The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has announced the winners of its National Awards Program. Awards were bestowed to firms, individuals, and projects across awards categories including Designer of Distinction, Student of the Year, Educator of the Year, and Firm of the Year, among... View full entry
Since 2000, the Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship has provided architects, designers, researchers, and artists with the opportunities to investigate a specific topic/focus and develop a research project to teach during a nine-month residency at the Knowlton... View full entry
New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis. — The New York Times
The news comes after the revelation last week that a total of zero new housing starts were approved in Manhattan in the month of July. The Adams administration previously announced its desire to create 40,000 new residential units through the adaptive reuse of office buildings. The rezoned area... View full entry
It's time to let Archinect readers judge the graphic prowess of architecture schools again as they have showcased their lecture and public events programming in our ongoing Get Lectured series. As we prepare for the upcoming Fall term, which Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 lecture poster will win the... View full entry
Are you a mid-level architect or designer looking for a new job? For this week's curated jobs highlight, we feature 10 firms that are seeking intermediate architects and designers to join their teams. Featured below are job opportunities in New York and Los Angeles. With over 100+ new job listings... View full entry
Gensler Principal and Studio Director Steven Paynter sat down recently with financial news service Marketplace.org to detail his firm’s year-old proprietary office conversion metric, a unique tool that has become indispensable as the industry looks to position itself for the mass-scale... View full entry
The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled the longlist for its annual RIBA House of the Year award. The 20 projects on the longlist will soon be reduced to a six-project-strong shortlist which will be visited by a specialist jury to decide the winner. The award is given each year to... View full entry
Urban farms and communal spaces are among the ideas for repurposing car park floors in Melbourne’s skyscrapers in the future, when it is predicted that residents will rely more on driverless and shared electric cars.
The architects of Melbourne’s tallest building, Australia 108, have created designs envisioning the transformation of the building’s 10 levels of car parking into space for a vertical farm, beehives, water collection and storage, pet care, podcast studios, co-working and education.
— The Age
Downtown Melbourne's potential future scenario of widely-available self-driving cars has developers rethinking millions of square feet worth of parking garages, and vertical farms are seen as a solution (along with housing, retail, and dining options). An amendment to its planning rules that would... View full entry
Japan-based housing company Serendix has announced the completion of 'serendix50', a 3D printed house that forms part of the company’s mission of building homes that can be bought for the price of a car. Image credit: Serendix Serendix first made headlines in March 2022 with the creation of... View full entry
Construction starts rose a total of 17% for July to a seasonally-adjusted rate of $1.2 trillion, according to the just-released report from Dodge Construction Network. The latest data also indicated a 7% year-to-date drop in total construction starts when compared to the July 2022 totals... View full entry
HNTB and Multistudio have released details for a planned campus gateway district and athletics complex upgrades at the University of Kansas’ main flagship location in Lawrence. The project will cover the school’s existing 102-year-old David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and provide updated... View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight, we present five architecture and design firms with current job openings in New York/Long Island City, Boston, Phoenix, Aspen (Colorado), Jackson (Wyoming), Driggs (Idaho). For even more positions, visit the Archinect job board and browse our active... View full entry
3XN has shared photos of their nearly complete Copenhagen Children’s Hospital project in the Danish capital. Spanning 58,000 square meters (about 624,300 square feet), the design will yield a total of 219 beds for children, teens, and pregnant women, 15 operating rooms, 57 ambulatory care suites... View full entry
For Bustler's weekly curated picks of architecture and design competitions, we highlight four open calls inviting participants to "reimagine" an iconic I.M. Pei-designed college dorm through adaptive reuse, submit their best work to be considered emerging young architects by The Architectural... View full entry
This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc, an Archinect School Partner SCI-Arc is proud to present its annual Graduate Thesis Weekend, taking place September 8-10 at the school’s LA Arts District campus. In recognition of the exceptional talents that form the Graduate Thesis class of 2023, this... View full entry
