M. Arthur Gensler Jr., the founder of Gensler, has passed away at the age of 85. A talented architect who turned his humble San Francisco practice into the largest architecture firm in the world with 50 locations across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Gensler founded... View full entry

Helmut Jahn, the highly respected German-American architect, was tragically killed on Saturday from a vehicular collision while riding his bicycle in his hometown of Chicago.  Born in Germany, near Nuremberg, in 1940, Jahn arrived in Chicago in 1966 to study under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at... View full entry

Harvard's Graduate School of Design announced the winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize: architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture Germane Barnes will receive the coveted $100,000 fellowship fund to support his two-year research project Anatomical... View full entry

Originally conceived in 2010 by design consultants Archie Lee Coates and Jeff Franklin along with architect Dong-Ping Wong, the self-filtering, plus sign-shaped swimming pool will allow New Yorkers to swim legally and safely in the polluted East River for the first time in more than... View full entry

No matter if you're aiming to further your architectural career at an established global firm or a local boutique practice, check out our latest highlight of featured employers in New York City, Beijing, Los Angeles, Taipei, New Orleans, and Bozeman, Montana. For even more current openings, visit... View full entry

Sou Fujimoto Architects has unveiled their design for the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-Up Exhibition Hall. Designed in collaboration with Donghua Chen Studio, the exhibition hall is imagined as “gardens within a box” with a village-like indoor space cloaked underneath a multi-layered... View full entry

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has unveiled a $233 million renovation, reorganization, and interior expansion of its historic 1928 main building. The undertaking, called the Core Project, was led by Frank Gehry and saw the addition of nearly 90,000 square feet of reimagined and newly created space... View full entry

The decision comes after Salone del Mobile president Claudito Luti resigned on April 23, 2021, following a long period of uncertainty relating to the September dates and support from the Italian government for the fair to go forward. The event was originally called off following the onset of the... View full entry

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. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Metal. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to... View full entry

Established in 2015, the Harry der Boghosian Fellowship is a one-of-a-kind program initiated by Syracuse University. The program provides emerging faculty members and designers early in their careers the opportunity to spend a year "developing a body of design research based on an area of interest... View full entry

SANAA has unveiled their design for the Shenzhen Maritime Museum, overlooking the Dapeng Peninsula mountains and Longqi Bay in southern China. The scheme is imagined as a “cloud-like horizontal landmark” says the design team, evoking the imagery of clouds emerging from the sea. The scheme is... View full entry

Renderings of a new five-story residential building in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood have surfaced, featuring a unique and playful façade that takes the shape of a giant keyboard.  The renderings were discovered on the website of iAffordNY, a marketing agency that works with the New... View full entry

Summer is quickly approaching, and if you're searching for a new job, the Archinect Job board features numerous employment opportunities daily. This week's curated job round-up features twenty-three job opportunities from twelve firms specializing in adaptive reuse and historic... View full entry

Brightline West, an affiliate of Brightline, the country’s only privately owned passenger railroad, is planning a 170-mile high-speed rail line, which would connect Las Vegas to the Apple Valley community in San Bernardino County. Set to travel at a maximum speed of 200 miles per hour, trains on... View full entry

What’s the last best place for the world’s largest pedestrian bridge? If your answer is suspended 500 feet over a river gorge, you may have a new post-Covid bucket list destination.  That is the predicament for the newly-opened 516 Arouca, which this week began accepting thrill-seekers... View full entry