municipality of Mairinque/SP, a clearing of approx. 70,000m2 where a plateau was built for the implementation of the industrial complex of MONTCALM MONTAGENS INDUSTRIAIS.
The site proposes a collection of vernacular architectures: an old chapel, a cellar, steps forming a natural amphitheater, old orchards, and terraced gardens. Besides its central position in the village, the place also offers many views on the wine-growing landscape.
The Royal College of Art’s brutalist new building – by architects Herzog & de Meuron – reflects a shift from art school to science-tech powerhouse. But is a business-facing behemoth what its students really need?Standing like the brutalist lovechild of a factory and a multi-store…
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has completed a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge's Homerton College with a faience-tiled volume set above a pigmented-concrete colonnade. Designed to reference the adjacent arts and crafts-style Ibberson Building…
Deconstructivism was built on intellectual rigour and a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share, says French-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi in this exclusive interview as part of our series on the style. According to Tschumi, who was one of the seven ar…
British architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled the BWDC Residential Tower in Manila, Philippines, which will feature wraparound verandas with large roof overhangs that help keep the apartments cool. Designed to have expansive views of a golf club in central Manila, t…
For this home renovation project in Sayulita, two main actions were carried out. In the centre of the house, in the original location of the kitchen, part of the roof was removed to create an interior courtyard that serves as an access and distribution hall between the private an…
The Regenerative High-Rise is a concept for a modular timber tower by architecture studio Haptic and engineering firm Ramboll that could be used to transform tricky sites in cities worldwide. Aiming to futureproof the high-rise, the conceptual structure is designed for maximum f…
Milan Design Week is back bigger and more ambitious than ever, and 2022 is a very special year. Designboom, Architonic, and ArchDaily which make up DAAily platforms have created for the visitors of Milan Design Week 2022, a unique, storytelling-programmed space - by architects an…
When cities grow, fuelled by an expanding population, housing becomes an essential component of the urban character of a metropolis. Across the world, housing experiments have been propagated by governments and states, with mixed results, and undoubtedly mixed opinions. The Sovie…
Situated amongst tall redwoods scarred from recent forest fires, perched on the side of Mount Veeder, the dwelling is nestled into the hillside overlooking Yountville and Stags Leap. The outpost is traditionally a small camp positioned at the edge of the country or known parts of…
At the touch of a button, the entire window front magically sinks into the ground, merging the interior with the exterior. This is the effect of the air-lux descending window, which acts not just as a glass front, but a highlight all year round that blends the indoors with the ou…
Olson Kundig has announced the opening of its new Bob Dylan Center, a warehouse-turned-museum that gives visitors exclusive access to the cultural treasures found in The Bob Dylan Archive®. Led by design principal Alan Maskin, the center showcases Bob Dylan's worldwide cultural s…
“Home is no longer a dwelling but the untold story of a life being lived” John Berger.
Syrian architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Ghassan Jansiz bring an Arabic-inspired architectural element to the seafront of Hove as part of this year’s Brighton Festival. The temporary pavilion is built in the shape of the traditional arcade called The Riwaq. Conceived as a place tha…
The concept of aesthetics goes back to the Greek civilization and refers to perception through the senses. Despite being a philosophical concept, in architecture, aesthetics is used to translate architectural ideologies and concepts from the set of constructive elements, forms an…
After a prolonged period known as the Middle-Ages, a growing desire to both study and mimic nature itself began to emerge, with an inclination to discover and explore the world. Between 1400-1600 A.D. Europe was to witness a significant revival of the fine arts, painting, sculptu…
The municipality of St-Élie-de-Caxton has teamed up with the firm Agence Spatiale for the design and implementation of a courtyard to host various artistic and cultural performances in the Nature and Culture Park. The place encourages meetings and gatherings while honoring the i…
The site is located near the Laguna del Sauce, Maldonado, and had an abandoned construction that was previously used for the storage of forage and field tools. The construction had been executed in traditional construction and although it was in disuse, a large part of its struct…
“Good design deserves great recognition”. This statement encapsulates the A'Design Award and Competition, an award for designers, innovators and companies that wish to stand out and attract the attention of the media, editors and buyers. These aspects are especially important in…
Perched on the edge of town, along a buffer of potato farmlands, is a residence, Shoonya (meaning zero) designed for a young family. The brief was to design a house that would naturally withstand the harsh climate conditions of northern Gujarat and create various scales of openne…
As this is a gymnasium of a high school affiliated with a leading private university in Japan, its design concept flows from how it should be portrayed as an educational facility. Generally speaking, gym windows are covered with blackout curtains when competitions are held. With…
An enormous monument to the Communist Party in Bulgaria is now a decrepit ruin. The country is wrestling with how to deal with a symbol of an unwanted and, in many ways, deeply ugly past.
