The latest AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for November has recorded a second consecutive flat reading. The slight decrease to 49.6 indicates a near-equal balance between the number of firms experiencing a decrease in billings versus those seeing increases. Inquiries into new... View full entry
A challenger to The Shard’s title as the tallest skyscraper in the UK is moving forward with plans to construct a new building designed by Eric Parry Architects that will equal its record height of 309.6 meters (or 1,015.75 feet). The height is limited by aviation safety rules for the City of... View full entry
The Project Stress Index (PSI) composite closed November 2024 at 119.8, rising 14.7% from a revised October reading of 104.5. Sharp increases in on-hold (29.4%) and abandonment (31.9%) activity drove the month-over-month increase. The month's reading is a new high for the PSI following its August... View full entry
Following our previous look at an opening for a Preservation Architect at Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Chairperson of Graduate Architecture, Landscape... View full entry
The BBC is reporting on an effort led by family members of victims of the fatal 2017 Grenfell Fire tragedy to hold Studio E, the architectural firm responsible for its design, accountable in front of the UK’s Architects Registration Board (ARB). The action outlines Studio E... View full entry
The new David Rubenstein Treehouse conference center project from Studio Gang for Harvard University has topped out near its campus in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. What will become Harvard’s first-ever mass timber structure is included as part of the larger 36-acre Enterprise... View full entry
The South Korean-born academic, architect, and urban designer Sang Dae Lee has been awarded the 2024 American Prize for Architecture by both The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs, we are featuring five architecture and design firms with current openings in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Mill Valley, California. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job... View full entry
Evelyn Lee’s ascension to the 101st President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) was capped by her inauguration ceremony last week. The Bay Area-based architect and designer follows Kimberly Dowdell and Emily Grandstaff-Rice to become the third consecutive female architect to... View full entry
MAD Architects has unveiled The Never Hut, an interactive installation at the Guangdong Nanhai Land Art Festival 2024 in Yanqiao Village, Foshan City, China. Set in a village with over 600 years of history, the installation reimagines a former elementary school playground into a community space... View full entry
Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG) has received planning permission to build the new 670 Mesquit project in Downtown LA. Situated at the eastern edge of the Arts District overlooking the LA River, the four-building scheme yields 894 new residential units, a hotel, charter school, and more than... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has updated their progress on the Unicorn Island tech hub development in Chengdu, China. The 165.5-acre project delivers worker housing and office/research space for 70,000. Buildings are arranged in clusters and established "organically" along a radial distribution... View full entry
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have developed a 3D concrete printing process that captures and stores carbon dioxide (CO₂) during production. The method incorporates CO₂ and steam—by-products of industrial processes—into the concrete mix, where CO₂... View full entry
David Chipperfield Architects has just completed a three-building scheme for the larger La Confluence master plan in Lyon, France designed by Herzog & de Meuron. View of the office building from one of the garden courtyards. Image: © Simon Menges The program includes a small office... View full entry
A new pavilion design in Arkansas from Trahan Architects in a public park designed by Spackman Mossop Michaels is making space that encourages creative play while serving the greater needs of its community. Funding for the project was provided through the Walton Family Foundation Design... View full entry
