The forthcoming Frida Escobedo-led Tang Wing design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been revealed as a five-story expansion totaling 126,000 square feet and to be completed by 2030 after a $550 million capital campaign. The new home of the Met’s modern and contemporary art holdings... View full entry
Look below for Archinect's latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs. This week's featured employer highlight includes openings in New York City, Toronto, and San Francisco/Redwood City. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board... View full entry
Buildner has published the results from the fifth edition of the popular Museum of Emotions competition. By pairing architectural concepts with the inner dimensions of human life and the psyche, the competition offers a unique challenge to designers to create a museum space used to express and... View full entry
The biggest challenges, especially as I’ve encountered while developing the Linear Urban Forest, are the upfront costs, the inconvenience factor of construction and retrofitting older infrastructures with technologically innovative features. There is also a lack of awareness about using the landscape to lessen the damage of climate change. — The New York Times
Schwartz worked for SWA Group in the 1970s and early 80s before launching her own practice in New York in 1983. She says she chose landscape architecture principally because "I didn’t have enough money to buy a tract of land where I could create land art projects" (a movement her... View full entry
HOK has revealed further details of their modular vertiport design for future flying car race events. As we reported in October, the project was developed for the UK-registered company Airspeeder which describes its mission as “to build the ultimate performance flying car” to “define a new... View full entry
Plans for what would become the tallest skyscraper in the United States—AO’s proposed Legends Tower for Oklahoma City—are now facing an impediment after being labeled as a potential aviation danger in a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from a group called the... View full entry
The BBC is reporting that a proposal from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for what will be the first all-wood soccer stadium design in the world is finally moving forward after planning approvals were granted in Nailsworth, UK. We covered its initial announcement back in 2016, when it was... View full entry
"That’s success,” Villeneuve said. "If I can make (cathedral visitors) doubt there was ever a fire, then I’ve erased the horror.” — National Catholic Reporter
The landmark reopened over the weekend to cap a headline-grabbing year for the French capital. Archinect has followed the process of recovery and restoration since the first reports of the fire broke on April 15th, 2019. Villeneuve told reporters: "This wasn’t about me, but I’ve left my mark... View full entry
MASS Design and the New York-based Marble Fairbanks Architects are behind a new library project in Brooklyn that combines restorative justice with the needs of the community into one dynamic 25,000-square-foot design. The forthcoming New Lots Library will be realized on a site historically... View full entry
Starts of new multifamily apartment buildings in 2024 have fallen dramatically to 2013 levels, according to an analysis of data taken from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau from the Texas-based Madera Residential. Nationwide, there were a total of 804,000 units under construction by the end of... View full entry
A new higher ed project for Southern California’s Claremont McKenna College from BIG has been updated on the way to its previously announced completion next fall. The 135,000-square-foot design for the Robert Day Sciences Center targets LEED Gold certification while bringing better quality... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Laney LA, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York City this week to explore the work of WORKac. Co-founded by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the firm has amassed a portfolio that includes public, cultural, and civic projects... View full entry
With the official opening of Expo 2025 Osaka just over five months away, organizers have shared a dramatic aerial video of its finally illuminated ring structure. The wooden Grand Ring structure designed by Sou Fujimoto is equal to 1,969 feet (600 meters) in diameter, serving as the main... 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 Outdoors. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature... View full entry
Chere Rexroat, the ex-acting Architect of the Capitol who replaced Brett Blanton after a scandal involving personal misuse of the office and title, has filed suit against the agency alleging that she was unfairly passed over for a permanent Deputy Architect role during the new candidate... View full entry