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Following last week’s look at an opening for an Engagement Coordinator at The New York Review of Architecture, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for the Architecture Program Chair at the University of Michi…
‘Arrested Mobility:’ How Transportation-Related Laws Impact Black Americans Diana Ionescu Wed, 03/29/2023 - 11:00 Primary Image An extensive new analysis of laws that impact vulnerable road users identifies “policies that evidence shows are being enforced in a racially discrimina…
Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Named Casa Mateo, Zozaya Arquitectos (ZAR) completed the 488-square metre residence in Zihuatanejo in 2022. The home is located on one of the…
California Attorney General Wants to Get Serious About Housing Diana Ionescu Wed, 03/29/2023 - 10:00 Primary Image California’s Attorney General is asking the state legislature to empower his office to more strictly enforce state housing laws, which many California cities have be…
A city official in San Francisco is calling for extensive reports into the integrity of facades in the city’s downtown after a recent storm caused windows from multiple high-rises to be damaged. According to the San Francisco Department of Buildings and Inspections, four building…
Opinion: Free Fares Won’t Solve the Transit Crisis James Brasuell Wed, 03/29/2023 - 09:00 Primary Image An article by David Zipper for Vox provides one of the most detailed accounts yet of the crisis facing public transit because of reduced ridership and revenues coming out of th…
German-based architecture practice von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are named the winners of an international competition to design a new Olympics facility in Wuxi, China. Their concept for the Wuxi Olympic Sports Center took home the top prize and features both a 60,000-seat…
‘Climate-Proof Duluth’ Is Changing James Brasuell Wed, 03/29/2023 - 08:00 Primary Image Debra Kamin shares insight into a recent exploration of the trend of Americans relocating to the Great Lakes Region, exemplified by the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to seek a friendlier climate…
It’s a fact that Africa stands for something that comes from outside. But Africans share something that is 100% there. There is a sense, particularly among the young, that the time has come to define that something on their own terms. There is a sense that it is our time.The woma…
In a recent article in The New York Times, Anna Kodé lamented the blandness of multifamily architecture in the U.S. and posited several theories for this disappointment. The root cause The post Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal? Here’s one reason appeared f…
The generous cantilevered concrete planters over the urban façade offer passersby the view of a truly green cascade. The arched openings on the side facades are glazed with anodized aluminum frames, which further expose the rhythm of the exposed concrete vaulted structure.
Atlanta Housing Targets 10,000 Affordable Units in Five Years James Brasuell Wed, 03/29/2023 - 07:00 Primary Image The Atlanta Housing Authority released a new five-year strategic plan in February, which is organized around six goals to achieve housing affordability: Create or Pr…
D.C. Transit and Roadways Overwhelmed by Cherry Blossom Tourists Diana Ionescu Wed, 03/29/2023 - 06:00 Primary Image Washington, D.C.’s Metro rail system saw its busiest Sunday since 2015 last weekend as visitors swarmed to see the District’s famous cherry trees in bloom and atte…
Lot K3.1 selected for the construction of the Maison companions occupies a central position within the ZAC de la Haute Maison, near the school of Ponts et Chaussées, the school of architecture, the university library, and the student house.
