A new housing project in Paris was recently redeveloped by the Brussels-based firm BOB361. The apartment complex, Orteaux, is part of a larger revitalization project for a Parisian neighborhood located near the Père Lachaise cemetery. Orteaux by BOB361, located in Paris. Image: BOB361. As... View full entry
I think we haven’t thought through the challenge of technology for city mobility. We are stuck with some 120-year-old ideas that the industry is desperately holding on to. I tell students: Whenever you hear the word “smart,” beware, because that is somebody who wants to sell as many millions as possible of some new gimmick. And he is not necessarily giving you a better quality of life. — CityLab
Annette Becker and Lessano Negussie, curators of the new exhibition RIDE A BIKE! Reclaim the City at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt, Germany, interviewed the 81-year-old 'people-friendly city' evangelist for the show's accompanying book. View full entry
"To design is to see as in foresee; to draw visions not previously seen," says the groundbreaking designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in a new short documentary film about her work and life. A dancer-turned-graphic designer, Solomon was born in San Francisco but trained in Switzerland at the... View full entry
The 2018 Governor General's Medals in Architecture honor outstanding buildings across Canada recognized by The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts. The biennial awards celebrate outstanding design in recently completed projects by Canadian architects... View full entry
Kanye West's flirt with the architecture profession appears to take on a more 'It's complicated' kind of status—if you're willing to lend enough credibility to his tweet from yesterday, announcing "we’re starting a Yeezy architecture arm called Yeezy home. We’re looking for architects and... View full entry
Planning ahead for another busy week in Los Angeles? Bustler put together a snappy list of architecture and design events happening around town. This week's picks include: an AIA|LA discussion about the 2028 Olympics; the upcoming “Above and Behind: The Architecture Photography of Benny Chan”... View full entry
Wondering what architecture and design events are happening around New York City? Bustler rounded up a snappy list of event recommendations worth checking out. This week's picks include: a lecture by visual artist Michelle Dizon on “Archival Futurisms: Memory and the Ruins of Imperialism”; the... View full entry
It's that time for another Archinect Employer of the Day weekly round-up. Check out the latest firms profiled amid the thousands of active listings on our job board. If you don't already, get each day's Employer of the Day by following us on Facebook, showcasing a firm every day, along with... View full entry
A new graffiti and street art exhibition titled BEYOND THE STREETS will open to the public in Los Angeles May 6, 2018. Celebrating variations within the medium, the exhibition will showcase paintings, sculptures, photography, and installations throughout industrial indoor and outdoor... View full entry
The nightclub scene is as fantastically eccentric as it has always been, as the “Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today” exhibition shows. Currently on display at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the exhibition explores the design history of nightclub and it examines... View full entry
In some places, the tower block has never faded from view. The history of mass housing in eastern Europe is complex and uncomfortable. Yet what’s striking is how prominently the tower block features in the work of contemporary photographers from that territory. These artists have every reason to turn their backs on such buildings. They’re ugly and overbearing, not to say reminiscent of an authoritarian past. But the mass housing block is a recurring presence in their work. — Calvert Journal
Writer and critic Ekow Eshun provides a beautiful overview of the tower block as a recurring architectural, social, and aesthetic theme in the works of post-Soviet-era photographers in Russia, Serbia, the Baltic states, and throughout Eastern Europe. "However ugly and monolithic such buildings... View full entry
Mid- or second-tier cities, loosely defined as those under a million people that aren’t regional powerhouses like Austin or Seattle, are increasingly seen as not just places to find a lower cost of living, easier commute, and closer connections with family, but also a more approachable, neighborhood-oriented version of the urban lifestyle that sent many to the larger cities in the first place. — curbed.com
Census data shows that smaller metros are seeing more migration from millennials while larger cities are experiencing slower growth. These smaller cities have been attracting new growth in part due to investing in green spaces and parks, upswings in local tech hubs, and downtown redevelopment. View full entry
The competition to redesign the Eiffel Tower Great Site has announced its four team long shortlist. Orchestrated by Paris City Council along with Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, the project is looking to redevelop the site so that visits are more enjoyable and easier to access in... View full entry
Next fall, Indiana University announced Monday, the building will house the university’s new master of architecture program, serving as an outpost of the flagship Bloomington campus 36 miles to the west. But this will be no ordinary outpost.
Columbus, a small-town architectural mecca, boasts buildings by such renowned architects as Eliel and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Chicago’s Harry Weese.
— Chicago Tribune
Blair Kamin tells the story of the former The Republic newspaper building—a modernist gem designed by SOM partner Myron Goldsmith and opened in 1971—which will soon find a second life as Indiana University's new architecture graduate program studio in Columbus, Indiana. View full entry
The Taoyuan Museum of Arts competition opened in September 2017 with the prompt of designing a new space for fine art in Taiwan. Of the 14 competing teams, 4 were chosen for the second stage. Joe Shih. Architects + Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop won first prize with a proposal of... View full entry
