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“We just don’t build houses like we used to.” Whether we’re criticizing an individual home or a wave of boxy buildings, it’s a common lament... It’s a statement that contains some truth, but it also misses crucial context about the material conditions, functionality,…
Today, The Barbican, along with the London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, released images of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed London Centre for Music. DS+R was first announced as lead architect for the project back in 2017, and teamed up with Sh…
“Every child,” lamented Tom Wolfe in From Bauhaus to Our House of 1981, “goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse”. Had there ever been another place on earth, he also said of Bauhaus-influenced…
Feeling a little tl;dr about the Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2019 article published by Planetizen earlier this month?
Developers of what’s posed to be the tallest building in Los Angeles and west of the Mississippi River are moving forward with their plans to transform the site of a Downtown hotel into a glittering 77-story hotel and condo tower. [...] The neighborhood council’s approval, i…
It's time for another Archinect Employer of the Day weekly round-up! Check out the latest profiled firms amid the thousands of active listings on our job board. If you don't already, follow Employer of the Day on Facebook, where we showcase a firm every day, along with a gall…
The $370-million concert hall will be located at the southern tip of the Barbican complex on the site of the Museum of London, which is moving to a new home designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan.
Roof decks are increasingly a Big Thing in Denver — as they should be in a city so warm and sunny — and the Denver Art Museum is getting in on them.Ashley Dean reports in from a recent presentation Denver Art Museum Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer, gave on the No…
A new online tool allows cities to measure progress in providing access to alternative forms of transportation.
Olion Kindergarten, formerly a disused community service center on Baoju Road in Baoshan District, locates next to a kindergarten and an experimental high school, surrounded with a large number of suburban residences. As one part of the urban background, the external image of thi…
The foundations for what could become Africa’s tallest building, a 390 metre tall tower in Egypt's new administrative capital, will be poured within days, according to the country's prime minister. Iconic Tower is one of several Dubai-style mega projects being built in Egypt…
Voting has ended for your favorite Fall '18 architecture school lecture posters that were previously featured in Archinect's Get Lectured series. The final results are in! Which four posters racked up the most votes? Out of 1,033 responses, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee…
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s timber-and-glass vision for a new Centre for Music in London aims for great heights – but might not exactly reach them Twisting pyramids seem to have become the accepted vernacular for London’s big cultural buildings, as plans for the new £288m…
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro the London Centre for Music at the Barbican will be a concert hall for the 21st century, within a twisted pyramid-shaped tower. Estimated to cost £288 million, the venue for the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of M…
Los Angeles Metro CEO Phil Washington will recommend to his board next Thursday that they pursue a congestion pricing program to reduce traffic congestion, improve transit, and subsidize transit fares in Los Angeles in time for the 2028 Olympics.
We started this project two and a half years ago, in 2016. Initially, the concept of the bakery was the opposite - it was a black brutal loft. In fact, at the moment such brutalism would not surprise anyone. Everyone is accustomed to such interiors.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro have revealed the design for the new London Centre for Music. Made for The Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the first concept designs were released as part of a progress update on plan for the new proposed buildin…
Dutch Architect Aldo van Eyck built the Amsterdam Orphanage in 1960. His design focused on a balance of forces to create both a home and small city on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
The Physics Research Center (PRC) is the new home for theoretical and experimental physics at the University of Chicago. It is an adaptive reuse of an existing midcentury modern research building – including a gut renovation of the majority of the interior space, a completely n…
American firm Matt Fajkus Architecture has added a multi-level extension to a 1930s dwelling in Austin, topped with a roof that looks like a mullet haircut. The project involved the remodel of a rundown 1938 bungalow in the city's Clarksville district. Founded in 1871 by a free…
Under the Trump administration, criminal prosecution of polluters is an historically rare activity.
Cost of 2,000-seat ‘centre of music’ would have to be raised from private donations A new London concert hall, which its supporters believe would be as transformative for classical music as Tate Modern was for the visual arts, has been budgeted at £288m. The cost and first…
Uvence Art + Hotel is a recycling and reuse project that follows a growth strategy building new layers of history. The project revalues and rescues a historic building in Chiapas, Mexico and updates its use, generating a collective benefit for the site and the city. This in…
Diller Scofidio + Renfro founder Liz Diller has said her planned £288 million London concert hall will address some of the connectivity ‘flaws’ of the Barbican Estate and improve its ‘body language’
The four finalists of the inaugural Experimental Architecture Award have been announced, recognising projects that combine real locations with virtual-reality fiction and installations that explore the guts of architecture. Holly Hendry, Chris Hildrey, Lawrence Lek and Pub…
The new “Report on Effects of a Changing Climate to the Department of Defense” isn't the environmental win that it could be.
