The Royal Academy of Arts in London has named Taller Gabriela Carrillo the winner of the 2023 Dorfman Award. The £10,000 prize (est. $12,300 USD) is awarded annually to an individual, architectural collective, or practice that is working at the leading edges of the design field to... View full entry
Archinect's latest weekly roundup of featured architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs includes new open roles in New York City, Portland, Seattle, and Basel, Switzerland. More exciting job opportunities can be found on the Archinect job board, and you can explore our... View full entry
Construction of the lingering suicide prevention upgrades is wrapping up on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The project's long road to culmination was covered by the New York Times recently as contractors work to finish installing the netting system, which was more than 80% in place as of... View full entry
Buildner has announced the winners of the 2023 Architect's Sugar Architectural Visualization Award competition. Now in its second year, the challenge called for participants to "communicate their ideas solely through visuals, without any text." As part of Buildner's silent competition series... View full entry
Reuters is reporting that construction on the forthcoming 64-story Elbtower Tower project in Hamburg, Germany, from David Chipperfield Architects has been halted over a payment dispute between its client Signa and a local builder. The news came last week after more than two years of construction... View full entry
Studio Gang and SCAPE have shared new photos following the completion of work on their $61 million Tom Lee Park redevelopment project in Memphis, Tennessee. The 31-acre riverfront space puts Memphis squarely in league with a host of contemporary restorative urban green space projects slated for... View full entry
Google has scrapped a $15 billion development deal that would have benefitted California’s Silicon Valley with new modern office parks, affordable housing, and mixed-use districts, according to reports published by CNN and Reuters late Friday. The deals struck with Australian multinational... View full entry
Architecture schools are seeking new candidates for their latest round of upcoming fellowships! Opportunities like these provide a blend of research and practice that help support the goals of emerging designers and academics through employment. Check out our latest list of featured fellowships... View full entry
Page has announced its acquisition of New York-based studio Davis Brody Bond in a move that will consolidate two well-known firms with long track records of success in the regional market into one entity with more than twenty offices in the U.S. and abroad. The move was announced on... View full entry
Austin on Thursday became the largest city in the country to stop requiring new developments to have a set amount of parking — a move aimed at both fighting climate change and spurring more housing construction amid the city’s affordability crisis. The Austin City Council voted 8-2 Thursday to wipe out minimum parking requirements for virtually every kind of property citywide. That includes single-family homes, apartment buildings, offices and shopping malls. — The Texas Tribune
As noted by The Texas Tribune, housing advocates, developers, and climate activists have increasingly advocated for the erasure of parking requirements, which have been found to drive up housing costs and fuels a dependency on cars. Cities across the country in recent years, including Portland... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Fancy Facades. Tip: Use the handy FOLLOW... View full entry
Preservation has really become more of a commonly held value. I think of my first years, when we were fighting to save the Herald Examiner building. Fighting to save the Ambassador Hotel. Fighting to save the May Company. The Herald Examiner was going to be torn down for a parking lot, which seems so strange now. But that’s how little value people placed on these buildings and their history. — The New York Times
Linda Dishman’s tenure at the helm of the Los Angeles Conservancy has seen major gains for the preservation of Paul Revere Williams’ nearly forgotten legacy, the LA Coliseum, and several important Welton Becket designs, among other newsworthy accomplishments. Adrian Scott Fine will... View full entry
If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Highlighted here are four calls inviting proposals for student-led development programs in North American cities, temporary winter art installations... View full entry
Buildner has shared the results of the third edition of its Museum of Emotions competition. The brief challenged designers to show how architecture can be used as a tool to evoke emotion, resulting in a concept that displays juxtaposed positive and negative emotions in one two-hall... View full entry
Florida International University has shared the results of its annual "Walk on Water" competition. The contest puts second-year architecture students through a water gauntlet for a chance to earn an ‘A’ grade should their aquatic designs successfully carry them across the 232-foot-wide lake... View full entry
