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A highly respected faculty member and administrator in Mississippi State’s Department of Art has been named the new dean of the university’s College of Architecture, Art and Design [...]. Effective July 1, Professor Angi Elsea Bourgeois will lead CAAD after serving nearly two ye…
A look at the relationship between sprawl and climate change mitigation in the fast-growing North Carolina city.
Architect title protected in UK and John Priestley was last registered in 2010 The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster has sacked its expert architectural witness after it emerged he was not a registered architect. Related: Grenfell inquiry: fire brigade report shows…
The city that never sleeps depends on 396,572 street lights. As bright white LEDs replace the familiar amber glow, what does tomorrow (night) hold?
Netted balustrades, a tiled studio-cum-playroom and roof lights all feature in this renovated and extended Brooklyn home, designed by VonDalwig Architecture. The local firm overhauled the three-storey family residence in the borough's Park Slope neighbourhood. The Extended Townh…
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 eve…
President Donald Trump rescinded environmental protections put in place by former President Barack Obama after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
After many dedicated years to the practice, experience builds seniority. Whether an intermediate employee looking to take it up a notch or an existing higher up seeking a new challenge, here are some excellent opportunities to take advantage of. If you have the background and th…
A social-housing apartment that stood empty for five years is becoming a family home again, after being refurbished for a Venice Architecture Biennale show. The Unfolding Pavilion was a week-long exhibition inside a triplex flat in the Giudecca Social Housing Complex, which was…
While some speakers directly discussed issues of diversity in the profession, Adjaye addressed the topic through the lens of his work.
Looking for signs of the growth of urban agricultural as a viable industry?
Architectural print studio Desplans in collaboration with Library Illustrazioni have published the results of their architectural drawing competition titled “The Island: Between Utopia and Metaphor for Reality.” The competition asked participants to submit drawings and text inter…
The Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge has produced nine designs to address sea-level rise and flooding around the San Francisco Bay Area.
An architect finishes the dream home that had his Connecticut neighbors up in arms, and they discover it is not as bad as they feared.
Nestled into a second growth cedar forest on a 10 acre Whidbey Island parcel, this project consists of two artist’s studios, a house and a garage. These buildings are carefully arrayed around the site’s high point, each focused outward toward a distinct view of the adjacent cedar…
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 Archi…
Not all bike routes are created equal; some are just mellower.
An expert witness who claimed to be an architect but had not been on the ARB register since 2010 has been removed from his role on the Grenfell fire inquiry
A home in an old gin distillery, a house that cost only £100,000, and a property inspired by a frustrating piano piece are among the 20 buildings vying be named RIBA House of the Year 2018. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has released a longlist of 20 projects f…
Snøhetta has released images of its proposed sustainable data center concept, named “The Spark.” The project seeks to address the typical high-energy-consuming typology of the data center, transforming it into an “energy-producing resource for communities to generate their own po…
This is another one of those funny articles, in that it's satire about a tragic state of affairs.
The RIBA has named four finalists in its contest for a major £4.5 million overhaul and expansion of the Grade I-listed Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire in Wales
The guiding idea of the project arises from the specific need of the chef Fernando Zarate to create a place to host his cooking studio in which to experiment with ingredients, techniques and technology to present his guests with unique dishes.
