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The city of Minneapolis approved an interim inclusionary zoning measure in December 2018, but very few projects were subject to the policy. Supporters and opponents of the policy are sparring over the policy's future.
After an incredible publicity blitz and well over a year on the market, Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-renowned Ennis House — tucked into the foothills of Los Feliz [...] — has sold for $18 million to an as-yet-unidentified buyer. That number, while significantly below the $23 milli…
An interstate commerce clause is being used to challenge climate change measures and regulations.
On Thursday, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services will unveil an app created by UC Berkeley that will give all Californians who download it on iOS and Android phones the chance to get earthquake early warnings from any corner of the state. Authorities will also…
His writings announced the death of Modernism, and the public spaces he designed were full of adventurous shapes and ideas.
The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris has unveiled plans to expand to a suburban site by creating a new art factory that will both display and conserve the museum's expansive art collections. An architect for the proposal has not been named. The scheme is slated for an existing p…
Snøhetta's new bench design for the United Nations, entitled The Best Weapon after Nelson Mandela's historic adage: the best weapon is to sit down and talk, was commissioned by the Nobel Peace Center and is currently installed at the organization's headquarters in New York City.…
The Pay As You Stay program would lower back taxes for qualifying homeowners and help them avoid foreclosure.
An Arizona house that was the last home designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright before his death sold on Wednesday for nearly $1.7m. Out of nearly 20 bids at a public auction for the Norman Lykes House, the winning bid came from a man who lives out of state, Heritage Auctio…
Clearly, the American love affair with the automobile is far from over, despite lessons from the recession, dire environmental warnings, plummeting traffic safety, or the wishful thinking of tech companies.
Peter Park is the director of Peter J. Park, LLC and a former planning director of Denver and Milwaukee. In this interview, Park shares insights from a career of leadership in though and action in the field of urban planning.
The Campus Diagonal-Besòs forms a compact, carefully designed urban unit, located on a privileged site at the intersection of the streets La Diagonal and La Ronda. It is incorporated into the spectacular and varied development of the public city of the Foro area. The Residents Ha…
The museum is bigger and more demanding, but there’s more fun, and a sense of serendipity.
An email survey of scooter riders in Salt Lake City would seem to make the case for more robust investment in high-quality active transportation infrastructure.
At 74 stories and 421 units, 1000M will be the largest condo tower built in Chicago since the Great Recession decimated the local real estate development industry.
Cornwall’s new archive centre, Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Centre), opened for research visits. Designed and delivered by Purcell, the UK’s leading heritage and conservation architects, the scheme safeguards the historic Redruth Brewery building at the heart of the Cornish Mining Wor…
Last week, Macy’s West Stores, Inc. filed suit against Stockdale, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm that took over the downtown property from Westfield in August 2018. The department store is asking a San Diego Superior Court judge to block the developer’s plan on…
Should there be an extra fee for property owners who tear down an existing single-family home and replace it with a much larger, more expensive single-family home?
For this week's New York employment round-up, we spotlight 9 firms currently looking to hire senior-level architects and designers. In case you missed them, here are our previous job round-ups for junior and intermediate architects. Arquitectonica seeks a Project ManagerIdeal ca…
Montgomery County Texas, 50 Miles North of Houston Getting 850 New Homes
Builder to the Stars Began Career as a Waiter
D.C. Mayor Calls For 36K New Homes
Foster + Partners is to design a ‘landmark redevelopment’ of the 1960s Colechurch House near London Bridge station
Living in an own historic but individually reconstructed house with a garden just several steps away from an underground station is a dream that can come true for really few families with small children.
Subdivisions in states across the country are catering to people who want the benefits of living in homes without the burdens of home ownership.
Mario Cucinella Architects has broken ground on a 16,000 sqm industrial complex in Brazil for Nice, the Italian multinational which is a world leader in the Home Automation, Home Security and Smart Home sector.