From Archinect's active community of job seekers, firms, and schools, we have picked five featured architectural employers with current openings in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Peruse these opportunities below, and visit Archinect Jobs for the complet…
Whenever you pass a tall building, do you crane your neck to see the top? I always feel a sense of achievement and magnificence when passing by a skyscraper, often heightened by a curiosity to venture inside. But skyscrapers aren’t just showpieces meant to beautify a city. They h…
Foster + Partners, the renowned British architectural firm, is collaborating closely with Petrolina Group on an initial design to revitalize the Larnaca seafront to benefit the city’s current inhabitants, the next generation, and prospective tourists. About two kilometers of oil…
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1976 Novel, “Slapstick or Lonesome No More!” has dubbed New York the “Skyscraper National Park.” It is true that innumerable tall structures – many beautiful- call this city home. However, there are a lot of buildings that don’t pierce the skies but are worthy of…
A mid-century house originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt has undergone a sensitive restoration by architecture studio Coppin Dockray in north London. Named Hampstead House, the 1960s home has been overhauled by Coppin Dockray to transform it into a spacious and…
With offices in Zürich, Barcelona and Majorca, the work of Gus Wüstemann Architects is a constant evolution between matter and context. From the strong heritage of timber and concrete construction in Switzerland, to the blurry boundaries of inside and outside found in Mediterrane…
As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense, said Arup fellow Andrew Lawrence. Timber's natural home is low-rise construction, he told D…
In the historic center of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, the project focuses on the rehabilitation of a devolved building built at the end of the 19th century, transforming it into a single-family dwelling, where historical architectural features are adapted to a contemporary housing real…
As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world's 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre. Compiled using data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban…
A holiday home punctuated by arches in Tulum and a rugged home in Argentina are among the projects in this roundup, which centres on brutalist houses in South and Central America. Although brutalism emerged out of western Europe in the 1950s and 60s, the movement spread to countr…
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Specht Architects' glass pavilion house in the Berkshires and debated a toilet made from wood chips. Specht Architects has designed a residential, symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires, Massachusetts, as a place to showcase…
We’re bringing the world’s most popular approach to home decor—minimalism—back around for another go-around. This time, though, we’re talking about simple yet elegant minimalist bathroom design ideas. Bathrooms requiring clean, practical layouts naturally fit the minimalist aesth…
Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. As Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius convincingly argue in Tower Block, their 1994 book on post-war housing, there has…
When designing their dream home, people usually pay attention to the furniture, choice of bathroom fixtures, roofing, etc. But they often forget about one of the most important design elements – lighting. No matter how you decorate a space, it will only have the desired impact i…
As part of a new initiative of the multidisciplinary laboratory based in Mexico, dérive LAB presents Shared Streets, a project with a focus on urban design that seeks to spatially transform the street so that it is governed by human relations, rather than using traffic control de…
The geometric design and the circular way of energetically performing building that characterizes BLAF is strongly present in this house. The wall structure with a self-supporting facing brick on the outside, a light timber frame on the inside, and filled with biobased dry lime h…
Foster + Partners, working in collaboration with Petrolina Group, has revealed the design of a new master plan to transform the seafront of Larnaca, Cyprus, into a sustainable and enjoyable area for the city residents, future generations, and new visitors. The resort town of Larn…
The pavilion invites people to a close experience with nature, focusing visitors' attention on the water reservoir - views, sounds, and movements. It forces a person to stop, to slow down thanks to the endless view into the treetops, the defined view of the boundless calm water s…
At this year’s International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Australian Institute of Architects will present Unsettling Queenstown. Tackling themes of decolonization, the exhibition is a multi-faceted and multi-sensory installation. Creative directors Anthon…
British studio David Chipperfield Architects has revealed plans for a housing project in Antwerp that will adjoin a 60-tree fruit orchard. Named Boomgaard, the residential project is set to be built in Antwerp's Nieuw Zuid neighbourhood and will contain 54 apartments that sit bes…
Exposed pipes highlighted in architecture are not a novelty. Classics like Centre Pompidou and Sesc Pompeia already adopted infrastructure elements as objects that helped compose the building's aesthetics. Solutions inspired by the industrial architecture of the 50s, urging to re…
It’s true that all trends are circular, and what was once seen as old and outdated becomes new and modern again- in fashion, music, art, and especially architecture. From the mid 20th century, brutalist architecture rose in popularity before reaching its peak in the mid-1970s, wh…
We proudly invite you to the public space/nightclub on the river. We are injecting life into the Vltavska underpass, which lost its transit purpose between Hlavkuv bridge and became a place that citizens of Prague try to avoid while visiting the transport intersection at Vltavska…
The G+D house is located in the Huentelauquen area in Canela, Chile. A coastal desert area that stands out for its arid geography, powerful solar radiation, and prevailing winds.
