New York City has broken ground on the important new Battery Coastal Resilience project in Lower Manhattan. The critical $200 million component of the city’s larger Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency strategy is meant to protect 12,000 businesses and about 100,000 New Yorkers. It has been... View full entry
This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs features 16 Project Manager and Project Architect roles currently available in New York City. To explore specific job titles from the architectural profession, consult Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series. Also, follow our... View full entry
Marywood University in Pennsylvania has announced the first-ever undergraduate degree-granting academic program dedicated to training students in virtual architecture. The new Bachelor of Virtual Architecture (BVA) program is tailored to learners interested in careers building immersive... View full entry
The UK’s Loughborough University has accepted Thomas Heatherwick's challenge to ‘humanize’ and create ‘joyful’ architecture with a new academic offering: A master's degree aiming to give students the opportunity to take part in a burgeoning movement created to solve a global “urban... View full entry
Norway’s new Kunstsilo Museum has opened to the public in the southern port city of Kristiansand. The new home for the private collection of Nicolai Tangen is the product of a six-year transformation authored by Spanish studios Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida, and BAX in a... View full entry
New London Architecture has named the overall winner of the 2024 Don’t Move, Improve! competition in the culmination of the annual contest’s 15th edition.Emil Eve Architects’ Aden Grove renovation in Hackney was elevated above 15 others on the previously announced shortlist to win ‘Home of... View full entry
The Sou Fujimoto-designed wooden Grand Ring roof for the upcoming Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, is coming together just under a year before the fair officially opens to the public on April 13th, 2025. As detailed in an earlier construction update, the structure will be realized at 1,969 feet... View full entry
Much though the school’s director Penny Macbeth insists that “our commitment is not diminished in any way shape or form”, an implication of their current approach is that the building’s renewal has to be justified in terms of regeneration and tourism. It seems to reopen the question whether the rebuild should happen at all.
Lacking here is a conviction that the building must be brought back, whether or not it’s good for business on Sauchiehall Street.
— The Guardian
Moore also claims “the responsibility to bring back a national treasure should not be theirs alone” (meaning the school’s) in support of his view that setting up an SPV for development would be, for now, the best way to go in order to meet the original promises issued in 2018. Next... View full entry
Lloyd Wright's historic closed Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, will be disassembled in the face of irreparable landslide damage, the group responsible for its stewardship announced via a press release Tuesday. Architectural Resources Group will handle the disassembly... View full entry
WilkinsonEyre, together with Two Row, Zeidler, ARUP, and PLANT, has been awarded first place in the competition to deliver the new Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge in Toronto. The bridge is part of the third facet of a larger CAD $1.3 billion (USD $950 million) redevelopment of the city's Port... View full entry
A Grafton Architects-designed proposal for the new Library at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, has been selected over four other proposals in an international competition and is now advancing toward a 2026 construction start date. View full entry
The latest analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data for April from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) shows a 0.5% increase in construction input prices. For the month, nonresidential construction input prices increased by 0.6%. Overall construction and... View full entry
David Chipperfield Architects has just broken ground on a new corporate headquarters project for a South Korean IT company in Seoul. Construction for the new K-Project will advance toward a late 2027 completion and culminate in a new highly adaptable design that doubles as a piece of “social... 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, Kingston, New York, and Portland, Oregon. For even more opportunities, head over to the... View full entry
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship Class of 2025 cohort was announced this morning. Each mid-career professional will come to campus with a diverse background and abilities to reconstitute architecture around equity and resilience as they "harness the power of collective... View full entry