Currently, Waymo has started undertaking an extensive mapping activity of having a few of their specially outfitted data-collecting vehicles crisscross the Los Angeles area. These vehicles contain a state-of-the-art barrage of sensory equipment, the idea is to first map out the…
Particular attention was paid to protecting the valuable trees as much as possible and to keep the church the main factor of the ensemble. The new building surrounds the church in a respectful way and opens the new created patio to the existing trees. The courtyard, surrounded by…
De Matos Ryan’s proposals for the overhaul of the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London have been granted planning approval
London mayor Sadiq Khan has raised concerns over the height of a new KPF skyscraper scheme in Ealing, which he says is likely to become the tallest residential building in London
Open More Doors is a section by ArchDaily and the MINI Clubman that takes you behind the scenes of the world’s most innovative offices through exciting video interviews and an exclusive photo gallery featuring each studio’s workspace.
Book your free place now at the launch of AJ Small Projects 2020 – the 25th year of the awards which celebrate big ideas on a small budget
The City of London has appointed emerging practice RUFFarchitects to design an educational space inside the South Tower at Grade I-listed Tower Bridge
In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings - simple, complex, or anything in between - is fundamental for the correct reception of…
RIBA announced the 2020 RIBA International Prize jury and stated that it will be led by French architect and urban planner Odile Decq with the participation of Es Devlin, Jeanne Gang, Rossana Hu, and Gustavo Utrabo.
The Workshop House is set in a flat, rectangular but not regular terrain and belongs to one of the most recognized plastic artists in Yucatan. The work of this artist is characterized by being, in her words, divinely crooked. Imperfection and spontaneity are a characteristic that…
Part of the Mission Rock master plan in San Francisco, MVRDV unveiled their contribution, in partnership with Perry Architects, a 23-story mixed-use building, including offices and residential units. The firm joins other big names like Studio Gang, Henning Larsen, and WORKac in d…
University of South Australia was founded in its current form in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology and the South Australian College of Advanced Education. By transforming the on-campus student experience and enabling access for the surrounding c…
Our readers’ selection of (mostly) urban design masterpieces contrast or harmonise with traditional surroundings With its quirky blob architecture, this gallery is nicknamed the “friendly alien” by locals, and viewed from Schlossberg hill in the city centre, it does look like an…
Dutch design practice Mecanoo has designed a new neighborhood currently under construction in Manchester. Called KAMPUS, the developed is located at the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus in the heart of the city. As a melting pot of buildings and spaces, KAMPUS was…
The Midnight Charette is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by architectural designers David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features a variety of creative professionals in unscripted conversations that allow for thoughtful takes and personal…
Alejandro Zaera-Polo (born October 17th 1963) is an internationally recognized architect and scholar, and founder of London, Zurich, and Princeton-based firm Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). First rising to prominence in the 1980s with his writings for…
High-densityHigh speed and high density have become synonymous with Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city in the sub-tropical coast area. The population and urban density of this hyper-city along the eastern side of the Pearl River Estuary is still booming, even after 40 years of r…
BuckleyGrayYeoman has been involved with design proposals for the former Wickhams department store since 2012. Aware that that this city-fringe neighbourhood would attract renewed interest with the opening of the Elizabeth Line station at Whitechapel, our client (Schroders Real E…
The sloped topography of this site inspired the main concept of the house, to generate different perspectives and realities along with the different levels of the building.
Midcentury home, the last designed before the architect’s death, is nestled on the edge of a mountain preserve An Arizona house that was the last home designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright before his death sold on Wednesday for nearly $1.7m. Out of nearly 20 bids at a pub…
XI House is a project for a couple of young professionals built up from the cross-section and the concept of promenade architectural.
Leeds’ Grand Quarter and Beckford’s tower join list of 5,000 vulnerable sites The Grand Quarter of Leeds, a Georgian tower overlooking Bath, and a group of prefabricated Victorian lighthouses are at risk of being lost forever, according to the agency in charge of preserving Engl…
The birth of the IC PARK benefits from the national integrated circuit development strategy, which aims to build an integrated innovation industrial park of IC industry ecology. The owners expect the industrial park to be built in such a way that it will become a world-class prof…
This week Consultatio Real Estate and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) released renderings for Catalinas Rio, a waterfront office building designed to become the center of activity in Buenos Aires' Catalinas Norte business district expansion. As two adjacent towers, one risi…
Following in the footsteps of New York City, Indianapolis, Portland, and others, San Francisco's Market Street will soon be redesigned for use by buses, pedestrians, and cyclists. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors has unanimously approved the…
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation has moved one step closer to building a permanent presence dedicated to telling the stories of the more than 3,500 recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. After issuing an initial call for interest in August and choosing Arl…
With 282 days to go, the Tokyo 2020 organisers have held a World Press Briefing at some of the venues to show how preparations are progressing Continue reading...
