London's annual Serpentine Pavilion is gearing up for its grand opening on Friday with a first preview of this year's completed design by Korean architect Minsuk Cho. Envisioned together with his Seoul-based firm Mass Studies, the 23rd annual summer pavilion, titled Archipelagic Void... View full entry
Eduardo Souto de Moura has debuted a new timepiece collection for the Swiss watchmaker Cauny. His sober grayscale design evokes both the contemporary and classical with an “ironic” modern use of Roman numerals and a polished steel case. Its wrist strap is made of German leather. Image... View full entry
Things are looking up (way up) this week for what may become North America’s new tallest building: Southern California-based firm AO announced in a social media post today that the Oklahoma City Council had approved the development team's request for unlimited building height for the proposed... View full entry
In a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Associated Builders and Contractors, national nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.3% in April to a seasonally adjusted total of $1.20 trillion. It follows March's slight increase of 0.2%. Spending fell on a monthly basis in 10 of the... View full entry
Montreal-based firm Pelletier de Fontenay has designed a new entrance pavilion at the Montreal Botanical Garden. This project comes alongside the revitalization of the Garden’s insectarium and the entrance to the surrounding Parc Maisonneuve. Image: James Brittain The pavilion was... View full entry
Philadelphia’s Forman Arts Initiative (FAI) announced that it has bought and is developing almost a whole block in the city’s West Kensington neighbourhood as a museum and community centre—with help from the artist Theaster Gates and local architects Digsau and Ian Smith Design Group. The campus will open in stages over the next two years, starting later this summer with a public outdoor space. — The Art Newspaper
Gates is also currently, among many other things, involved in a community revitalization effort for the new St. Laurence Arts Incubator in Chicago and National Museums Liverpool's waterfront development in partnership with Asif Khan. Listen back to our Archinect Sessions podcast conversation with... View full entry
The big beasts of London’s Elizabeth line and King’s Cross redevelopment loom large, but newly announced regional contenders for this year’s prize should include a classy Cambridge dining hall, an all-timber office block and a wheelchair-friendly rural retreat — The Guardian
While the official announcement of the annual Stirling Prize for the best new building in the UK is still months away (find the results here in October), architecture critic Rowan Moore just published his customary hot take on the contenders that have been released so far. Picking from a... View full entry
South Korea's Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism just announced that Thomas Heatherwick will be the General Director of its fifth iteration next year. Billed as Asia's biggest architecture biennial, the 2025 program seeks to explore "how to make buildings and cities radically more joyful... View full entry
When Melvalean McLemore earned her license to practice architecture in 2016, she was only the 16th Black woman in Texas to do so.
McLemore became the first Black woman president of the American Institute of Architects Houston chapter late last year [...]. While being first is exciting, McLemore said it was a bittersweet feeling.
“It’s a little bit sad to hear that someone is the first of anything in 2023, 2024,” McLemore said.
— Bisnow
Bisnow recently interviewed Melvalean McLemore, AIA Houston President, Moody Nolan Texas studio design leader, and a 2024 AIA Young Architects Award recipient; discussing her path to architecture and the lack of Black women in architecture. "There are still less than three dozen Black female... View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs, we are featuring four architecture and design firms with current openings in Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Aspen, and Basalt, Colorado. For even more opportunities, head over to the Archinect job board and explore our active... View full entry
Renovations on the home of Real Madrid, the legendary Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, have been completed by German architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, the firm announced recently via its social media channels. Construction photo by Miguel de Guzmán/Imagen Subliminal The five-year, $... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Connecticut-based Beinfield Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to California this week to explore the work of Abramson Architects. Based in Los Angeles, the firm has built a portfolio based on an “earnest desire to elevate the human... View full entry
This month, Wayfarers Chapel is being dismantled, an emergency attempt to save the structure’s irreplaceable redwood, steel and stone components in the wake of a devastating landslide. By taking it apart now, before it’s too twisted and broken to ever reconfigure, the chapel’s leaders hope to give it a second life someday on stable ground. They don’t have the cash yet for a rebuild, but they’re doing what they can at this critical moment: spending nearly half a million dollars on triage. — The Guardian
The group responsible for the Wayfarers Chapel announced its closure and plans to dismantle earlier this year following months of "accelerated land movement" beneath its 3.5-acre site in the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes. The Guardian says the city is "working with chapel leaders... View full entry
Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC has shared new photos of their recently completed Kaohsiung Port Terminal project in Taiwan’s busiest commercial port. The nearly eight-year construction exemplifies the firm’s conception of “3D Urbanism,” breaking apart the design vertically... 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 Doors & Gates. Tip: Use the handy FOLLOW... View full entry