The world's largest waste-to-energy plant by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Gottlieb Paludan is set to open next year on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China. The new plant is made to handle 5000 tons of waste per day within a simple, clean, and iconic structure. It will incinerate waste…
This work presents architecture as a tool and as a strategy that mediates in social conflicts, rebuilding both the area and the relationships between its users. A multicultural architecture. Melilla is a small Spanish city bordering Morocco located in North Africa. The closing of…
Microsoft has unveiled plans to commit $500 million to advance affordable housing solutions across the city of Seattle, Washington. The money, to be distributed as loans and grants, will kick-start new solutions to the city’s housing crisis, where income increases have lagged b…
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art was China’s first private museum for contemporary art, founded in 2007 at the heart of the 798 art district in Beijing with the aim to bring Chinese art into global dialogue. Following the center’s internal restructuring in 2017, OMA’s renov…
Every site, every house has its strengths and weaknesses. The architect’s purpose is to see the essence of the home through the distraction of its present state. To help the home reveal its authentic self. In this home, the strength emanated from its original architect, Paul…
The 305-metre-tall viewing attraction The Tulip, proposed for the UK capital by Foster + Partners, does not comply with London Plan says city mayor Sadiq Khan. A report published by the Greater London Authority (GLA), and agreed in a letter published by the mayor's office, said…
The first images of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s competition-winning and much-anticipated new concert hall at the Barbican have been revealed
The Glasgow School of Art has rebuffed claims that a high pressure mist suppression system, removed before the Charles Rennie-Mackintosh-designed building was destroyed in a catastrophic fire, was largely intact. The Times reports that a mist suppression system, which was almo…
Last week, we covered the work of Moscow-based visual artist Danila Tkachenko, whose “Monuments” project appropriated abandoned Russian Orthodox churches with abstract modernist shapes. Tkachenko’s further work, “Restricted Areas” is equally as impressive, focusing on t…
The aesthetic of the German art school has influenced everything from typography at airports to iPhones. Here are five key designs • Rowan Moore on 100 years of Bauhaus Continue reading...
The “Loft Branco” (White Loft) is situated in the neighborhood of Morro do Chapéu on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte city. Planned in 2016 this loft has been built as an outbuilding beside the existent house (Casa Viga) as a result of the owner's desire to renovate the exist…
Due to a last-minute rush of entries, we’ve extended the deadline for AJ Small Projects 2019
The London Mayor’s planning team has said it has ’significant concerns’ about the design of Foster + Partners’ proposed 305m-tall Tulip tourist tower
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The values of the house are based in the dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, favoring broad areas that can expand the large terrain.
Luton Borough Council has finally granted consent for a new 23,000-seat ground for the Hatters – but the viability of the project rests on a further planning decision, the club’s boss has warned
IF_DO has wrapped a sixth-form college in Surrey, England, around a courtyard and planted a tree in the centre to connect it too its woodland setting. The London-based practice designed the buildings for St Teresa's School, an independent girls' school in the village of Effing…
Saving space, reducing costs and a pleasant user experience – parking doesn’t get much better than this Cityscapes around the world are changing, architects face the constant challenge of integrating parking space into new or existing real estate in densely built-up urban en…
A new video by AERIAL FUTURES explores commercial space flight through the Houston Spaceport. The video was produced as part of a broader research initiative bringing together leading thinkers, practitioners and operators to imagine the potential opened up by spaceports. The vide…
In the center of Stockholm, behind a couple of large arches, an old space organized on four comparted floors was completely reimagined.
The architecture of a Hollow-RockGeography as originThe preschool is built on the urban limit of Haro. A place without buildings, marked with road lines, announces its immediate apparition. The strong slope delineates and discovers for us the possibility of an architecture of a g…
This is a project of tense duality between vernacular principles and a neoplastic understating of shape, place and landscape.
Inland waterways have capacity to spare to help deal with an expected surge in freight movement around the country. Some TLC will be required to maximize that potential, however.
