The Architectural Association made a loss in excess of £800,000 last year, its annual report has revealed. The cash-strapped school – which made nine redundancies this winter – posted net expenditure of £819,732 for the year ending 31 July 2017, according to accounts due to be filed at Companies House. This compared with a net income of £244,551 in the previous year. — architectsjournal.co.uk
The AA's annual report stated the "Expenditure increased in the year due to one-off costs in governance reform as part of preparation for the TDAP application, together with increased costs of compliance monitoring and property rentals at Bedford Square." The report also states an income issue... View full entry
Freed from the conventions of architecture and construction, what would this world look like?
It’s a question Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been trying to answer for the past decade, dreaming of structures that are as light as a cloud, as vast as the sky, as random as the trees in a forest or the stars in the sky.
— The Guardian
Glass Pavilion, Park Groot Vijversburg, NL. Image: junya.ishigami+associates.The Guardian's architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, takes a closer at the fascinating work of Junya Ishigami, the bright new star on the Japanese architecture firmament, who is catching more and more mainstream... View full entry
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has asked for public comments on the current and planned standards for manufactured housing. This action is taken following an executive directive to reduce the U.S. government’s overall regulatory complexity. — fluxus-prefab.com
In January HUD announced a review of manufactured housing rules seeking public comments on identifying regulations which stifle affordable housing. Fluxus LLC, a prefabricated building technology platform, has submitted the following comment for the HUD Regulations Division’s consideration... View full entry
Scoring the highest out of three finalist teams, SMAR Architecture Studio from Australia and Spain was appointed to design Lithuania's new National Science and Innovation Centre — a.k.a. Science Island — in Kaunas. Organized by London-based Malcolm Reading Consultants, the... View full entry
Italy’s far-right Lega party, which won almost 18% of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party headquarters in Como, in the Lombardy region, into northern Italy’s biggest museum of Modern art, architecture and design. — The Art Newspaper
As reported by The Art Newspaper, the leader of Italy's newly empowered far-right Lega party, Matteo Salvini, has called in his manifesto, besides the expected anti-immigration, anti-European Union views, to create a grand museum of architecture, design, and modern art in the northern Italian... View full entry
On Tuesday, Waymo announced they’d purchase 20,000 sporty, electric self-driving vehicles from Jaguar for the company’s forthcoming ride-hailing service. [...]
They estimate that the Jaguar fleet alone will be capable of doing a million trips each day in 2020. [...] if Waymo is even within 50 percent of that number in two years, the United States will have entered an entirely new phase in robotics and technology.
— The Atlantic
In his piece for The Atlantic, Alexis C. Madrigal looks beyond the technological and economic implications of Waymo's latest announcement to add 20,000 electric self-driving Jaguar I-Pace SUVs to its rapidly growing ride-hailing fleet by 2020 and instead think about the social (how... View full entry
Despite switching architects from Moshe Safdie to Bjarke Ingels of BIG Architects in September, HFZ Capital Group is still on track with its office tower planned for 3 West 29th Street. New renderings obtained by YIMBY reveal a much taller building than filed in September, which called for... View full entry
Taking a photograph of architecture by using a camera is tantamount to placing a small architecture against another large architecture and having the small one swallow the larger one. — Places Journal
The Japanese word for buildings, tatemono, means “things that are standing.” On the occasion of a major career retrospective at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Naoya Hatakeyama considers the meaning and the practice of photographing the built environment, and the distinction between the... View full entry
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design has awarded its coveted $100,000 architectural research travel grant, the Wheelwright Prize, to Belgian architect Aude-Line Dulière. Established in 1935 and originally intended for Harvard GSD alumni, the fellowship has now become an open... View full entry
After a four-day weekend, kick yourself into the architecture and design scene by considering the wider context of the Greenbelt and beyond to post-industrial regions through walks and talks. It is also your last chance to catch The Design Museum's Ferrari: Under the Skin before it shuts its... View full entry
The verdict is finally out! We're thrilled to present the winning entries of the 2018 Fairy Tales Architecture Competition. Organized by Blank Space, the anticipated yearly competition invites architects, designers, students, and all creative types to write a unique architecturally themed fairy... View full entry
In a time of climate change and rapid urbanization, searching for architectural solutions that help preserve the environment — while making cities more resilient — is as important as ever. In this spirit, the upcoming “NatureStructure” exhibition at the BSA Space in Boston... View full entry
Gill, for Christ's sake, get your hair cut.-FLW — Southern California Architectural History
If you think architecture has a dense web of characters and influences now, read So. Cal's arch historian John Crosse's account of the development of modernism in Los Angeles, going all the way to Adler & Sullivan's prestigious office in the Auditorium Building in Chicago.Front elevation... View full entry
Thinking about heading to Venice this spring to catch a glimpse of the Biennale? While the FREESPACE Architecture Exhibition in the Arsenale, curated this year by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects and chaired by Paolo Baratta, as well as a plethora of National... View full entry
The quirky concept NOODLE SOUP by the young Columbus, Ohio-based design team of Galo Cañzares and Stephanie Sang Delgado has been named the winning entry in the 2018 Ragdale Ring competition. The annual artists' residency in Lake Forest, Illinois invited proposals to design, build, and... View full entry