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Fallen Journalists Memorial: AECOM and Paul Goldberger will help materialize a new site of remembrance to commemorate journalists who made the ultimate sacrifice

2021-07-01T08:00:00-04:00

On June 24th, the Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation announced its partnership with global engineering and infrastructure firm AECOM, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and the Levinson Group on a new site that pays homage to journalists worldwide. The FJM Foundation commits to memorializing and amplifying the work of these individuals whose lives were lost while in service to pursue the truth.

The memorial is "the culmination of dedicated work by the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation to honor the reporters, photojournalists, producers, editors, and others in the field, who have died while performing their jobs as journalists," shared Claire Sale, AECOM's project manager overseeing the memorial project. "We are honored to have a role in bringing this memorial to life."

The initiative stemmed from the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act that Congress passed in December 2020. The bill authorized the planning and development of "a commemorative work...

Introducing Archinect's Spotlight on Chicago

2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00

For the month of September, Archinect is placing a special Spotlight on Chicago, highlighting important regional projects—including the Chicago Architecture Biennial opening next week—profiling local firms and practitioners, and delving into some of the most pressing issues in academia, practice, and employment that are taking shape there.

In fact, the focus is already underway, as the recent articles below show:

Archinect’s new Spotlight series brings increased attention to a different regionally significant city every month in an effort to highlight some of the most interesting and diverse aspects of architecture academia, employment, and professional practice that...

As a Notre Dame Cathedral rebuild design competition is announced, we ask, "what does rebuilding the Notre Dame Cathedral really mean?"

2019-04-22T17:16:00-04:00

News of the Notre Dame fire has been an ongoing topic as of last week. Despite the loss of one spire and a destroyed roof, the cathedral still stands. The public has expressed strong views and opinions regarding the amount of attention and proactiveness many have made towards its rebuild. Social media is littered with responses of sadness, irritation, anger, optimism, and criticism towards the 850-year-old building. Much of the opinionated discussion not only revolves around the structure's historical and religious ties, but the amount of attention and funding it has received towards its rebuild. Using the cathedral's casualty as an example, is this how the general public will react to future casualties towards architecture?

After President Macron announced a campaign to raise funds for the cathedral early last week, an outpour of funds were donated. In one day alone, three of the wealthiest families in France pledged $700 million. Upon hearing of the funds raised many were quick to...

Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound; A Discussion of Recent News and Features

2018-02-22T18:31:00-05:00

This week we release a relatively spontaneous, and completely silly, look at news and features recently published on Archinect. We also turn Ken's famous last 2 questions, "What are you reading and listening to" onto ourselves.

Discussed during the show:

The French Laundry gets a $10 million Michelin-starred revamp from Snøhetta

Snøhetta unveils “Svart”, the Arctic Circle's first energy-positive hotel

Snøhetta designs controversial black crystalline U.F.O for Norwegian artist + Discussion in Forum

Employees at Apple's new headquarters keep walking into its famed glass walls

Snøhetta's much-discussed underwater restaurant breaks ground

"Probably the most creative person in the world" — The New Yorker profiles Thomas Heatherwick

Has the ADA gone too far?

Architecture Billings Index kicks new year off strong with highest January score since 2007

70-story wooden skyscraper proposed for Tokyo could become world's tallest

Brand New Reviews Logos of the 10 Most-Followed Firm Profiles on A...

Morpholio's new "ScalePen" offers a new way to draw on Trace app

2016-03-22T18:44:00-04:00

It is not only a new way of working, it is part of the latest renaissance in drawing; imagining the heart of the designer merged with the brain of a computer.

Morpholio has just released “ScalePen”, a patent-pending tool used to draft on the developer’s popular "Trace" app for the iPad. The company’s co-creator, Anna Kenoff, views ScalePen as an “entirely new opportunity for architectural drawing… Rather than setting or keeping records of your own pen weight, Morpholio makes the software do the work for you.”

With the development of CAD, hand drafting has seemingly become a thing of the past. “Fortunately, creative production is fueled by much more than just efficiency”, says Morpholio, adding that “architects and designers have given new rise to hand drawing and sketching as part of their process - a renaissance no doubt ushered in by the touchscreen and stylus.”

The app offers an assortment of pen sizes that respond as the stylus is moved around, through and into the drawing. The ScalePen feature checks the drawing scale and zoom level continuously to automatically assign a calibrated set of technical pens. Morpholio suggests that it save...

The Most Relevant News of 2014 (for Architects)

2014-12-30T14:02:00-05:00

Sometimes it's easy to pretend that architecture exists outside of this world, erupting instead in the blank of a 3D space governed only by the laissez-fair laws of software. But sometimes a news headline will penetrate through this fog of imagination, appearing as a blazing light shining forth from an image of some distant row of houses hollowed by mortar fire and colored with the blood of a strangers' body. "This is the real of architecture," the news seems to silently implore.

As gravity serves as the counterweight to the feverish, technofuturism fashionable to today's students, news events seem to ground architecture just at the moment it seems like it may finally escape into the vapors of idealism. While it may seem that architecture is increasingly consigned to the building of institutions or expensive residences, the demand for buildings and dwellings simultaneously grows louder and more desperate with every unfolding disaster.

A year-end round-up is as fraught as a ranking. If...

7 reasons why you need to be using Archinect's FOLLOW feature

2013-07-26T13:21:00-04:00

Keeping up-to-date with your favorite architects, firms and schools has just become WAY easier!

As you know, Archinect delivers a lot of news and information, every day, reflecting the activity of the architecture community at large. For some people, this can be too much information!

So, to make your life easier, we've introduced a tool allowing you to follow your favorite architects, firms and schools, so you can keep track of news, features, projects and activities specifically related to them.

In addition to jobs, projects, press releases, events, etc, that Firms and Schools post to directly their Archinect profiles, the updates also include News and Features published by Archinect, relating to the profiles you follow.

You don't even need to visit Archinect to get the updates! By default, a summary of the updates to your followed profiles will be emailed to you each day there is new activity. If you prefer to get the news through your web browser, simply visit yo...