The city of Philadelphia provides a case study of the so-called Latino Homeless Paradox. There are many more low-income and homeless Latinos than reflected in the numbers of those using supportive services in the city.
Stone patios and gravel terraces slot in between the monolithic concrete blocks that make up this Argentinian house designed by BP Arquitectura. Two concrete volumes are stepped on top of one another to form the 626-square-metre Casa Mq2, which is located on a sloped site in Me…
Something Had to Give for Housing's Market Players: Last Week, Two Things Did
Branding and bus rapid transit go hand in hand.
After a decade of shifting market preferences and an ongoing urban renaissance, how do downtown home prices compare in cities around the country?
New York City's ailing taxi industry is fighting what they call a suicide surcharge, a new $2.50 fee they will be forced to charge riders below 95th Street in Manhattan. Eight drivers have already taken their lives as their business suffers.
VAC Library by Farming Architects is a large wooden climbing frame that uses solar-powered aquaponics to keep vegetables, koi carp and chickens in Hanoi, Vietnam. Farming Architects designed the library and city farm hybrid as a way for children to learn about self-sustaining ec…
As the influential design school turns 100, architects, designers and other creatives talk about how its ideas have shaped their work• Rowan Moore on the enduring appeal of Bauhaus Continue reading...
Sleek, pared-back, industrial elegance – that’s how most of us think of Bauhaus, the modernist design group born in Germany in 1919. But that was only one side of this short-lived but longlasting movement…• Norman Foster, Margaret Howell, Michael Craig-Martin and others…
We've updated our Pinterest board showcasing the best prefabricated homes, including a hutong house that plugs-in to a small Beijing plot and OMA's stacked precast concrete tower. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › The post Imaginative prefabricated homes feature on our Pintere…
Santiago studio Equipo Cazu Zegers took cues from temporary shelters used by lumberjacks when designing this isolated retreat in southern Chile. Casa Lluvia, or Rain House, was designed to give four generations of the same family a place to live together. It is located in the Lo…
Even today, parking garages are typically underused. In the not-too-distant future, car shares, self-driving cars, increased investment in transit, or simple behavioral change could all shift the amount of parking people think they need. And the U.S. also has far more parking th…
Tune in to watch today's architecture symposium hosted by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will include presentations from OMA, MAD, Forensic Architecture and more. The livestream is now over. You can watch the final session of talks above, and the earlier sessions b…
Petr Stolin Architekt has wrapped a double-skinned translucent facade of fibreglass around the Nová Ruda kindergarten in the Czech Republic. The locally based architecture studio designed the educational facility for the town of Liberec with the aim of balancing plentiful o…
Created from sustainable sources by architect Piers Taylor, and parked in a Somerset valley, is a mobile home that’s both in and of the trees Mobile home. It takes just two words to stir up the contradictions in British attitudes to that most basic of needs: where, and how, to…
Moshe Safdie was named the 2019 recipient of the Wolf Prize in architecture, which is awarded every three years. Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation has awarded five or six prizes annually in the scientific fields of agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics. The A…
A city-appointed evaluation committee heard presentations from the architects on Tuesday and Wednesday, yet the city is declining to make public the identities of the committee’s members. Worse, the committee will prepare a report, but that report won’t be made public.The hi…
The post is brought to you by the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Archtiecture Film has the power to bring people together – or tear them apart, spur conversation, and transform ideas. It is in anticipation of this that the School of Archi…
All eyes have been on Long Island City since its partial triumph in Amazon’s urban beauty pageant. [...] Queens native Kris Graves has kept his eye on Long Island City continuously since moving there ten years ago. Photographing what presents itself outside his door in Hunters…
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Join us in celebrating The Blindspot Initiative, the latest book of projects and essays on design resistance and alternative modes of practice edited by Jose Sanchez at Archinect Outpost on Saturday, February 9th, 7-9pm. The evening will begin with a talk by Jose Sanchez and…
Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Spring 2019 It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectu…
Five teams of architects are in the running to redesign Chicago's O'Hare international airport, with Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava among the list of firms participating in the competition. Chicago's Department of Aviation has released images of the five designs for…
Interior Architecture is the design of human experience. When done well, interior design creates a sense of place and purpose, makes health and well-being a priority, and achieves its aims sustainably. To honor this important role interior spaces play in our built environment, t…
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…
Philips recently launched a new global brand identity in the form of sound - their first 'sonic identity.' The unique suite of sounds has been captured entirely from recording the intimate sounds emitted from lightbulbs - Philips' iconic founding product.
