The 2018 cycle for the IIT College of Architecture's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize is well underway. Recently, four finalists were announced for the MCHAP.emerge competition. The corresponding biennial prize recognizes an outstanding built work in the Americas by an emerging architecture... View full entry
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Florida International University’s (FIU) massive new pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon killing several people.The 950-ton bridge, located at 109th Ave and 8th Street, collapsed on a number of cars. Florida Highway Patrol confirms several people are dead due to the collapse. They also said several cars have been crushed. At least one person was taken as a trauma alert to the hospital, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. — miami.cbslocal.com
The collapsed bridge had recently been erected this past Saturday and was constructed "using an innovative approach to bridge construction", which was meant to alleviate traffic and reduce risk. The recent positioning of the bridge was the largest pedestrian bridge move by Self-Propelled Modular... View full entry
Bjarke Ingels Group has been tapped to design the New National Theater of Albania, a 3-in-1 cultural venue tailored to the thriving cultural scene of the country's capital of Tirana. The new, 9,300 square meter contemporary building will be located in the heart of downtown, adjacent to the iconic... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects have released new Hufton+Crow photographs of the recently completed 520 West 28th Street development—and they're pretty stunning. Standing smack adjacent to Manhattan's famed High Line, the 11-story residential mid-rise is certainly a formidable first project in New York... View full entry
The Aedas-designed Commercial Bank Headquarters Project in Taichung, Taiwan, won the Tall Buildings category at MIPIM/The Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2018. The Future Project Awards celebrate excellence in unbuilt or incomplete projects spanning across 12 categories. View full entry
Frank Gehry's impact on the Grand Avenue cultural corridor in Downtown Los Angeles keeps growing: 15 years after completing the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall, and with the enormous The Grand mixed-use development right across the street finally coming to realization, Gehry was today also... View full entry
UNSense, a new arch tech startup based in Amsterdam, is being launched by UNStudio. Operating as an independent sister company to UNStudio, the company will explore and develop new integrated tech solutions specifically designed for the built environment. UNSense explores new technologies... View full entry
Back in 2013, Vienna-based practice Smartvoll architects was named the competition winner to design a captivating 2-story loft inside a former tank station of the historic Panzerhalle, in Salzburg's Maxglan district. In their design, Smartvoll aimed to preserve the original charm of the... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects won a competition to design the new Navi Mumbai International Airport in India, a long-awaited project in response to Mumbai's fast-growing transportation infrastructure and the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji International (CSI) Airport, which is reaching its capacity. As... View full entry
Renée Cheng has been named dean of the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Jerry Baldasty announced today. Her appointment, set to begin Jan. 1, 2019, is subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents.
Cheng is professor and associate dean of research at the University of Minnesota, where she has developed award-winning curricula and recently has been directing an innovative graduate program linking research with practice and licensure.
— University of Washington
"The College of Built Environments is a unique collection of disciplines that together, have unparalleled access to, and impact on, the lives and well-being of each and every community around the globe," Renée Cheng said. "I am honored and excited to join the College of Built Environments and... View full entry
The AIA's Los Angeles chapter recently announced the winners of its second Architectural Photography Awards. Created last year, the awards recognize that photographers have long been an integral element of the architect’s work; they not only document buildings but act as translators, explicating... View full entry
After several years of planning and proposals in different cities, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, funded by the “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas, is breaking ground today on a new building here that its leaders predict will take about four years to complete.
Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, the museum will occupy a corner of Exposition Park, an urban hub near the University of Southern California that already contains three museums [...].
— The New York Times
Image courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.After protective fencing went up last month at its Exposition Park site in South Los Angeles, the $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, finally broke ground today. View full entry
The competition entry "Growing Up" by emerging Hong Kong/New York-based studio New Office Works (NOW) is the winning proposal for the inaugural Hong Kong Young Architects and Designers Competition for a temporary pavilion in West Kowloon, the city's ambitious new cultural district.The... View full entry
Following the allegations of sexual harassment by Richard Meier reported in The New York Times yesterday, the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning declined Meier's new gift to name the chair of the Department of Architecture, and has cancelled the event planned next... View full entry
Emerging Objects is a self-described 3D Printing MAKE-tank founded by Ronald Rael, an Associate Professor of Architecture at University of California Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an Assistant Professor of Design at San José State University. They are trailblazers in the 3D printing... View full entry