The American Architecture Prize is a global platform that honors innovation and creativity in architecture. The mission of AAP is to celebrate and endorse creativity, design excellence, innovation and exceptional achievements across architectural fields. With entries from all over the globe... View full entry
Yale has just completed two new residential colleges near the heart of campus: a superblock of neo-Gothic fantasy. This reversion to an archaic visual language exemplifies a troubling trend. With their new architecture, universities all too often abdicate leadership in promoting artistic innovation as they pander to plutocratic donors. — Places Journal
Columnist Belmont Freeman takes a critical look at Yale's RAMSA-designed Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College in his latest piece for Places. While Freeman marvels at their extraordinary evocation of tradition, he argues that their historicism represents a missed opportunity to... View full entry
The verdict is out! drMM Architects' Hastings Pier has won the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building. Regarded as the UK's most prestigious accolade in architecture, the Stirling Prize is awarded to the building that has “made the biggest contribution to the... View full entry
When the holiday season arrives (it's almost here, believe it or not), “Flatiron Reflection” will be a festive display in New York's Flatiron District for all to enjoy. Designed by Future Expansion Architects, the playful installation was announced last week as... View full entry
Danish firm 3XN has just been awarded their second project as part of the Bayside development on Toronto’s waterfront. Headed by real estate developer Tridel, the $1.1 billion dollar (CAD) redevelopment of the 13-acre former industrial site seeks to establish a vertical... View full entry
Spurred by concerns over climate change and the negative impacts of concrete manufacturing, architects and developers in France are increasingly turning to wood for their office towers and apartment complexes.
Concrete was praised through much of the 20th century for its flexibility, functionality, and relative affordability. [...] Today, however, wood is lauded for its smaller environmental footprint and the speed with which buildings can be assembled.
— Citylab
Steven Holl Architects—in collaboration with Rüssli Architekten—has won the international design competition for Doctors Without Borders' new Geneva Operational Center. Titled Colors of Humanity, the team's design beat out proposals from Pool Architekten, Mak Architecture, Sauerbruch... View full entry
Last week FixNation and Architects for Animals joined forces to raise funds for FixNation’s critical charitable services for Los Angeles’ homeless cats, including spaying and neutering (check out the projects from last year). To raise awareness cat shelters were designed and constructed by... View full entry
Pragmatic or fantastical, architectural visualizations illustrate the narrative behind a project. They hint at what may become a reality in people's neighborhoods or what helps a jury decide the winning concept in an ideas competition. Are architectural renderings your specialty? Archinect... View full entry
As we prepare to know the results of the RIBA Stirling Prize today, make sure you get to see the models of the shortlist (below), to get to know the designs behind it. As we enter into a new month, we see the close of Plywood and This Burning Land Belongs to You. Make sure you don't miss your... View full entry
The US-based Kwong Von Glinow Design Office, who have won a few competitions for their creative solutions to affordable housing, have released a proposal for a temporary pavilion in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Nursery Park. Titled the Primitive Pavilion, the project riffs on... View full entry
The public cast over 268,000 votes for the People’s Choice Award contest in the AIA's 2017 I Look Up Film Challenge, whose theme was “Blueprint for Better”. Paul-Vincent Alexander's “A Roof of Their Own” won with 122,527 votes. Brad Deal's “Pisces” was the... View full entry
Archinect is excited to announce a new partnership with PLANE—SITE, a Berlin-based creative agency working at the interface of urban form, cultural space and social life. Every three weeks, starting today, we will be sharing a video from the Time-Space-Existence project, a series of videos... View full entry
The exhibition “Fight for Beauty” is a physical manifestation of the book of the same name by Westbank founder Ian Gillespie, who Archinect previously interviewed here. Currently displayed near Vancouver's Fairmont Pacific Rim, the pop-up exhibition — just like the book — celebrates... View full entry
Philip Johnson and John Burgee's 1984 AT&T Building, for many, signaled the arrival of Postmodernism onto the world scene. Now known as the Sony Tower, the 37-story skyscraper's deployment of historicity contradicted the glass and metal modernism of its neighbors, signaling a new architectural... View full entry
