This post is brought to you by Azure Magazine An exceptional year, an incredible result: the internationally renowned jury of the 2020 AZ Awards has selected the very best from the 1,241 architecture and design entries we received – the highest number of submissions to date – from 47 countries... View full entry
Today's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include a lecture by Mark Foster Gage and panel on designing for a more resilient future, considering culture, place, materials, energy, climate, and carbon. Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour?... View full entry
Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini launches a conceptual design for a new protective face mask solution. The concept covers the entire face, providing a full shield for the user's most vulnerable areas. "Design has to give his contribution and designer’s responsibility is to share... View full entry
University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients. The Aydelott Travel Award and Prize have been awarded each year... View full entry
The Florida DOT (FDOT) announced last week that it will build a replacement for the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in March 2018 while under construction on the Florida International University campus in Miami. [...]
The department said that it will oversee and manage the construction of the new bridge and will incorporate the recommendations offered up by the National Transportation Safety Board [...].
— Construction Dive
The collapse of the pedestrian bridge on Florida International University's Miami campus killed six people in March 2018. View full entry
The University of New Mexico (UNM) has selected Robert Alexander González as the new Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. González comes to New Mexico from Texas Tech University (TTU), where he currently serves as the Director of the Architecture Program... View full entry
Los Angeles-based SPF:architects has completed a 5,000-square-foot renovation of a 1970s-era beachfront California modernist home designed by notable mid-century architect Jerrold E. Lomax. SPF:a's renovations for the home, which is located in Malibu, California among a tightly clustered... View full entry
Paris-based design studio Ubalt Architectes has redesigned a number of spaces at France's National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) as a part of its partnership with Adidas. The primary aim of the renovation was to create a sustainable and functional environment for the... View full entry
Today's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address issues from the climate crisis, resilience, health and wellness, and diversity and inclusion to equity, economy and environment and much more. Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour?... View full entry
At the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, students taking part in a Graduate Architecture Program seminar developed by U Penn Professor Ezio Blasetti have found a way to complete work fabricating design projects despite not being able to physically access the school's... View full entry
Construction work just resumed at the Shanghai site for the new Cofco Cultural and Health Center designed by Steven Holl Architects. The 80,944-sf facility combines medical spaces, a pharmacy and nursery with cultural functions, including a library, gym, exhibition area, cafe, and community areas... View full entry
As part of an ongoing investigation of remote work, WFH, and alternative business models during this pandemic, Sean Joyner talked with Evelyn Lee, an architect, design strategist and Senior Experience Designer at Slack (previously) about her organization, Practice of Architecture and their focus... View full entry
The further threat is that the pandemic becomes a rallying cry to maintain our sprawling fortress neighborhoods designed to foster exclusion rather than inclusion. We have an obligation to ignore the short-term reactionary impulse to blame density for the spread of the coronavirus and instead use this opportunity to rethink the policies that impede the construction of new housing, at more price levels, in the places where housing is most needed. — The New York Times
Writing in an Op-Ed published by The New York Times, Carol Galante, professor in affordable housing and urban policy and faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California Berkeley, makes the case for reinvigorating American approaches to affordable... View full entry
Los-Angeles based architecture visualization firm AVA Inclusivity has created a new Virtual Accessibility Experience (VAE) for Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, which was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019. According to Docomomo, AVA Inclusivity worked with members of the City of... View full entry
From Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have selected five practices for our latest weekly highlight of architectural employers. Check out these profiles and visit Archinect Jobs for more openings. Established in 1982, Canadian firm... View full entry