D&AD has launched the briefs for the 2020 D&AD New Blood Awards. As one of the largest competitions for emerging creatives to exercise and showcase their talents on briefs set in partnership with some of the world's leading brands, the design-led briefs have been set by brands in…
A 45-year-old house sandwiched between a park and a farm was renovated as an office and residence. Park and farm / Office and residence / existing and renovation were treated as equally as possible, and we were conscious of designing a residence as a “stage of the story of life…
The Housing Choice Voucher program is intended to provide new opportunities for low-income Americans to live in higher-priced neighborhoods, but few recipients of vouchers are taking full advantage of those opportunities.
The project is located in a high-quality development area in Changsha City. It is close to the main traffic roads of the city, and is also one of the main entrances of the community in the future. Both of the architectural design and the interior design come from Benjai Architect…
Made Thought recently launched a pop-up in London's Seven Dials which acts as a creative playground and experimental space to explore how brands are engaging with new audiences through experimental retail concepts and immersive installations.
Making a building is such a big thing. They impact people for generations and act as massive transfers of information. It’s very profound. You can’t think enough about what the responsibility is.Writing in The Guardian, architect David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates shares his pers…
We all have enemies 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every…
Here again were bare untiled floors and the constant presence of wind and earth. There was a stillness, a permanent air of afternoon and an interior that was magically cooler and airier than the exterior it felt so much at peace with. The site sloped downward, so the house had b…
The ongoing rennovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art will culminate in its opening on Monday October 21, 2019. Installation View of the Marie Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, The Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMAThe expansion was designed by…
LARQ - the world's first self-cleaning reusable water bottle - has unveiled its newest iteration, 'LARQ Bottle Movement.'
Cactus recently completed a new branding project for Parc Mosaic - a mindful apartment community in Boulder with the intent of attracting thoughtful, long-term residents.
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design's 2019 Xlab, the ninth-annual experiential graphic design gathering, will be held in Brooklyn at BRIC for the second consecutive year. This year's theme, 'The Future of Experience & Place,' will explore the increasing value and demand i…
From gigantic rippling mounds of grass inspired by space to thrilling modern henge-scapes, we celebrate the visions of the great landscape artist Charles Jencks obituary Continue reading...
Teardowns Come to College Park Near Orlando
Fischer Homes Launches New Subdivision South of Columbus
Can New ADU Laws in California Solve the Housing Shortage?
It has the world’s finest modern art collection. But now the revered museum is rebalancing its walls – massively boosting work by women and artists of colour • MoMA unveils $450m expansion In his Poetics, Aristotle argued that poetry was a more scientific and serious genre than…
Armed with €10m in EU funding, a consortium of 21 European companies and organisations has formed to try and make timber the material of choice for multi-storey buildings instead of steel and concrete. Their aim over the next four years is to remove barriers to timber constructi…
A collection of new images have been unveiled by the architects at Olson Kundig highlighting the firm's recent restoration and renovations of the Seattle Space Needle. The $100 million revamp made its debut in 2018 and was overseen by Olson Kundig Design Principal Alan Maskin.…
“This moment, the beginning of the 21st century, is a big moment to change the direction — toward sustainability and disaster relief,” he said. “This will continue as the main theme of this century.” Times had changed since the Modernist era: “Those times, people believed that t…
The priority remained on stabilizing the building, two days after the top floors collapsed on one another, sending debris to the street below and killing two people. One worker remained missing, and authorities have said they also want to find him before moving onto an investiga…
The new flagship Museum Store at the MoMA, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, with retail design by Lumsden, will open on October 21 adjacent to the lobby of the Museum.
Baron Fig has today launched Trace, a limited-edition notebook created in collaboration with Adobe Design Evangelist Kyle Webster.