Playing with the balance between form and function, laminates enable architecture to perform a variety of tasks at the same time, being robust, flame-retardant, stain-resistant and antibacterial. With a wide range of applications in architecture, Egger has developed a range of pr…
Sitting high on the northern headland looking back over picturesque Balmoral Beach (Sydney, Australia) Palm Frond Retreat by Koichi Takada Architects is a dramatic contemporary residence designed to make the most of its sought-after location. The five-bedroom, three-storey home i…
When it comes to construction or designing, it’s important to get the angles right. The greater the accuracy, the more chances of the project standing out. But playing with angles means looking at the project from a different perspective, and for that, you need the right tools. …
I have been thinking about my house for a very long time since I was a teenage boy. Every day, when herding cows through fields, sneaking into the bamboo groves, and wandering around the village,... In my imagination, sometimes my house was the bird nest in the tree and other tim…
The annual USC Architectural Guild honorees were presented during a special gala held last Tuesday, March 21st, from Warner Brothers’ studio in Burbank, California. The school shared: “Each year, the USC Architectural Guild Dinner brings together the largest representation of the…
Twenty-four projects that use wood were recognized this week as part of the WoodWorks 2023 Wood Design Awards. Each year the program celebrates buildings in a range of sectors from The post WoodWorks announces winning projects in its 2023 Wood Design Awards appeared first on The…
Ownership of Manhattan’s iconic Flatiron Building is still up in the air after the surprise winning bidder at last week’s auction failed to follow through on a $19 million deposit that would have guaranteed his sole ownership of the building, which has been vacant for years. Last…
A week ago, New York City mayor Eric Adams participated in a live conversation at The Greene Space about the future of housing in the city. In a targeted exchange The post A public conversation about housing in New York renews discussion of problematic windowless bedrooms appeare…
In order to promote the iterative development of Shenzhen Meilinguan pivot area, Shenzhen Meilinguan Area Urban Design International Consultation is officially launched to collect global intelligence and advanced ideas. Registration is now open to outstanding design institutions…
The Atsugi Forest Environmental Research Center, a training facility owned by Kansei Kogyo, which specializes in the management and cleaning of sewer pipe networks, is in the Morinosato district of Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. We proposed to the client to create a pla…
AECOM has announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide project management consultancy services for the NEOM International Airport in Saudi Arabia. The firm will offer support towards master planning, design, and construction services as well as testing, co…
In 1983, a 12-year-old named Morris (Marty) Hylton III was captivated by the sleek modernist architecture of fellow Kentuckian Paul Rudolph in Sarasota, Florida, during a momentous birthday trip. Exactly The post Toshiko Mori wins inaugural Philip Hanson Hiss Award from Architect…
The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Catherine Seavitt Nordenson will be taking over as the next chair of its Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1st. The current Spitzer School of Architecture professor and director…
Zurich-based firm Appels Architekten has designed an open, simplistic family home in Bavaria, Germany, composed of wooden cubes. Called “House by the Lake,” the home balances privacy and spaces for gathering. As detailed by the architects, this configuration allows residents to…
A new greenway project expected to make over a corridor of the Harlem River between the Bronx and Upper Manhattan was announced recently by New York Mayor Eric Adams, adding an important new cog in his administration’s ‘20-20 Vision Zero’ plan that aims to improve and increase pe…
Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo, including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. Located on the outskirts of Jundiaí, the residential complex had been…
3D printing construction technology startup Mighty Buildings has offered a first look inside their new factory in Monterrey, Mexico. As part of the company’s mission to develop and construct “climate-resilient, carbon-neutral homes near points of need,” the factory is reportedly…
The Richard Rogers-designed Channel 4 headquarters in London, which was recently deemed one of the UK's most-at-risk buildings, has been granted Grade II-listed status. Completed in 1994, the Channel 4 headquarters in central London was given a Grade II-listing as an elegant exam…
The iconic Centre Pompidou has confirmed that it will open a branch in Seoul, South Korea. The new museum, set to open in 2025, will join the center’s existing network of outposts in Shanghai, Malaga, and the French city of Metz. According to Artnews, the new museum will be house…
The previous proposal to help pay for the renovation of the station, which could cost up to $10 billion in state funds, has been shelved.
