Danish architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed the first phase of NIO House, an unconventional showroom for electric car company NIO in Shanghai. NIO House by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects located in Shanghai. Image: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.NIO House by... View full entry
The proposed $25 billion wall along the US/Mexico border raises questions that have proven divisive to society. [...]
In 2017 and 2018, AIA state components and chapters in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas wrote resolutions and letters with the support of their boards of directors opposing a border wall and questioning its cost-benefit relative to infrastructure projects all over the country that they deem higher-priority.
— AIA
AIA state components and chapters in each of the four states bordering Mexico—Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas—are organizing their opposition to Trump's border wall proposal and have passed formal resolutions. "Robert Miller, AIA, 2018 president of AIA Arizona, led the charge in... View full entry
Architecture and design magazine Volume Zero's UnBox 2017 competition challenged participants worldwide to design public spaces out of recycled shipping containers. The 2017 edition attracted 323 proposals from 57 countries.The international jury — which comprised of Arjun Malik (Malik... View full entry
Beijing-based practice META-Project designed this stage-like, triangular lookout built on a forest hillside at the Songhua Lake Resort in Ji Lin, China. Completed in 2017, the structure also functions as a flexible public space where exhibitions, meetings, workshops, and other events can take... View full entry
Global higher education analysis firm, Quacquarelli Symonds has released their 2018 rankings of the top universities in the world for the study of architecture and the built environment. Many of the leading names are university mainstays, with MIT topping the list for the fourth year in a row. Of... View full entry
Some treats should really go into an art gallery instead of your mouth.
Like these Brutalist-inspired delights by Danish designer and goldsmith Kia Utzon-Frank, which look like they've been chipped from the side of a concrete skyscraper.
— Mashable
If cold concrete surfaces AND sweet treats happen to be your kinda thang, then this is for you: London-based Danish designer/goldsmith Kia Utzon-Frank has developed her native country's flødeboller desserts in a béton brut look and now also offers masterclasses on how to make them... View full entry
Since last Thursday, thousands of educators and students across the UK have been protesting changes made to the pensions of university workers—a 40% cut to their USS pension scheme that the University and College Union says could cost staff up to half of their retirement income. The downgrade... View full entry
After breaking ground on its first-ever real estate project last fall (the aptly named Aston Martin Residences in downtown Miami), British automaker Aston Martin has unveiled never-before-seen renderings of the building’s amenity spaces. — Robb Report
Aston Martin's first venture into branded luxury real estate broke ground in Downtown Miami last fall and is expected to welcome its deep-pocketed residents in 2021. Until then, check out these new renderings of some of the amenities at the Aston Martin Residences tower. Aston Martin... View full entry
Downtown Boise in Idaho may soon have a new Main Library and civic center, which Safdie Architects and locally based firm CSHQA will be in charge of designing, following the Boise City Council's approval of a 12-week contract earlier this month. Located on Capitol Boulevard, the project is... View full entry
Love or hate Brutalism, many of these historic “concrete monsters” played a role in shaping the cities in which they were built. But today, many Brutalist structures face the risk of demolition. To raise awareness, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt teamed up with the... View full entry
School design has been pushed into the center of a heated national debate in the United States with a vocal minority calling for the 'hardening' of schools — enhanced security measures aimed at turning educational facilities into fortresses — and thus further disconnecting their spaces... View full entry
Fifteen Hudson Yards, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group, has now topped out and stands over 900 feet tall. This is the first tower within the 28-acre NYC site with for-sale residencies. Sales for the 285 condominiums have now surpassed 50%, with the... View full entry
[...] Richard Meier designed a house on a rocky site on Long Island Sound that exhibited many of the moves that would come to define his career. From the front, the Smith House—located in Darien, Connecticut, and completed in 1967—is a narrow, three-story white box. — Surface
Completed in 1967, Smith House was one of Richard Meier's earliest commissions and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Judging by a new set of images shot by photographer Mike Schwartz, the building with its light-flooded interior and floor-to-ceiling windows enabling stunning vistas of the... View full entry
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
