Kansas City-based architecture firm BNIM recently announced its decision to transition to an employee stock ownership plan (or ESOP) and trust. The move was made in the fall and was brought about by an apparent desire to hand over control to younger employees, its senior leadership says... View full entry
The recent decision by Congress to revise fee limitations on all federal design and construction contracts undertaken with the Department of Defense (DOD) has been commended by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) following President Joe Biden’s formal signing of the National Defense... View full entry
Real estate website The Real Deal has compiled a list of the busiest architecture firms in New York City across 2023. The ranking sees architects listed based on their role as architects of record for permit applications filed for new buildings and renovations measuring more than 5,000 square feet... View full entry
His pitch is pretty straightforward. In a world where companies—including construction companies and their clients—are trying to gloss their climate credentials, and where countries have made commitments to hit carbon reduction targets, why wouldn’t you shift wholesale to carbon-neutral concrete? The answer, Fox says, is simply inertia. “Why would they change what’s working for them? They’ve been burning rocks for 200 years.” — Wired
The company Fox co-founded with an architect named Sam Marshall, Partanna, has been active since 2018 in using its product, which was developed with the help of materials science researchers using a mixture of brine taken from desalination plants and slag. Arizona State... View full entry
Spending on nonresidential construction dropped by 0.1% in November in a reversal of a 17-month growth period for the sector, according to an analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data from the industry group Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). The total amount of spending in the sector was... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Project Manager at Food Architects DPC, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Studio Director at Doug Aitken Workshop. The role, based in Venice, CA, calls for an individual... View full entry
In a conversation with Niall Patrick Walsh, Natasha Sandmeier considered the potential up-side(s) to the growing abilities of Artificial Intelligence "I do not believe there are many creatives who aspire to draw door details for three months or to endlessly clean up red-line drawings. Yet, these... View full entry
The architecture industry was impacted this year by market volatility, rising interest rates, and evolving labor dynamics. This unusual business climate was reflected not only in the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) and the Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) but also in the pattern of job... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Senior Architect at Zuru Group, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Project Manager at Food Architects DPC. The role, based in Chinatown, New York, calls for an individual... View full entry
At the end of last year, we described 2022 as the year that “architecture’s labor movement roared back to life.” In 2023, the movement kept the volume on 'high.' Across the U.S. and internationally, reforms in labor conditions continued from the top down and the bottom up. Throughout the... View full entry
Construction starts for the month of November fell by 15% to new ten-month lows at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $927 billion, according to the latest figures from the Dodge Construction Network. For the month, nonresidential building starts fell 29%, residential starts lost 6%, and... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects has released new Architecture Billings Index data for the month of November, indicating a further softening of business conditions with a score below 50 recorded for what is now the fourth month in a row. The new 45.3 score for the month is still a full... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Richmond-based 3North, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York City this week to explore the work of JG Neukomm Architecture. Founded in 2017 by Jean-Gabriel Neukomm, the firm operates on the premise that “great architecture requires a bold... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Landscape Designer at the Better Block Foundation, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Senior Architect at Zuru Group. The role, based in El Segundo, CA, calls for an... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education While the NFT bubble has burst, the tantalizing potential of blockchain, which is the foundation of NFT’s, bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, endures. Some have even written that blockchain... View full entry