Rashida Ng, chair of the Department of Architecture & Environmental Design at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University has been elected as the new president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for the 2019-2020 year. Professor Ng…
Builders Demand Policy Solutions to Home Affordability Challenges
With WeWork's corporate fortunes up in the air, the entity's umbrella organization, WeCompany, has begun to shake up its various elements and initiatives around the country. In Seattle, for example, a planned development with Martin Selig Real Estate for a 36-story co-working a…
Brooks + Scarpa gave a first glimpse of their commissioned design to expand Orlando's Mennello Museum of American Art. Collaborating with locally based KMF Architects, Brooks + Scarpa will add 40,000 square feet to transform the current 12,000 square-foot building into a more in…
Architectural historian, garden designer and writer who was regarded as the godfather of postmodernism Charles Jencks, the architectural historian, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres and designer of cosmic gardens, who has died aged 80, pinpointed the expiry of modernism to a pr…
To improve community structures with citizens’ input, the United Nations uses a computer game inspired by Lego.
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include clarifying comments from Matthew Howland. ---- Cork House designer Matthew Barnett Howland recently had some thoughts concerning this year's Stirling Prize winner. According to BD, the finalist was speaking at the Stirling Pr…
On November 8, Eray/Carbajo will host a panel discussion on how 'good design' can problem-solve and generate solutions for a sustainably better future.
An upper section of an 18-story hotel under construction in New Orleans partially collapsed on Saturday, October 12, killing at least two and injuring eighteen.
This post is brought to you by BQE Core. All too often architects find themselves dealing with clients and prospects who treat them as employees, rather than fellow business owners (Related: Clients from Hell… and Other Love Stories). Even if your clients aren’t difficult on pur…
Development Halted Near Columbus, Ohio
Spanning an entire city block, The Rheingold is Brooklyn’s latest upscale multifamily development.
The World of WearableArt Awards is an internationally renowned wearable art competition that, each year, attracts entries from over 40 countries around the world. The Competition offers designers an opportunity to create the unimaginable, and defy creative expectations.
Rather than going from one high-profile commission to the next, the architect has an alternative focus: designing shelters for the displaced.
T Magazine celebrates four talents who, in mastering their crafts, have changed their fields — and the culture at large.
We're halfway through October, but Archtober 2019, New York City's month-long architecture and design festival, is showing no signs of slowing down. Archinect & Bustler have partnered with Archtober for the ninth year in a row and present you our weekly highlights from a packed…
Oregon State University (OSU) has opened a new 17,500-square-foot research and fabrication lab designed by Michael Green Architecture (MGA) dedicated to mass timber design, engineering, fabrication, and construction. The A.A. Red Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory, as t…
If your next career endeavor is to land a job at a well-established, global architecture firm, don't miss out on these current listings from last week's Employer of the Day featured firms. Adjaye Associates recently posted a listing for a Marketing Coordinator to join their NY s…
Abraham Lincoln's Disappointment In the summer of 1863 after three days of brutal warfare, the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with the retreat of Robert E. Lee's army, something, that at the time, President Lincoln was not happy about. While the battle was seen as a triumph for…
Charles Jencks, the noted architectural theorist and historian, has passed away at age 80. RIBA Journal reported Jencks's passing via Twitter Monday morning. Jencks is the author of countless writings and works of criticism, including many important works from the 1970s that he…
American-born cultural theorist, architect, and landscape designer Charles Jencks has died at age 80. Read tributes from Robert A.M. Stern, Paul Goldberger, and George Baird.
The Morphosis-designed Sunset Strip development Viper Rooms recently sparked much debate among Archinectors, and now it has ignited further dispute among WeHo residents. Residents erupted in anger when West Hollywood city staffers announced Thursday night that the aesthetics of…
Four films screening at this year's ADFF—which runs from October 16-20 in New York—tackle housing insecurity.
After Norwich’s Goldsmith Street was awarded the Stirling prize, readers discuss the ability of councils to build more homes, what constitutes high-quality housing, and the insecurity of being a private tenantIt was gratifying to learn that the RIBA Stirling prize has been awarde…
