ITAR Architectures, a firm based in Paris, recently completed their award winning project Batignolles, Paris 17th. Focusing on residential work, the firm states all components within their projects hold equal importance. ITAR Architectures explains, "Material diversity, selected structural... View full entry
The A+D Museum has announced the unveiling of their inaugural fellowship program, developed in collaboration with the LA-based multi-disciplinary design firm, Rios Clementi Hale Studios. The aim of the The Alley Fellowship is to produce a two-month rotating exhibition and lecture series and is... View full entry
Milan Design Week just kicked off, and one impressive highlight is the debut exhibition Brave New World: Re-thinking Design in the New Age of Technology by brand-new Spanish company, Nagami. Marking the brand's official launch event, the show at the Nagami pop-up showroom in Milan's Brera... View full entry
English architectural writer, critic, and educator Kenneth Frampton will receive the honorable Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale next month. Frampton was selected by the Board of the Venice Biennale, upon recommendation of 2018 Biennale... View full entry
If you've been around the 'architecture-can-be-fun-too'-focused internet for a while, you may remember Sergej Hein's semi-viral gem of a video, Berlin Block Tetris, which was exactly that: an animated version of the video game classic using building blocks that resembled socialist-era residential... View full entry
This week we rounded up jobs with firms who have created imaginative public installations. Whether permanently established or temporarily set up, these spaces allow for experiences outside of people’s day-to-day interactions. Search through opportunities currently active on Archinect Jobs and... View full entry
Out of five invited domestic and international architecture firms, Minsuk Cho's Mass Studies had the winning proposal for a film art complex tentatively named “Seoul Cinematheque”, in the historic Chungmuro film industry hub in Seoul. Today, the Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed the first... View full entry
New York City could be getting its first soccer stadium if a proposal for the project led by Related Companies gets chosen by officials. A partnership made up of developers Related and Somerset Partners, along with the Major League Soccer team, New York City Football Club, has submitted a... View full entry
Developers on Monday unveiled plans for Chicago’s second-tallest skyscraper, a tapering shaft of metal and glass that would soar above historic Tribune Tower, resemble the top of Batman’s black mask and be only 29 feet shorter than Willis Tower.
If completed, the $1 billion-plus project to repurpose Tribune Tower and build a skinny, 1,422-foot high-rise just northeast of it would bring more than 700 residences and 200 hotel rooms to an area north of the Chicago River.
— chicagotribune.com
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are working with Los Angeles developers Golub & Co. and CIM Group to build Chicago's next skyscraper. Their design would take over Trump International Hotel & Tower's title of second-tallest in the city. Current plans for the new tower have... View full entry
Last year, LA-based Materials & Applications launched Staging Construction as a call for projects that explores construction as both practice and performance. The competition responds to the increasing attention to “the unseen endeavors intrinsic to the production of architecture”, as seen in... View full entry
A new Moscow apartment building has unveiled a fully-functioning facial recognition system designed to replace residents’ keys. [...]
As well as allowing homeowners to enter the building without a key, the system automatically selects each resident’s floor when they enter the lift, and keeps tabs on cars and pedestrians leaving the complex.
— Calvert Journal
Steven Holl Architects' new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will open to the public on April 21, 2018. The ICA's new building named the Markel Center will debut with its inaugural exhibition Declaration, an exploration of contemporary art’s power... View full entry
“RRRolling Stones” by design practice HANNAH is the winner of the Folly/Function 2018 competition! Organized by Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League of New York, the 2018 competition invited entrants to submit their most creative proposals for movable outdoor seating to be used... View full entry
Despite increased political and financial volatility in Europe, many of its cities offer the world’s highest quality of living and remain attractive destinations for expanding business operations and sending expatriates on assignment, according to Mercer’s 19th annual Quality of Living survey. [...]
Vienna occupies first place for overall quality of living for the 8th year running, with the rest of the top-ten list mostly filled by European cities.
— Mercer
The latest annual Mercer Quality of Living survey with the world's most desirable cities for business professionals to relocate to was recently released, and the ten top contenders are mostly the same familiar players: Vienna, AustriaZurich, SwitzerlandAuckland, New ZealandMunich... View full entry
The Qatar National Library in Doha officially opened its doors on April 16th. Designed by OMA, the new building encompasses the National Library, the Public Library, the University Library, and the Heritage Collection, which consists of valuable texts and manuscripts related to the... View full entry