As founder of the “Do Tank” firm ELEMENTAL, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena (born on June 22, 1967) is perhaps the most socially-engaged architect to receive the Pritzker Prize. Far from the usual aesthetically driven approach, Aravena explains that “We don’t think of ourselv…
Students from ETH Zurich have pioneered a method of casting complex, one-off architectural structures from metal in 3D-printed moulds. Deep Facade, a six-metre-high aluminium structure with ribbons of metal looped in an organic fashion that recalls the folds of the brain's cereb…
Wood as a building material is experiencing a bit of a renaissance. Though elemental and deceivingly simple, applied technology has transformed the building material. If you have questions about how to choose and use wood, Think Wood's mission is to provide access to the expandin…
Thanks to their loud, brash, and nocturnal nature, rock concerts are often held in dark bars and nightclubs designed to withstand the abuse of rowdy fans and guitar-smashing rockers. But as musicians earn a following, they eventually graduate from beer-soaked basements to prestig…
Glasgow City Council has urged people to stay away from the fire-ravaged Mac building amid fears its walls could fall ‘without warning’
Atelier Chang has designed a sequence of brightly coloured tents for the SJCC Glamping Resort to offer tourists a luxury camping experience on a cypress-covered mountain near the South Korean city of Suncheon. The 16 brightly pods are oriented to enjoy views over the Suncheon Ec…
Situated in a 27,000 sqm lot, within a small gated community of 8 lots, this project has the premise of striking a balance between integrating the neighborhood and the maintenance of the dwellers’ privacy. For this reason, a courtyard connects the 3 blocks that constitute the pla…
Toronto-based photographer Ruta Krau has captured stunning photographs of the Andrews Building, one of Canada’s most noted brutalist buildings, and a celebrated part of Toronto's concrete architecture. Designed by John Andrews, architect of Toronto’s iconic CN Tower, the Andrews…
The idea of a total work of art - Gesamtkunstwerk - guided several schools and movements in the 19th century, including the Bauhaus, which brought the term into the modern era. With the school's unstructured architecture and avant-garde furniture design came new ways of designing…
The canopy with impressive overhang (a 16-metre cantilever supporting two floors) is the most eye-catching feature of the Zuidblok building on Amsterdam’s Stadionplein. The cantilever was originally proposed by OMA as a spatial solution to the impasse between the city council and…
Villa stands at the corner of huge, deep floodplain forest close to Prague. Our clients picked awesome place, in the middle of the woods, situated close to very old village, which was historically used as source of workers for emperor forests.
Wife and husband pair Alison (22 June 1928 – 16 August 1993) and Peter Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) formed a partnership that led British Brutalism through the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning with a vocabulary of stripped down modernism, the pair we…
Vex is a unique architecture/sound collaboration. It is an in situ concrete house which arose out of the collaboration between musician Robin Rimbaud (known as ‘Scanner') and architects Chance de Silva.
The installation by Sauerbruch Hutton at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, is a small space enclosed by a timber framework placed amongst the monumental structure of the Corderie. Wh…
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, coverage, we present the completed Lebanese Pavilion. To read the initial proposal, refer to our previously published post Lebanon Pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale To Reflect on The Built Environment Through a Reflection…
Something of an outsider architect, Fujimoto has never worked for another practice, which perhaps explains his firmly original approach. “I was scared of being rejected,” he says. “And if I had gone to work for another architect, they might have overpowered me because I was so e…
Seeking harmony with the surrounding environment, the entrances of the Cosmology Centre extend outward from a cross-shaped axis. The plaza on the eastern side reaches into the existing banyan tree park.
Fed by the client’s desire to create the best Pinot Noir and Riesling gravity-fed winery in the world, Olson Kundig have created Martin’s Lane Winery in Canada
A ‘new piece of London’ is being created in Hackney Wick
Benoy has won the international competition to design INCITY MEGA for SCPG in Wenzhou, China
This renovation project includes a café on the last floor and the roof top of a 7th floor middle-rise concrete building located in the city center of Vinh city in the middle north of Vietnam.
The first [journal] came out in 2016 and focused on the countryside and the movement of borders. The most recent, the fourth, titled Dark Matter, is about the invisible and illegal aspects of migration. One feature Christoph shows is a photo essay by Javier Corso, documenting th…
This resort complex is located in Amami Oshima, TEKUTO’S chief architect Yasuhiro Yamashita’s birth place, the largest island of the Amami archipelago halfway between Okinawa and southern Kyushu. A subtropical island with 60 thousand residents, awaiting the UNESCO World Natural H…
More details on Ford's adaptive reuse of Michigan Central Station reveal that Snøhetta has been commissioned as the lead designer as part of Ford's $1 billion capital improvements project. Tasked with re-envisioning the company's Headquarters and Research Campus in Dearborn, Mic…
Mayor Jim Kenney could still veto the bill.
The longlist for the 2018 House of the Year Award, UK's most prestigious award for housing design, has been revealed. From a former gin distillery restored into a contemporary family home to a country cottage converted from a farm shed, this year's longlist features 20 stunning…
The 2018 RIBA Awards cycle continues! Today, RIBA announced the 49 winners for the 2018 National Awards, which distinguish recent projects that set the standard for outstanding architecture across the UK. Advancing from the RIBA London Awards, the National Award winners — which…
We want this space look organic and changeable, and also creative, not like a traditional photography studio. We use the metabolism architectural concept in the idea of design, to make this place more nature, more humanity, and with unpredictable changes.
