The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has issued a new report detailing a troubling new phenomenon affecting small office practitioners in the UK. The Architects’ Journal has details on some of the newfound challenges for design contracts from those not included on the UK’s official... View full entry
Philadelphia-based studio Monument Lab has been announced as the curatorial leader of a new public art installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The pilot exhibition of the Trust’s new Beyond Granite series will be on view for a month (August 18th to September 18th) and feature... View full entry
The AIA Los Angeles' annual awards program recognizes another stellar group of organizations and individuals making impactful contributions to the city and community of Los Angeles. The Board of Directors Awards, formerly known as the "Presidential Honor Awards," celebrates a total of 12 winners... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Designer at Boffi, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for a Public Interest Design (PID) Fellowship at the University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit Collaborative Design Center. The... View full entry
The AIA New York | Center for Architecture has announced three participants for the institution’s new multi-disciplinary Center for Architecture Lab residency program for 2023. The Center says: “Lab encourages our community to consider outside perspectives, critical questions, and... View full entry
A lot of work has gone into it. It’s like a painting. So the glass is offset in places to take the light a certain way and separate that surface from the rest of the building. A lot of care has gone into organizing that visually. It’ll become apparent over the years. You’ll see it and you’ll say: Oh, that’s what he was doing. — The New York Times
Gehry, whose family left Toronto for Los Angeles in 1947, also detailed his misgivings at the city’s contemporary development. The landscape has taken an even more markedly vertical turn since the beginning of 2021 thanks to a “race to the top” among developers (including the backers of the... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects has opened an exhibition at the Guardian Art Center in Beijing to mark the firm’s 15 years of delivering projects in China. Titled ‘The New World,’ the exhibition charts ZHA’s “advances in design and construction technologies” through “fluid geometries... View full entry
An up-close look at the architectural remains of some of the most famed designs the St. Louis metro area has lost to the ages will take over the city’s Pulitzer Arts Foundation this fall with the opening of Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis on September 8th. The exhibition... View full entry
Henning Larsen’s master plan for a new campus extension for the University of the Faroe Islands has been selected as the winner of an international competition that included BIG, Cobe, and three other designs from leading firms. The scheme incorporates mass timber as its featured material and... View full entry
Former USC School of Architecture Dean (2017–22) Milton S.F. Curry will be joining Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) as its new Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Architecture. Curry's new... View full entry
Our latest weekly roundup of featured architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs includes exciting new openings in New York City/Brooklyn, Los Angeles/Santa Monica, and Greenwich, Connecticut. More job opportunities can be found at Archinect Jobs, where you will be able to... View full entry
Niall Patrick Walsh spoke with Neil Leach, author of Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects, as part of the ongoing Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series. Therein he provocatively suggests: "I think the model of the self-driving car is... View full entry
Earlier this year, the Bustler team reported on the upcoming projects set to be featured at the 24th edition of the International Garden Festival at Reford Gardens in Grand-Métis, Quebec. This year's theme, ROOTS, invited designers to "imagine a present and a future that is ecologically... View full entry
These conversions seem like a win-win: turning a plethora of barely used office space into desperately needed urban housing.
But converting offices into apartments is easier said than done. And while it's easy to imagine the process behind conversions, like adding in walls and plumbing, it gets complicated.
— NPR
Various cities across the United States have been turning to office-to-residential conversions as a way to address declining city cores that have yet to reach pre-pandemic levels. As noted by NPR, San Francisco is making way for these conversions by adjusting current building codes and getting rid... View full entry
New Jersey took a significant step Friday as it seeks to block New York’s congestion pricing plan with a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
Gov. Phil Murphy, standing behind a podium that read “FIGHTING AN UNFAIR CONGESTION TAX,” said at a morning press conference that he hopes the lawsuit triggers an environmental impact statement delaying the program.
— SILive.com
New York City's new congestion pricing plan was finally approved on a federal level last month following years of debate that began under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday that he wants to prevent pollution from the... View full entry