The 88-storey skyscraper that architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group designed for Manhattan's Hudson Yards development has officially opened. The 910-foot-tall (277-metre) apartment tower at 15 Hudson Yards is the latest to complete at the vast site on th…
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 favor…
Detroit's Troubled Neighborhoods Showing Signs of a Comeback
Hundreds of chateaux have been abandoned at the Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in central Turkey, after its developer filed for bankruptcy, as shown in this drone footage. Approximately halfway between Turkey's largest city Istanbul and its capital Ankara, the Burj A…
The Creative Industries Federation, Norman Foster and David Chipperfield are among the business leaders to sign a letter calling for a People's Vote – a second referendum over whether the UK should leave the European Union. The federation, which represents over 10,000 member…
TBC Forum by UNStudio is a financial centre under construction in the hills above Tbilisi, Georgia, that aims to be a more positive working environment than traditional bank headquarters. The Dutch studio broke ground on the new headquarters for TBC Bank last month. Based on wor…
There's a reason why Bauhaus architects and designers struggled to forge careers in the UK, says Owen Hatherley in the latest instalment of our Bauhaus 100 series. My only criticism of Mr Moholy-Nagy is that he is a gentleman with a modernistic tendency who produces pastiches o…
Leaving trees in the ground and planting new ones could help future proof new development sites against extreme heat Urban life can be an insulated existence, consisting of circling between one temperature-controlled space after another. But cities are not invulnerable to climat…
CODA Bespoke has created a pair of matching black houses in Sheffield, England, for graphic designer twins Nik and Jon Daughtry. Sheffield-based CODA Bespoke collaborated with the Daughtrys to create the two neighbouring houses, called Twin-build, that share an aesthetic.…
After a three-day meeting in Barcelona, the seven-member jury of the 2019 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award has narrowed down the competition pool from 383 projects to a shortlist of 40. Representing 17 different European countries, t…
If there was any lingering doubt that Brutalism — the architectural style derided for everything the name implies — was back in fashion, the “Atlas of Brutalist Architecture” quashes it with a monumental thump. At 560 pages representing some 878 works of architecture in…
Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Spring 2019 It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectu…
2019 RESNET Building Performance Conference: What to Know and How to Register
Since 2016, the Rotterdam-based research and design studio The New Raw has been experimenting with using plastic waste to create public furniture. Through the 'Print Your City' project—which just launched its first Zero Waste Lab in Thessaloniki, Greece—the firm turns public…
Buildings in Albania, Serbia and Slovakia have been shortlisted for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for the first time. The presence of buildings in new countries with the potential to win Europe's most prestigious prize is proof of the new agenda of architecture in Eur…
On Wednesday, the company announced it is putting $500 million toward addressing the lack of affordable housing in the greater Seattle area.
Renderings and models of each design proposal will be on display at the Chicago Architecture Center through the end of January.
It may have been architecturally acclaimed, but those who taught at Pimlico secondary school found its design anything but practical, says Ian WilsonOliver Wainwright (Eye of the freeholder, G2, 16 January) implies that it was wrong to demolish Pimlico comprehensive school, menti…
The University of Illinois at Chicago announced three finalist architecture teams who will compete to design the school's new Center for the Arts, a project idea first envisioned by UIC's original architects Walter Netsch and his team at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill during the 19…
Today, the University of Notre-Dame announced architect, urbanist, theorist and critic Maurice Culot as the 2019 laureate of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. Established in 2003, the award honors a living architect for their long-term significant contributions to the architec…
As the brutalist Boston City Hall celebrates its 50th birthday, Aaron Betsky reflects on the building's history as a monument to social democracy, and wonders if proposed updates will bring it a happily ever after. Let me tell you a fairytale. There once was an era in which gove…
So you’ve made up your mind, after a lot of thought. You want to get a A1 printer, a big gun! However, the decision to buy a good plotter requires a lot of care and consideration. It’s a major purchase for both first time buyers as well as seasoned experts of photo printing…
A3 printers are a very useful and important addition to the workstations of students and professionals alike. A3 photo printers, however, are a completely different story than regular A3 printers – they’re more expensive, have more comprehensive printing systems and consist…
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