Soaring land values are leaving an indelible mark on the building stock of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Virtual tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's properties will be available online through Leica Geosystems partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. With technology services from Multivista and Matterport, detailed experiences of the architect's iconic works can be explored fr…
The NCARB has recently released new data outlining the current state of diversity within the architecture field. The results show that while diversity among licensure candidates is improving, the rate at which non-white individuals are discontinuing their pursuit of licensure re…
Two years after winning the international architectural competition (the late Zaha Hadid's first posthumous win at the time), the ZHA-designed Sberbank Technopark project has been granted planning permission. The elegantly curved technology hub for one of Russia's biggest banks…
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is tackling a redesign of the bus system serving the city of Philadelphia.
American counties and municipalities alone have nearly 93,000 different building codes. If you are an architect, that can be an overwhelming amount of requirements to navigate, which is why Upcodes has been working on what it describes as a 'spellcheck' for construction. Starte…
Architecture firm billings grew in May, marking the eighth consecutive month of solid growth, according to a new report today from The American Institute of Architects (AIA). Overall, the AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for May was 52.8 [...]. The ABI also indicate…
Prominent local and international figures in the profession show up to support the designation process.
A proposal, put forth by Frances Halsband, FAIA, to update the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, passed with a near-unanimous vote.
Eight site-specific sculptures by Maren Hassinger unify the park and the surrounding community.
Docomomo France has published an open letter protesting insensitive redevelopment plans to build a 315-foot-high tower bang on top of Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods precocious example of hi-tech Modernism.
Whether you want a place where your kids can have some splashy splashy fun, a place where you and your friends can hang out until sunrise or just a cozy spot to relax and sip from a mojito after a hard day, then it’s time you started your very own pool construction project. Synon…
Feuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views: ‘spite buildings’ are our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks and mortar. Here are some of the best/worst “Spite buildings” are constructions specifically intended to irritate or protest: our smallest hu…
Following previous iterations at many major architectural and design festivals around the world, the exhibition “Poetic Structure: Art + Engineering + Architecture” will soon be open at the MAK Center Schindler House in West Hollywood, California starting June 30. Showcasing the…
The Architecture Lobby and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility have issued a joint statement condemning the Justice Department's widely criticized zero-tolerance immigration enforcement policy that has led to the separation of thousands of children from their…
The 262,000 square metre Sberbank Technopark is set to become a cradle of IT innovation
As the UK’s exit from the European Union approaches several UK-based architecture firms are expressing their concerns
Yesterday, Ford Motor Company announced its long-rumored plan to buy the abandoned Michigan Central Station and restore it as hub for its future mobility ventures. The news quickly created a sense of awe across metro Detroit. [...] On Tuesday morning, Ford laid out the details a…
The 1.26-million-square-foot project, which would rise at the northwest corner of 4th and Hill Streets in Downtown Los Angeles, will feature 120 condos, 450 apartments, 480 hotel rooms, a 45,000-square-foot charter school, and 50,000 square feet of commercial space, according to…
An upcoming exhibition, titled Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America, will dive into the fascinating intersections of play and modern design, exploring how the concept of playfulness influenced postwar American design. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, a number of developments,…
Lower Manhattan could be the first to test out an innovative system that is being proposed as a way to protect cities from rising sea levels and future storms. Called “Humanhattan 2050,” a visionary idea from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) that’s on view in the 2018 Venice Architectu…
MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group has invented a new way to 3D print any object, regardless of how complex it is, with color and shape as detailed as a photograph. It’s the equivalent of traditional CMYK printing, but in 3D. The results are stunning.MIT Media Lab has come up…
In a new statement, Kapoor claimed that it was the “solidarity and support” of the public that encouraged him to take action against the NRA, and urged everyone “to stand up to the dark and aggressive forces in society that seek, out of fear and hatred, to lead us backward into…
The Rill near London Bridge falls victim to health and safety for people on phones No ball games, no busking, no protests – and now no stream. The More London estate, which covers 13 acres of the the south bank of the Thames, providing a home for City Hall, has always been an ap…
Few exhibitions at the Architecture Biennale go as far as the Cruising Pavilion, a scrappy show devoted to the culture of casual sex.
