Weiss/Manfredi has been named as the winner of the 37th Louis I. Kahn Award. The New York-based studio was formed by husband and wife duo Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi in 1989 and has since impacted the profession through an award-winning portfolio of cultural, higher-ed, urban design, and... View full entry
Our annual Archinect readers’ predictions for this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize have once again spurred a lively discussion forum thread full of guesses as to which architect will become the 53rd official laureate when the prize is announced on Tuesday, March 5. Last year, our social... View full entry
If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Highlighted below are four calls seeking RFQs for the redesign of Columbus, Indiana's Downtown Entrance Plaza, large-scale art installations to be... View full entry
The White House has announced a series of moves to increase the production of manufactured housing in the United States. The initiatives are intended to both preserve and rehabilitate existing manufactured home communities and ease barriers to the construction of new units. The moves include a... View full entry
The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture is to present an exhibition centered on the design of architectural poster art. Titled Designing Decades: Architectural Poster Art (1972–1982) and organized in collaboration with SPACED Gallery of Architecture, the pieces on display are curated... View full entry
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has shared an update to its official ARE guidelines effective this week (February 27). The updated ARE 5.0 Guidelines include changes to exam security policies and the ARE 5.0 Reference Guide. The revision also covers new building... View full entry
The newly published RIBA Artificial Intelligence Report has revealed statistics detailing the architecture industry’s turn towards AI within professional practice using findings from a recent survey of 500+ members. The study also gives clues about the technology’s future and feedback on... View full entry
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF)’s search for a new organizational leader has culminated in the appointment of Tizziana Baldenebro as its next executive director following a national search that began this fall. Baldenebro, who replaces the long-tenured and well-admired Cynthia... View full entry
The latest edition of our curated job highlights from Archinect Jobs features eight employers in the Boston area looking to expand with new, attractive career opportunities. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series and our... View full entry
We’re not there yet. In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place. — The Guardian
Writing for The Guardian, critic Oliver Wainwright says he hopes RIBA’s new publication 100 Women: Architects in Practice, which we previewed in December, will encourage competition judges, academic panels, awards juries, exhibitions organizers, and rebuke “the headhunters who claim women... View full entry
The Wilmington Waterfront Promenade in Los Angeles has opened to the public following an extensive public landscape project by Sasaki Associates. The park seeks to improve public waterfront access near the Port of Los Angeles and expands on the 30-acre Wilmington Waterfront Park that Sasaki... View full entry
A new 3D printed ADU prototype made of concrete and other fire-resistant materials is under construction as part of a demonstration taking place this month in Walnut, California. The first-of-its-kind project was born of a collaboration between the fire departments of both Walnut and Los... View full entry
SHoP Architects has designed a residential tower for Mercedes-Benz in Miami, the first branded real-estate project for the car company in the United States. Overseen by JDS Development Group, and designed in collaboration with a Mercedes-Benz design team, the scheme is centered on the theme... View full entry
Progress on the Oxagon, Sindalah, and the 110-mile-long The Line centerpiece developments in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM megaproject has been documented in a new update released this week. Aerial photos combined with drone footage displaying their construction progress surfaced on NEOM social... View full entry
The Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge ideas competition has presented its winning entries. Participants were challenged with designing "flexible" solutions to the city's ongoing housing crisis. Each concept design was submitted without limitations of site or scale and judged based on its... View full entry