In recognition of the most innovative uses of mass timber and wood in building projects throughout the United States, WoodWorks has revealed the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Award. The use of mass-produced timber and other sustainable wood sources has skyrocketed over the past…
Indian architecture studio Taliesyn has completed its own office in Bangalore, which features textured walls and earthy materials. Located in southern Bangalore, the office spaces are spread across two buildings – a two-storey studio space and a material library inside a converte…
Located in downtown Portland, the Karl Miller Center, home to Portland State University’s School of Business, is uniquely integrated with the city’s rich network of public spaces and diverse urban uses. But that wasn’t always the case. The original building —a 100,000-square-foot…
Next in our Timber Revolution series is a profile of Mjøstårnet, an 85.4-metre-high tower in Brumunddal, Norway, that was one of the world's first true timber skyscrapers. The 18-storey mixed-use building was named world's tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings…
The longlist for the third annual Davidson Prize has been revealed with concepts across the UK that aim to provide new kinds of home communities that help solve issues of housing insecurity. This year's longlist comprises work by 16 studios created in response to the 2023 theme S…
Taller Mauricio Rocha's fearless, heartfelt, and original extension of Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. The biennial prize, which is awarded by the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architectu…
Window treatments offer one of the easiest ways by which you can update the aesthetic of your home. They are easy to install, are available in multiple textures, patterns, and colors, and in many cases, do not cost much. The only difficulty most people face when selecting a wind…
British studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its plans to redevelop the waterfront of the resort town of Larnaca in Cyprus. The development, designed by Foster + Partners for Cypriot petroleum company Petrolina Group, will replace around two kilometres of oil refineries that wer…
The latest exhibition to grace California’s Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity will focus on an overlooked but important area of the Eameses’ four-decade output — table designs — in a timely showcase that speaks to the breadth of the couple’s legendary problem-solving abilitie…
With more than a dozen projects, the architect Markus Dochantschi of studioMDA is reshaping the state of the art gallery, one historic building at a time.
Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove | By Michael Murphy, with text by Alan Hess | Angel City Press | $50 Cruise down the Strip, and you can’t The post New book celebrates the midcentury modern architectural drawings of Armet Davis Newlove appeared first o…
Disney’s planned “Storyliving” community is gaining traction after the company released an update featuring additional details about their new Cotino project located in Rancho Mirage, 11 miles east of Palm Springs, California. As KTLA reported this weekend, the scheme will come w…
Grimshaw Architects is looking to transform a parking lot in Los Angeles’s Chinatown into a bustling creative hub. 130 West College Street is slated to be a five-story, 233,000-square-foot development The post Grimshaw Architects designs a sustainable and community-oriented offic…
Architecture studio Edmonds International has created a hotel near Playa del Carmen in Mexico that comprises a series of interlocking circular forms embedded in a mangrove forest. Made up of a series of pavilions, the hotel is sited near the Sian Ka'an Reserve on the Yucatán coas…
Architecture is a business. Whether architects openly admit it or not, running an architecture firm works like any other company. Firms—and their founders, leaders, and stakeholders—are beholden to the real-world The post Architects should design their businesses just like they d…
Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Relativity Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Phoenix, Arizona this week where we meet Studio Ma. Founded by Christiana Moss, Christopher Alt, and Dan Hoffman in 2003, the studio has developed a portfol…
Multitalented Nigerian architect, sculptor, and designer Demas Nwoko is named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale in recognition of what curator Lesley Lokko described as the “polyglot nature of his talents and oeuvres and to the rathe…
Cladding made of glass-fibre-reinforced concrete wraps the exterior of a sculptural, mixed-used building that was designed by US firm Handel Architects for a crowded, triangular site. The 12-storey building houses The Line Hotel and a residential portion called Serif, along with…
WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States. A total of 22 projects were selected in ten categories by a jury panel that i…
Florida International University (FIU) has been awarded a grant to develop games that can train individuals for roles in architecture, engineering, and construction. The funding, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will support FIU’s exploration into how institution…