Argentinian studio Set Ideas has completed two small cabins in Córdoba that aim to offer high-quality living spaces within a tight footprint. Encompassing only 40 square metres, the TINY_MOD cabins – which stands for Tiny Module – were completed in 2021. The small, black cabins…
My friend Andras Kaldor, who has died aged 83, was an architect, writer, artist and gallery owner in Dartmouth, Devon. A refugee from Hungary, he was steeped in both western and eastern European tradition.Andras was born and raised in Budapest, son of Margit (nee Gazdag) and Andr…
Scallop shells decorate the rubber-painted exterior of The Pottering Shed, an artist's studio overlooking Poole Harbour in England by architecture practice Studio Mutt. The 30-square-metre studio was informed by the design of ships, with a ceiling structure designed to evoke an…
Luciano Basso has completed a concrete home in the forests of southern Brazil that is built around a mature Paraná pine tree. The project was commissioned by a young couple, who wanted a home that would integrate harmoniously with the area's surrounding vegetation. The 240 squar…
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 Eating & Drinking Spaces. T…
Architecture studio De Matos Ryan has created a treeless treehouse named Penfold in the garden of a London home, with a pyramidal timber structure that is accessible only by crawling beneath it. Named after a character in Danger Mouse, the favourite cartoon of the client's child…
A new Silicon Valley startup is taking the charge put forth by the recent expansion of ADUs and other non-traditional forms of accommodation in the uphill battle to provide affordable housing to the millions of Californians struggling to find a way forward. Business Insider recen…
The College of Fellows at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named a quartet of faculty members from Northeastern University as the winners of the 2022 Latrobe Prize.Titled “CommonSENSES: Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society,” the proposal w…
A Texas-based, non-profit by the name of Transform 1012 N. Main Street (Transform 1012) has announced the purchase of a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. It will be converted into The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing, a new cultural hub and spac…
Architecture studio Perkins&Will has used prefabricated components and mass timber to create a series of A-framed cabins and a dining hall at a California campground that was partly destroyed by fire. Camp Lakota is located in the mountain community of Frazier Park, which lies a…
Innovative Thai practice all(zone) has been named the winner of Australia’s coveted annual MPavilion commission, now in its ninth iteration coming out of a two-year pandemic hiatus. The Bangkok-based studio will reveal its design for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens site in Jul…
Earlier this week, we explored the relationship between architecture and construction science disciplines through the lens of a Building Scientist position at Payette. While the two fields are commonly intertwined within professional practice settings, they are also being impleme…
The total number of short-term rentals of entire homes in the city’s five boroughs -- those listed on Airbnb Inc. and Expedia Group Inc.’s Vrbo -- is more than 13,000, according to third-party data tracker AirDNA. Meanwhile, rental inventory in Manhattan, Brooklyn and a portion o…
Barcelona has become the latest city to begin construction on a digital twin of itself. Currently in a test phase, the data-driven replica of the city is expected to be operational by 2027, at which point it will be used as an urban planning tool to shape the city’s future develo…
Three Housing Innovators Awarded the 2022 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability
Custom Home Building Records Year-Over-Year Growth in Q1
Virginia Master Plan Introduces New Age-Qualified Community, Cascades at Embrey Mill
If you are looking for new career opportunities at Chicago-based architectural, interior, or landscape design firms, check out our curated selection of featured employers from Archinect Jobs. To look up specific job titles from the architectural profession, consult Archinect's Gu…
The soccer teams that share the San Siro, which has hosted two World Cups and four European finals, want to replace it with a more modern arena. Not everyone is ready to see it go.