From a washing-up scourer to a pile of crisps, the Japanese architect draws on the most unlikely everyday objects – while testing the idea of privacy with a glass-walled public toilet A cloud of white blocks leaps from a plinth, hanging in the air like an explosion in a sugar cu…
Breakwater, Plymouth: A boat trip three miles out into the sound to visit this 19th-century engineering feat designed to provide safe anchorage for the Channel fleet Tide and calm weather permit a pre-booked landing on the breakwater, built between 1812 and 1840 to provide safe…
Head over to the Museum of Modern Art to see all the finalist proposals of the 2018 Young Architects Program. The yearly YAP competition challenges emerging architects to design an innovative, temporary outdoor installation that provides shade, seating, and water, and takes sust…
A unique and characterful mixed use building has been created by SPPARC at the heart of the Kensington Conservation Area in London
The property developer Olav de Linde and C.F. Møller Architects have published plans for a 144-metre tall office building close to the Port of Aarhus
Progress on the second highest tower in the Hudson Yards mega-development has reached a milestone. 35 Hudson Yards has officially topped out at 1,009 feet. Now that it has reached that height, it is the ninth tallest structure in New York City and 19th tallest in the United Stat…
Photogenic is probably not the first word that comes to mind upon hearing the phrase “public restroom”. But the Instagram account toilets_a_go_go by Tokyo-based photographer Hidefumi Nakamura proves that public toilets shouldn't have to look bland and gross. Since starting the…
Dulwich Picture Gallery and the London Festival of Architecture have unveiled the six shortlisted projects for the 2019 Dulwich Pavilion, to be built next summer within the historic grounds of the Sir John Soane-designed South London art gallery. The initiative—which follows the…
The UK’s largest practice, Foster + Partners, says it would consider moving its headquarters from London if Brexit meant it could no longer attract the world’s best architects [...] Less than a quarter of the architects based at Foster + Partners’ huge Battersea head office are…
The Glasgow School of Art was a masterpiece, but promises to build a reproduction are premature The gutting by fire of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a huge loss to Scotland and the world. The highly distinctive structure, completed in 1909, was Charles Rennie Ma…
With construction officially underway and sales launching at 130 William Street later this month, it’s time to take a closer look inside the 800-foot skyscraper designed by David Adjaye. Interiors at the 66-story Financial District condo tower contain luxurious finishes made of…
For many new architecture school graduates, it's on to the next big step: Landing your first professional job. Architecture learning platform Black Spectacles teamed up with the American Institute of Architecture Students to create “How To Get A Job In Architecture”, a step-by-s…
Tariffs Score One Over Builder Sentiment in Trade Conflict's First Round
Thomas Piper’s film is a loving, reverential work that tags along with Oudolf for a year, from one fall to the next, capturing a man with a boundless wonder for the world’s flora.
Single-Family Rental Companies Are Cozying Up to Home Builders
Ideas about what to do with the charred remains of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s range from restoration to a building ‘fit for the 21st century’ The smoke has barely cleared over the blackened carcass of the Glasgow School of Art, which was gutted by a fire on Friday night, but th…
This week, as the London Festival of Architecture surges on, explore the impact of architecture on medical facilities, see the work of the next generation of architects, or visit an interpretation of the primitive HUT for the modern age. Make sure you go along to 'Don't Move Imp…
The fresh damage to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, an architectural jewel, has left alumni filled with grief and anger.
The 110-year-old building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which suffered significant damage in a previous fire four years ago, was in the midst of a $46-million renovation.
A new film documenting the design of the Met Opera’s current home in New York City also offers an incisive discussion of postwar urbanism.
Most people spend a majority of their time at their workplace. For these people, every office is pretty much the same thing – desks, cubicles, conference rooms, break room, and everything else in there. But that does not mean that all office spaces are the same. Very few people a…
In Multifamily, Bigger is Better
Glasgow North East MP calls for radical action to protect city’s Victorian architecture The city of Glasgow should undertake a “radical and very honest” review of the way it manages its heritage buildings after the fire that gutted the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building…
Purcell has completed £3.1m of repairs on the 1970’s church since May 2015