French firm LAN (Local Architecture Network) won the competition of restructuring the iconic Grand Palais back in 2014. Updates have been released on the firm's plans for this historic Paris venue, a space which was built in 1900 for the World's Fair. Grand Palais, Mediation space simulation... View full entry
SHoP Architects was crowned the grand prize winner of the 11th annual Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture for their redesign of SITE Santa Fe. Managed by the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture + Planning, the $10,000 award distinguishes innovative... View full entry
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have unveiled this year's winners of their highest honors, the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Citizen Leadership and Law. Renowned London-based architect David Adjaye is recognized as a... View full entry
It's that time again to vote for your favorite architecture school lecture posters for the Spring '18 term! If you've been following Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series, you'll notice that these posters are as diverse as the institutions they represent. The lecture posters serve as an... View full entry
This week there are some fascinating talks and events to fill your evenings, including a discussion of automated environments, a talk about designing with mental health in mind, and a luxurious 1640s themed palatial ball. Check back regularly to keep up to date with London's latest... View full entry
In our most recent episode of Archinect Sessions, we briefly discussed the (hilarious) news of people running into glass walls and dodging deadly icicles at Apple-designed buildings. It was also mentioned, however, that Apple is one of the few mega-corps that are truly pushing excellence in... View full entry
She believed that the five Platonic solids were the most basic archetypes upon which all organic structures, micro- and macrocosmic, were formed. — Architect
A diagram of the addition. Anne Tyng Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania"She was known as Louis Kahn's muse but never really escaped his shadow. What Tyng's only surviving solo project says about her legacy. The Rome Letters 1953–54 (Rizzoli), Kahn and another... View full entry
Among the top 25 shortlisted in the DAM Preis exhibition, the winning project goes to Wohnanlage WagnisART, located in Munich, by ARGE bogevischs buero and SHAG Schindler Hable Architekten. This housing cooperative boasts 140 different subsidized apartments within its five passive housing... View full entry
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) presents an exhibition to accompany the DAM Preis 2018 showcasing exceptional examples of current German architecture studios. The jury has selected 25 building projects from a long list of 100 projects to be displayed in the show. Each project has either... View full entry
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre offered schools his organization’s “free” support and guidance to protect themselves, saying that communities “must come together to implement the very best strategy to harden their schools.” President Donald Trump echoed the sentiment Thursday saying, “We have to harden our sites” to protect schools from gun violence [...] it’s worth revisiting exactly what the NRA means when it calls for measures to “harden” a school. — motherjones.com
Here are a few architectural elements and design features the NRA recommends from its 2013 task force report for "hardening" schools. A big fenceNo treesNo parking lotsEntrapment areasNo windowsA door stopJoin the discussion asking: "Where are the designers, architects, and engineers in the... View full entry
Mr. Cooper began his career in 1958 as overseer for architect Eero Saarinen in the construction of Washington Dulles International Airport. [...]
Mr. Cooper was best known for his work on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1982 and 1995, respectively.
— The Washington Post
Kent Cooper's architecture firm, Cooper-Lecky, became the architects of record for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. While Maya Lin's now iconic design for the memorial was chosen as the competition winner in 1981, Lin was an architecture student at the time and not a licensed... View full entry
Forensic Architecture [...] is an agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The organisation’s founder and director is Eyal Weizman, a British-Israeli architect. Its primary mission is research, to “develop evidentiary systems in relation to specific cases”; in so doing, it acts as “an architectural detective agency”, working with NGOs and human rights lawyers to uncover facts that confound the stories told by police, military, states and corporations. — The Guardian
Weizman conceives of his work as an alternative practice, aiming to create a sub-discipline of architecture using architectural evidence in cases of war crimes or other human rights violations. Calling their activity "counter-forensics", the organization does not take commissions from... View full entry
In the maddening gap between how this place functions and how inventors and engineers here think it should, many have become enamored with the same idea: What if the people who build circuits and social networks could build cities, too? Wholly new places, designed from scratch and freed from broken policies. — The Upshot
In Emily Badger's latest piece for the Upshot, she investigates the Tech Industry's newest sector of disruption, the City. From Alphabet company's proposal for Sidewalk Labs in Toronto to a proposed smart city in Arizona, Silicon Valley is looking to build urban utopias of their own. While the... View full entry
Construction of The Conservatory sky bridge has given Raffles City Chongqing the title of development with the highest sky bridge linking the most number of towers. [...]
Designed by Moshe Safdie, Raffles City Chongqing also consists of a 350-m supertall skyscraper, which currently holds two records for being China’s tallest residential tower and Chongqing’s tallest building.
— Business Insider
Image: CapitaLandIf you thought Marina Bay Sands' sky bridge in Singapore was pretty impressive, hold your breath now for its younger, bigger sibling, Raffles City Chongqing, currently growing towards the sky in Central China. Also designed by Safdie Architects, the 1.12 million sqm... View full entry
“Finnskogens Hus” by emerging Copenhagen practice Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson (LLJ) was the winner of the Museum of Forest Finn Culture competition in Svullrya, Norway. A total of 203 proposals were submitted, making it Norway's fourth largest architecture competition.Reflecting its... View full entry