Pitsou Kedem Architects has completed a private spa in Herzliya, Israel, which is lined with glazed walls and designed so that its owners feel like they are on a vacation without needing to leave home. The client for the project asked Tel Aviv studio Pitsou Kedem Architects to d…
Are you not able to decide on the best way to protect the exterior of your newly built house? You might have already considered applying a few coats of protective paint, but that won’t be enough to protect your walls from weathering in the long term. What you’ll need is exterior…
Continuing our series on deconstructivism we look at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, one of the architect Daniel Libeskind's first completed projects. The zigzagging, titanium-zinc-clad building was the winner of an anonymous competition held in 1988 for an extension to the origina…
Dezeen's deconstructivism series has overlooked the role publisher and editor Dr Andreas Papadakis played in defining the movement, according to his daughter Alexandra Papadakis. I was surprised to read Owen Hopkins' introduction to Dezeen's series on deconstructivism to find no…
London studio Archmongers' practical and playful refurbishment of a home on Dulwich Estate was named the winner of the 2022 Don't Move, Improve! competition. Little Brownings was named the overall winner of this year's Don't Move, Improve! – an annual award organised by New Lond…
Keyboards aren’t a one-size-fits-all device, and gaming keyboards require even greater personalization. Thus, when playing an important game, you should have the right keyboard on hand since that can make a huge difference in the results. The ideal mechanical keyboard will incor…
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London’s proposed Camden Highline has been submitted for planning. Led by the practice behind the New York High Line, James Corner Field Operations, and Camden-based firm vPPR Architects, the project will regenerate a disused railway viaduct to establish an elevated park that con…
The apartment signs of L.A. announce location through flair, decadence, strangeness, absurdity, signification. When you see an otherwise unremarkable name affixed to a building in your neighborhood, you know — probably to the exact number of paces or miles, if you counted — how m…
Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces By Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffrey S. Anderson | Actar | $40 Contradicting Le Corbusier, many architectural thinkers [...] Read More... The post Eight years after its first appearance at…
Architect Rafael Pardo has completed a towering apartment block in Veracruz, Mexico, using concrete pigmented with minerals from the site. The six-storey building on a steep slope in Coatepec, a municipality of Veracruz with rolling hills and mesophilic forest, contains four apa…
New London Architecture has announced the winner of this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! design competition. Archmongers’ Little Brownings project was named the Home of the Year out of a 15-entry shortlist that included designs from Turner Architects, Proctor & Shaw, and Allford Hall…
The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features plans for Miami's first supertall skyscraper. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now! Sieger Suarez Architects and Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott have designed Miami's first supertall skyscraper for hotel brand Waldorf Astoria. It will have 1…
Nearly two years after its former director Eva Franch I Gilbert was dismissed amid a fog of controversy, the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture has announced the selection of [...] Read More... The post Ingrid Schroder selected to lead London’s Architectural As…
London’s Architectural Association (AA) has named a new leader in its search to replace ousted former director Eva Franch i Gilabert. Dr. Ingrid Schroder is the new head of the AA beating out Berkeley CED professor emerita Jill Stoner, Clancy Moore director Andrew Clancy, and two…
The latest in a lineage of corporate headquarters designs that dates to 1965 is officially underway in China’s Hunan Province, the product of a multi-year collaboration between HENN and the heavy manufacturing giant Zoomlion. The Z-shaped design includes a museum, data center, an…
As creative professionals, architects are prone to procrastination. In his acclaimed book The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield breaks down the many reasons why procrastination is a prevalent part in the creative process. “Procrastination is the most common manifestation of [c…
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) opened in 1877 on a barren stretch just opposite Manhattan’s Central Park and has since grown into a 15-building campus of divergent typologies [...] Read More... The post Studio Gang’s Gilder Center undulates with elegant shotcrete a…
Existing Home Sales Slide for Third Consecutive Month in April
