The holiday season is here, and if you're looking for the perfect gift to celebrate, it's time to take a peek at Archinect's curated 2024 gift guide with items selected personally by our editorial team. Whether you're an architect, student, or just a straight-up fan of all things design, we've got... View full entry
Brengues Le Pavec architectes has completed a rural home in Hérault, France as a “space of refuge and fulfillment.” Built on a sloping site at the end of a valley, the home’s design seeks to emphasize integration and subtlety. Image credit: Florence Alzonda Image credit: Florence... View full entry
Archinect is thrilled to announce our official debut on two of China’s leading social media platforms—WeChat and RED (Xiaohongshu). This milestone marks an important step in Archinect’s 27-year mission of connecting the global architecture community. With an official presence on these... View full entry
OMA has shared with Archinect photos from a new Shohei Shigematsu-led temporary installation and retail space for Louis Vuitton in Midtown Manhattan that has captured the critical attention of New Yorkers in the buildup to the holiday shopping season. This is OMA's second collaboration with the... View full entry
Following our previous look at an opening for a Compliance Director at AKAM, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an architectural designer at Samara. The open role calls for an individual who will join... View full entry
The winner of this year's RIBA International Emerging Architect award has been named by the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) as the Chinese-based practice ARCity Office for their Six Bricolage Houses project in Shenzhen, China. The honor recognizes practices established in the last... View full entry
Tadao Ando’s close three-decade building relationship with the Benesse Art Site in western Japan will celebrate a new milestone next spring with the opening of the Naoshima New Museum of Art, his tenth contribution for the cultural destination on Naoshima Island. The scheme sighted the more than... View full entry
The fourth RIBA International Prize has been awarded to the Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing complex in Cornellà, Spain, by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for 2024. The design arranges five to six modules worth approximately 139 square feet apiece into 85 homes inspired by Japanese design with 18 on... View full entry
The cross-border Israeli military confrontation with Hezbollah has induced UNESCO to take drastic action by declaring 34 cultural properties in Lebanon to be under provisional enhanced protection, according to a new announcement from the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural... View full entry
While big architectural gestures commonly feature glass and steel, those building with the material hope to show that hemp can be grand in its own right. — The Guardian
The Guardian points out Public Realm Lab’s Powerhouse Place, the recently named winner of the National Award for Sustainable Architecture at the 2024 National Architecture Awards, as an example of Australia’s embrace of hempcrete and other hemp products as alternative building materials. Hemp... View full entry
The New York Times recently outlined some of the facts underpinning NYC’s housing crisis ahead of an upcoming final City Council vote on Mayor Eric Adams’ amended ‘City of Yes’ zoning overhaul plan for 80,000 new residential units on December 5th. Among the interesting takeaways... View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs, we are featuring five architecture and design firms with current openings in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, New York City, Boston, and San Francisco. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board and... View full entry
Morris Adjmi Architects' new Helen Diller Anchor House student housing project has debuted on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Photo by Jason O'Rear The project is a resource meant to house transfer students who are a vital part of the UC system and more likely to be... View full entry
Two new Bratislava skyscrapers designed by Dutch architectural firm KCAP are set to become the tallest buildings in Slovakia, and the second-tallest in the European Union. Standing at heights of 853 and 604 feet, the residential towers will contain over 1,100 new homes. View full entry
In Britain, as our government has promised, we’re going to have a “council housing revolution”, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis. Which is welcome.
Luckily there are, close at hand, outstanding examples of how this might be done, in cities and countries on the continent of Europe.
— The Guardian
Moore points to Vienna, the city known for its ambitious development model for social housing, and Barcelona as two examples of what he says is a healthy "willingness to experiment" to be applied back home in the UK. The new Labour Party government has promised to usher in a "revolution" in... View full entry
