Four new UK residential developments have advanced to the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing shortlist. The RIBA unveiled the finalist projects today, stating that "this year’s shortlisted projects demonstrate social housing that blends quality design, community regeneration, and meaningful... View full entry

The Guardian reports that the mystery of how the Crystal Palace was built in just 190 days has been solved, crediting the success to a highly innovative building process. Joseph Paxton, the architect, employed a modular design using prefabricated iron and glass components, which were mass-produced... View full entry

Twenty-six CEOs from some of the world’s most influential landscape architecture firms have publicly committed to making their profession zero emissions by 2040, aligning with the goals set out in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA Climate Action Plan). Collectively generating... View full entry

Inspired by the natural architecture of human bone, engineers at Princeton University have developed a new cement-based material that significantly enhances the toughness of traditional concrete. This innovative material resists cracking and sudden failure, making it a promising solution for more... View full entry

A team led by Liu Kecheng Design Studio and the People’s Architecture Office (PAO) has completed a regeneration and redesign of an old porcelain factory in the Imperial Kiln Historic District of Jingdezhen, China. Using what PAO calls a ‘Plugin Architecture’ approach, the project saw the... View full entry

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which kicked off on September 15th, this week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights 10 exciting job opportunities at Latinx-owned firms across the country. To see and keep up with the range of roles at firms run by or... View full entry

Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Newil&Bau, has opened a new multifamily development in Finland's capital called Meander Housing. The September 12th inauguration marks the end of a journey that first began in 2006 and underwent a period of dormancy before being constructed in just... View full entry

The newest AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index reporting has shown a continued stasis of weak conditions for firms nationally. The August ABI is now 45.7, down from the 48.2 figure that was recorded for July (any score below 50.0 indicates a decline). This is now the nineteenth... View full entry

The Prix Versailles has revealed its list for the 2024 edition of the World's Most Beautiful Emporiums List. Each is said to exhibit a number of sustainable credentials and will next compete against other category winners for one of three 2024 World Titles – Prix Versailles, Interior and... View full entry

This post is brought to you by Harvard GSD Executive Education Every building tells a story. These stories are grounded in our emotional connection to architecture. Our built environment protects us, surrounds us, defines us, and gives us a place to live our lives. The better you understand a... View full entry

Following our previous look at an opening for a Store Planning Designer at Kering Beauté, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Transportation Project Manager at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The role, based in New York... View full entry

Here’s a reminder not to miss the upcoming opening kick-off for the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Gala Porras-Kim exhibition The motion of an alluvial record on Thursday, September 19th in New York City. You can get a first look at Porras-Kim's atmospheric installation, which... View full entry

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)’s Taikang Financial Centre is off and running in Wuhan, China. The construction update posted this past week to the firm’s Instagram shows progress on three ultimately glass-enclosed cores separated by a lush "urban canyon" that envelopes skybridge-connected towers... View full entry

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first independent commission in River Forest, Illinois has hit the local real estate market for just under $2 million. The historic 1894 Winslow House was the young architect’s first after leaving Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago office, reports Blair Kamin.  Christie’s... View full entry

Jean Nouvel has put forth a new plan for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris. The adaptive reuse project, which was announced Tuesday by the 40-year-old private foundation, will take shape within an existing Haussmann-era building on the Place du Palais-Royal across from... View full entry