Taller | Mauricio Rocha’s expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico has been named the recipient of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). The project, which expands an The post Anahuacalli Museum expansion by Taller | Mauricio Rocha receives 2023 Mies Crown Hall Am…
Antoni Gaudí is an outstanding Spanish architect born in the mid-19th century. He studied architecture at the Llotja School and the Barcelona Higher School of Architecture and graduated in 1878. Antoni Gaudí isn’t only famous for his Interesting Sagrada Familia; the renowned arch…
Finding ways to make cramped quarters feel more spacious is a common design challenge. While tiny living presents some design difficulties, it also has several advantages. However, before starting a significant makeover or even a minor revamp, avoiding a few basic interior design…
The Museum of Ethnography in Budapest is the center of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. The Museum was created by Marcel Ferencz / Napur Architect and finished in 2022 as part of the Liget Budapest Project, one of Europe’s most noteworthy social an…
Sparse and minimalist interiors define this home in Valencia, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, which sits behind the historic frontage of a large 20th-century residential building. Called The Empty House, the four-bedroom dwelling was designed to be a blank canvas for its ow…
Specialist toilet designer Junko Kobayashi has created a public toilet within a series of weathering steel cylinders as her contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. Set under the Sasazuka Station metro station in central Tokyo, Kobayashi's toilet was designed to be fun and disti…
Mass timber could become a key tool in reducing waste from the construction industry, GXN partner Lasse Lind tells Dezeen in this interview for our Timber Revolution series. GXN was founded in 2007 as the research arm of Copenhagen-based architecture studio 3XN. GXN looks at circ…
Following the death of Rafael Viñoly, directors and employees of his studio are working hard to continue the Uruguayan architect's work, says his son Román Viñoly in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen from his New York office, Román Viñoly, who is a director at Rafael V…
City residents raised £10m to prevent the Carthusian monastery being sold for commercial useIt was 11 years ago when Ian Harrabin, a property developer from Coventry, saw the city’s Charterhouse had been put up for sale. Dating from 1381, it is the only Carthusian monastery in th…
STUDIOS 90 Residential Building’s Concept: The composition of colored cuboids creates this sculptural residential project. The brief for these mid-rise buildings was to create studio apartments, a hostel & a guest house on the perimeter of a housing project for a residential town…
Autodesk has announced the impending release of 3ds Max 2023, an improved version of the company’s 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visualization software. Autodesk claims that in 3ds Max 2023, the emphasis will be on actual time workflows, modern image development, and inc…
Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. The home occupies a verdant site in the Thu Duc district that is often flooded by a nearby rive…
The Ghanaian-Scottish architect is curator of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, and more than half of the participants will be African. The story of architecture we are used to, she says, is incomplete“Africa” says Lesley Lokko, stopping over in a London hotel on the way…
The prime minister says his £120m parliament building will set a new order – critics say the design doesn’t match that ambitionSome time soon the new parliament building of the world’s largest democracy, India, will open for business. No one quite knows when, except perhaps for t…
Designer Miles Pennington and DLX Design Lab of the University of Tokyo have designed a public toilet in Japan that can be used as an exhibition space, cinema, pop-up kiosk, information centre or meeting place. Pennington, who is a professor of design-led innovation at the Univer…
The Windsor framework offers hope for Northern Ireland, yet some, such as Boris Johnson, played with peace and voted against itIt was possible to hope, last Wednesday afternoon, that the toxic idiocy of British politics might recede a little. Even as Boris Johnson spaffed truth a…
Campaigners hope bid to develop site of prison where famous poem was composed may finally succeedThe site of Reading’s former prison has a highly desirable location in the town’s centre and a celebrated history, not least as the setting of Oscar Wilde’s most famous poem, the Ball…
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 Kitchen Spaces. Tip: use th…
Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school, created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. Located in Ulyankulu, a former refugee settlement in the west of the country, Wayair School provides teaching space…
Taller | Mauricio Rocha’s expansion and remodeling of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City was just named the winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize by the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. The $50,000 biennial prize cel…
The fallout from the recent failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is having wide-reaching effects across the country. Take Boston, for example, where advocates for multiple in-progress affordable housing developments are concerned about their future following the bank's collap…