Our latest weekly curated jobs roundup from the Archinect Job board features 12 architecture, landscape, and interior design firms in New York City seeking early-career professionals. If you're a recent graduate or still fairly new to the workforce, be sure to read Archinect's Tips for Recent... View full entry
Architect and curator Beth Stryker has been appointed Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. The Utensil Art + Design Studio co-founder has extensive experience in arts administration, including a recent five-year tenure as the Executive and Artistic Director of a... View full entry
The first major American exhibition dedicated to late modernist pioneer Paul Rudolph is coming to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall. Organized by curator Abraham Thomas in collaboration with the Library of Congress’s Rudolph Archive, the show will trace the architect’s... View full entry
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has emerged as the winner of an international competition to design and deliver the new 108-story Smart City Financial Tower skyscraper in Hanoi, Vietnam. The mixed-use project will become the country's tallest building and is set to include a 'split core' solution... View full entry
The conclusion of an independent investigation into executive misconduct at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has yielded no evidence of wrongdoing, according to a statement published by the organization’s Board of Directors on Monday, August 26th. The report from law firm Miller &... View full entry
Just because the summer is winding down doesn't mean there's a shortage of exciting live events and activities in the architecture and design community. A slew of design festivals are taking place next month in locations such as Detroit, Atlanta, San Francisco, London, Paris, Helsinki, Sydney... View full entry
The Fall semester has started and that means it’s time for a look at the events and lectures taking place on campus as part of our Get Lectured series. Today, we’ll make a stop by the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Olafur Eliasson and Museum of Contemporary Art... View full entry
The White House’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has proposed its first Draft Program Comment aimed at providing federal agencies with alternatives to complying with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. If fully approved and adopted, the recommendations... View full entry
Henning Larsen has won an international competition to deliver a new green corridor design to Singapore in collaboration with Ramboll, Cistri, Gehl, Participate in Design, and Camphora. According to their announcement page, the North-South Corridor project includes four key sections, among them a... View full entry
Plans for a 54-story mixed-use tower from Foster + Partners in Miami are coming into focus with the release of new concept renderings depicting a new headquarters for the hedge fund Citadel. The tower will reportedly include 212 hotel rooms at its uppermost levels, preceded by a 34-floor office... View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs, we are featuring five architecture and design firms with current openings in Southold, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board and explore our active... View full entry
An upstart California property investment venture named Belwood Investments has announced the signing of a purchasing agreement for the Malibu home Tadao Ando designed for Richard Sachs (and later purchased by Kanye West) in 2013. News of the announcement was made public on Monday after the home... View full entry
The new mass timber HORTUS office project from Herzog & de Meuron is advancing towards completion in Allschwil, Switzerland. Construction will yield 600 workplaces and be fully offset after 31 years in use. The firm says it is “one of the most sustainable office buildings in the German-speaking... View full entry
More than 80 people had to be evacuated after a major fire broke out in east London early Monday, fire officials said. The blaze brought back painful memories of the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in the city in 2017.
The Dagenham building had “a number of fire safety issues” officials said. Notably, the mixed-use building had “noncompliant cladding,” according to a 2023 application for construction work.
— The New York Times
Responding to the Dagenham fire, the Times reported Grenfell United as saying, "This highlights the painfully slow progress of remediation across the country, and a lack of urgency for building safety as a whole." In a truly painful precursor, the yearslong criminal inquiry into the deadly... View full entry
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is the first American firm to partner with biotech startup Pneuma Bio on a new product line of carbon-sequestering materials made from microorganisms such as algae that can be used in commercial architecture and residential buildings. Their OXYA product line was... View full entry
