WeWork said Thursday that it was going to close roughly 40 “underperforming” locations in the United States and tempered its revenue forecast for the year, highlighting the challenges the co-working company still faces after its near collapse and subsequent bailout in 2019. — The New York Times
The company reported a pre-pandemic level matching 71% occupancy rate for Q3 but will fall short of previously projected revenue values for the year owing to “lower than expected” growth in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Its own S9-designed Dock 72 corporate offices in Brooklyn were also reduced... View full entry
Ten years removed from the tragic shooting that claimed the lives of 27 school children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, SWA Group has today officially unveiled a permanent memorial to the victims, called The Clearing, that will seek to heal the community, survivors, and family members still... View full entry
Dattner Architects recently celebrated the opening of a new 26-story affordable housing project in New York City it says sets a new standard for the application of one of the building industry’s most sustainable techniques in the design of high-rise apartment structures. Located in the Mott... View full entry
The Clemson University School of Architecture NOMAS has been selected as the National Organization of Minority Architects' (NOMA) student chapter of the year for 2022. Announced during NOMA's Nashville Unplugged Conference on October 28, they stood out among more than... View full entry
Passive house non-profit Phius has announced the results of their 2022 Passive Projects Design Competition, seeking to highlight the best passive projects across North America. The fourteen winning projects span high-rise new builds to retrofits, with sectors ranging from residential to commercial... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based RIOS, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York City this week, where we meet multi-disciplinary studio Marvel. From their studios in New York City, Richmond, Virginia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm has produced several... View full entry
The Architectural Review has named 15 residential projects to the shortlist for its 2022 AR House awards. Now in its 12th year, the awards program celebrates the art and craftsmanship that goes into designing private homes around the world. This year’s awards are being judged by ETH Zurich... View full entry
As architecture schools prepare for the 2023 academic year, faculty positions are open and accepting applications. Currently, over 35 schools have open faculty positions accepting applications listed on the Archinect Job board. For our latest weekly curated jobs round-up, we're... View full entry
The AIA California has named three projects as the winners of this year’s Urban Design Awards, which serve a survey of different methods being employed across the industry to “reclaim and reinvent” different urban landscapes nationwide. Connecticut native Doug Suisman took home the... View full entry
A new desktop city-building game has been launched which takes aim at the slow pace of housing construction in U.S. cities. Sim Nimby was developed by Brooklyn-based copywriters Steve Nass and Owen Weeks as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on what they view as 'NIMBYs' (Not In My Backyard neighbors)... View full entry
The Seattle chapter of the AIA has unveiled the winners of its 2022 Honor Awards, celebrating the work of architects based in the state of Washington. The 15 award winners were selected from 100 submissions and included both built, conceptual, and research-based work.The jury panelists, who hailed... View full entry
There is no housing shortage. There are over 400,000 empty homes in the UK, and about 200,000 homeless people. The vast majority of empty homes are in parts of the country which have become depopulated because of economic decline – in the Midlands, the north, and coastal cities. So the solution to the housing crisis isn’t building tons of homes. It’s about reviving the economy in those places, launching a massive retrofit campaign, and bringing people back.” — The Guardian
“We could end the housing crisis overnight, if we wanted to,” Barber told Oliver Wainwright in a recent interview, referring to the private grab on council housing that has developed unabated since the Thatcher administration's Right-to-Buy laws came into effect in 1980. “We should... View full entry
In France, solar just got a huge boost from new legislation approved through the Senate this week that requires all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – be covered by solar panels. — electrek
Starting on July 1, 2023, parking lots that have between 80 and 400 spaces will have five years to comply with the new measures. Those with more than 400 spaces will need to comply within three years, with at least half of the surface area of the parking lot needing to be covered in solar... View full entry
The winner of the Co-designing Equity in the Public Realm design competition has been announced by the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the City of London Corporation, Culture Mile, and the Foundation for Future London. The challenge called for temporary public realm interventions in... View full entry
In the last two years, apartment conversions jumped by 25% compared to two years prior. More precisely, this increasingly popular real estate niche brought a total of 28,000 new rentals in 2020-2021, well above the pre-pandemic years of 2018-2019 when 22,300 apartments were brought to life through adaptive reuse. — RentCafe.com
The new data set from real estate researchers Yardi Matrix gives some additional context to the information in yesterday’s 2022 AIA Firm Survey, which said that almost half (48%) of all projects currently being pursued by U.S. firms involve the renovation, rehabilitation, extension, or... View full entry
