A well-deserved tribute to the influential late Italian businessman and multihyphenate designer Paolo Pininfarina, who passed away unexpectedly this April at the age of 65, has come in the form of the 2024 American Prize for Design. His selection as its newest laureate was announced by The Chicago... View full entry
MAD Architects has unveiled a captivating installation that resembles a bubble being gently blown from a traditional wooden structure. Called the “Ephemeral Bubble,” the project was created for the 2024 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, an outdoor art exhibition held every three years in... View full entry
The bigger picture of RIOS’s massive The 1901 Project proposal on Chicago’s West Side came into focus today as part of a planned $7 billion redevelopment of areas surrounding the United Center. The 55-acre site is set to be transformed into a mix of retail, entertainment, and residential... View full entry
School is out of session for the summer, but Vassar College’s new Center for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices is on our minds after a recently completed project from L.E.FT Architects restored the existing Pratt House into a campus hub for student’s... View full entry
Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs: This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in New York City, Los Angeles, and Charleston, South Carolina. For even more opportunities, head over to the Archinect job... View full entry
This summer, outside of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the museum’s famous forecourt area will be the site of a timely skatepark activation by local artist Raphaël Zarka. His new Cycloïde Piazza installation is meant to connect young Parisian skate enthusiasts and forms a key part of the... View full entry
What’s the typical future teenager’s room going to look like? A current exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center explores that very question with a number of surprising answers relating to the influence social media, sustainability, and mental health concerns have all had on interior... View full entry
Santiago Calatrava has been named the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 2024 recipient of the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award. In receiving the annual distinction, he joins SOM engineer John Zils, the winner of this year's Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement... View full entry
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has shared its updated recommendations for modernizing the process of environmental reviews using new digital technologies. The 78-page report issued last week includes recommended steps and other guidances to complement projects pursued... View full entry
The forthcoming ATX Tower project in Austin from Handel Architects in partnership with Page celebrated its topping-out ceremony last week. The mixed-use, 425,000-square-foot design includes 369 high-end apartments and over 100,000 square feet of workspaces in a distinctive 58-story silhouette that... View full entry
Safdie Architects has shared photos of their latest contribution to Shanghai's Luwan district, the new LuOne Mixed-Use Complex, after its construction was completed in the past year. Featuring an eight-story bronze colonnade-lined retail component and a 35-story office tower, the project... View full entry
Following our previous visit to New York-based WXY Architecture + Urban Design, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to California this week to explore the work of Yu2e, Inc. The architecture and engineering firm has built a portfolio grounded in private single-family residential... View full entry
Bernard Tschumi’s inspirational five-decade career in building has garnered the coveted Grand Prix d’Architecture honor for 2024. The Prize was announced earlier this month by the French Académe des Beaux-Arts in Paris in recognition of the overall breadth and body of his work, which includes... View full entry
Last year's devastating wildfires in California and Hawaii once again came into focus as part of a New York Times exposé on the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (I.B.H.S.)-led movement towards the “biggest overhaul of building standards in more than 30 years.” Burn... View full entry
With its focus on mobility, greenery and renovation, the overarching legacy of the Paris Olympics looks set to be more promising than most, ultimately helping to stitch long-severed suburbs into the centre. The mental geography of most Parisians will expand, for the better. Perhaps that’s the most that could be hoped for: with its emphasis on speed and reliance on private developers, the Olympics can hardly be a vehicle for more equitable forms of development. — The Guardian
Oliver Wainwright unpacks the City of Lights’ vision for a green (some might say ‘greenwashed’) 2024 Olympic Games while complimenting some of the new architectural designs from Ateliers 2/3/4/, Kengo Kuma, and others. No survey would be complete, of course, without a site visit to the... View full entry