London's Architectural Association has named the British-American architect and academic Ingrid Schroder as its new director, making her the second woman to ever hold the post. Schroder was selected as director by Architectural Association (AA) today from a shortlist of five app…
Ponds, palm trees and sunken seating areas interrupt the gridded layout of the Al Naseej Textile Factory in Bahrain, which Leopold Banchini Architects designed to incorporate traditional building methods. Geneva studio Leopold Banchini Architects created the textile factory and…
We continue our deconstructivist architecture series with a profile of Daniel Libeskind who designed one of the movement's most evocative buildings, the Jewish Museum Berlin. You know, we shouldn't be comfortable in this world, Polish-American architect Libeskind once told an au…
Bangkok architecture studio All(zone) has been revealed as the next practice to design Melbourne's MPavilion, an annual architecture commission similar to London's Serpentine Pavilion. All(zone) will become the ninth designer to create a pavilion for the prestigious annual commi…
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for a national concert hall in Prague that features protruding angular colonnades, which double as large balconies. Named the Vltava Philharmonic Hall, the venue will be built on the bank of the Vltava river in central Prague. It…
From a giant Gulliver in Spain to a sleek basking whale in Budapest, readers tip 10 destinations with stunning contemporary buildingsThe Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, northern Norway (a couple of hours by boat from Bodø), is dedicated to Norway’s most famous novelist, Knut Hamsun (18…
Roofs made from living trees and floating houses on reed islands are among the urban planning concepts developed by engineering studio Buro Happold in collaboration with indigenous communities as part of an installation called Symbiocene. The project, commissioned for the exhibi…
Decades of disrepair reversed at Marble Hill, home built on the Thames for king’s mistress and court society figure“There is a greater court now at Marble Hill than at Kensington,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote in 1735. Now, the historic Georgian villa in west London belonging to…
Wildfires are becoming an increasing threat to American homeowners with the acceleration of climate change, and now a new tool from the nonprofit First Street Foundation will allow them to access probability-based data about the potential risk their property may face over the nex…
The large museum commission is one of the most coveted project types for architects to pursue professionally. The past year alone was further evidence of this age-old ambition, with major cultural sector stories gracing our pages frequently, spearheaded by the new M+ Museum by He…
Architect, educator, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners co-founder Billie Tsien is set to receive an Honorary Doctorate and deliver the commencement speech at the Boston Architectural College’s (BAC) graduation ceremony on Friday, May 27th. “It is an immense pri…
The man of the hour wasn’t present but some of his biggest admirers turned out this week as the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, welcomed its newest attraction, the $10 million [...] Read More... The post Olson Kundig transforms Tulsa warehouse into museum devoted to the life and work Bo…
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has triumphed in an international design competition seeking proposals for Prague’s future Vltava Philharmonic Hall. When completed (more on that in a bit), the roughly 535,000-square-foot [...] Read More... The post BIG wins international competition fo…
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Otis College of Art and Design has received a significant donation that will allow for the payment of student loans of students in the graduating Class of 2022. The money comes from Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife Miranda Kerr, KORA Organics CEO and model, through their p…
David Chipperfield Architects is celebrating the recent completion of their Morland Mixité Capitale project in Paris following six years of construction on a ‘Reinventing Paris’ scheme first announced by developer Emerige in 2016. The firm’s Berlin office, in collaboration with C…
BIG has been announced as the winner of a global competition to design the new Vltava Philharmonic Hall in Prague. The firm beat out proposals by SANAA, David Chipperfield Architects, Snøhetta, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and other international studios for w…
In Wolof, a spoken language in Senegal, Bët-bi means “the eye.” Starting in 2025, Bët-bi will also refer to a new museum and community center realized near the historic market [...] Read More... The post Mariam Issoufou Kamara to design upcoming museum and cultural center in Sene…
Architecture studio Morphosis has designed a performance hall and two art museums for a new cultural district called Athenæum at a Dallas university. The district – officially called the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr Athenæum – will encompass 12 acres (4.9 hectares) on the main c…