The Rotterdam-based institute of architecture, design, and culture Het Nieuwe Instituut ("The New Institute") announces Aric Chen as its new General and Artistic Director. Currently, Chen is based in Shanghai as the professor and founding Director of the Curatorial Lab at the... 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 Kitchen Spaces. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW... View full entry
The Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (maat) launched in October 2016 as an international design institution championing discourse and creative practice to "inspire new understandings of the historical present and an empowering engagement with the common future." The riverfront... View full entry
The developers of Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami, planned as the city’s tallest residential tower at 100 stories, are launching sales, The Real Deal has learned.
The luxury project, at 300 Biscayne Boulevard, will be the highest skyscraper south of Manhattan at 1,049 feet tall, the developers said. Property Markets Group, Greybrook Realty Partners and Hilton are partnering on the tower.
— The Real Deal
The ambitious project first appeared on Archinect as 300 Biscayne back in 2017. According to The Real Deal, Canada-based Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott designed the 1,049-foot-tall (320 meters) tower, and Sieger Suarez is the architect of record. A Waldorf Astoria-branded condo doesn't come cheap... View full entry
The Church, a nonprofit arts center in Sag Harbor, N.Y., founded by the artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik, will begin to welcome visitors on April 15. Two tours of the center, a former Methodist church built in 1832, will be offered daily, Thursday through Monday. — The New York Times
After housing the Methodist Church of Sag Harbor from the early eighteen-hundreds until 2008, the historic structure was recently renovated by New York firm SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership. The 12,000-square-foot adaptive reuse intervention created flexible spaces for exhibition as well... View full entry
With remote work set-ups and Zoom interviews, searching for a job is a bit different in 2021. With Covid-19 health and safety regulations transitioning as vaccine rollouts occur, firms seek talented architects and designers to join their team. However, if you're on the hunt for a new job Archinect... View full entry
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas announced today that it is planning an expansion overseen by its original architect, Moishe Safdie, that will allow significantly more room for showcasing its collection and for education, cultural programming and community events. — The Art Newspaper
Ten years after the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in Bentonville, Arkansas, Safdie Architects has been tasked to lead a major expansion project that will increase the size of the institution by roughly 50%, adding new galleries, educational facilities, and community spaces... View full entry
Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the London-based studio Cooking Sections explore food systems through architecture, ecology, visual arts, and geopolitics. Featured in the second issue of Archinect's print publication Ed Issue 2, The Architecture of Disaster... View full entry
A group of four early-career architects has emerged as the finalists for the 2021 Wheelwright Prize. Organized by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design for the ninth time this year, the $100,000 traveling fellowship seeks to support innovative forms of architectural research. Previous... View full entry
More cities are incorporating biophilic design approaches for several reasons. While some firms genuinely practice regenerative and sustainable design methods, others could be placed into the category of "greenwashing" to satisfy trends and bolster their firm's PR efforts. However, according to... View full entry
Strict supervision over every construction process must be exercised, building materials economized in every way with high demand, accidents of all kinds prevented and excellent construction experience introduced... — Reuters
Looks like bombs aren't the only things Kim Jong Un is building. And, aren't we more dynamite-centric on the subject matter? Now that they have the know-how... We will need to remember something we have *forgotten. *Public housing. View full entry
In keeping with Robert Hughes's dictum that architecture is "the art you live in," a remarkable Ai Weiwei-designed house dubbed "living art" by some is reported to have sold this week to an unnamed buyer for the jaw-dropping price of $4.9 Million. Tsai Residence, with guest house... View full entry
Trends involving remote workspaces have heightened since 2020. While businesses worldwide learned to adjust and create remote working spaces that work best for them, architectural designer and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Agnieszka Białek, proposes a workspace alternative... View full entry
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected three contests and one call for submissions inviting spatial utopias, youthful perspectives of the world, designs for a Cold War Veterans Memorial, and innovative urban concepts for 40 sites... View full entry
Not so long ago, density was promoted as a way to enliven underpopulated cities, particularly their downtowns. Then it became a tool for fighting climate change. Now, density is increasingly seen as an equity issue. [...]
Two notorious projects help us understand the difference between density that enhances a neighborhood and projects that big-foot their surroundings.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
In her latest column for the Inquirer, architecture critic Inga Saffron dissects two new mid-rise apartment building projects at opposite ends of Philadelphia (the "poop building and the Scrooge building," as she nicknames them) and how their individual approaches toward urban densification can... View full entry
