Located in a region with the fastest growing demand for international travel, an expansion for the congested Beijing Daxing International Airport was much needed. Zaha Hadid Architects designed the newly inaugurated airport to meet the needs of the city's booming population and to be adaptable for... View full entry
As more people order food to eat at home, and as delivery becomes faster and more convenient, the apps are changing the very essence of what it means to operate a restaurant.
No longer must restaurateurs rent space for a dining room. All they need is a kitchen — or even just part of one.
— The New York Times
Food delivery apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub are reshaping the $863 billion restaurant industry in the United States, according to The New York Times, as delivery-only "virtual restaurants" take off. The New York Times reports that over 4,000 virtual restaurants and "ghost... View full entry
Archtober 2019, New York City's month-long festival of architecture & design, is only days away now. As in previous years, the festival calendar also features exclusive tours and events again at nearly 30 Buildings of the Day in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island... View full entry
Few things are as embarrassing for an architect than having a building you’ve designed spring a leak. Unfortunately for Santiago Calatrava, that is exactly what's happened at the World Trade Center Oculus, a $3.9 billion transit hub built to memorialize the September 11th terrorist... View full entry
"Now nearly double the size of its original version with a higher ceiling and more natural light, Apple Fifth Avenue is a brighter, more expansive space, and the perfect stage for customers to discover and try Apple’s newest products...It remains the only Apple retail location open 24 hours a... View full entry
Are you interested in designing housing? If so, we've got you covered. Ranging from high-end residential projects to mixed-use housing and community-focused housing initiatives, these nine firms are seeking the right candidates to join their team. Guggenheim Architecture + Design... View full entry
Microsoft, King County and the King County Housing Authority will invest $245 million to provide affordable rents for more than 3,000 low- and middle-income residents through the purchase of five apartment complexes.
King County housing authority will buy apartment complexes in Kirkland, Bellevue and Federal Way to ensure that the residents aren’t faced with skyrocketing rental costs seen across the region, the organizations announced Thursday morning.
— The Seattle Times
The 1,029 units purchased in the deal are, according to The Seattle Times, located in areas rich in "naturally occurring affordable housing" that are also particularly vulnerable to displacement. Microsoft loaned the King County Housing Authority. $60 million for the effort; The... View full entry
It's the most wonderful time of the year — for hiring and seeking a new job, that is. If you're determined to find your next job ASAP during peak hiring season, why not begin your search with last week's Employer of the Day featured firms? From branding strategies to retail spaces to... View full entry
As the semester steadily progresses forward, NCARB has provided architecture students with a couple of tips to help capitalize on the new school year. Below are 7 quick points from NCARB: Start your NCARB Record. Logging experience hours toward the Architectural Experience Program (AXP) is an... View full entry
A lot of times those still in school and even those actively searching for a job want to know what can be done to heighten the chances of being selected for an opportunity. One frequently untapped strategy is capitalizing on the informational interview. In a simple sense, this is merely... View full entry
"Having built projects in the U.S. will eventually take away the novelty and reinforce that tall wood buildings are held to the same standards for safety and performance as buildings made from other materials," Parsons told Construction Dive. "This is happening in Europe, where tall wood buildings have been built for many years." — Construction Dive
The Milwaukee Plan Commission and the Neighborhoods and Development Committee recently approved changes to New Land Enterprises' Ascent project, a wood tower that is due to be the tallest of its kind in North America, Construction Dive reports The Korb + Associates-designed tower was... View full entry
About 450 houses have been sold so far at Riverstone and 73 at Tesoro Viejo, which already has a school (Hillside Elementary) plus a cafe and fire/sheriff’s substation in its fledgling “town center.” Together, these “master-planned communities” along with other proposed developments with names like Gunner Ranch West, North Shore at Millerton and TraVigne form what Madera County officials project will be a city of 120,000 people. — The Fresno Bee
California's urban housing crisis, fueled by lackluster housing production in the state's population centers, is fueling sprawl that is eating up wilderness and agricultural land around cities like Fresno. Madera County supervisor Brett Frazier told The Fresno Bee, “The assumption was this... View full entry
Reiser + Umemoto have followed up their previous monograph, Atlas of Novel Tectonics, with a new tome: Projects and Their Consequences. The monograph, published by Princeton Architectural Press, includes interviews and essays as well as more than 400 original drawings collages, and... View full entry
In this new large-scale work...visitors are immersed within a vast chronological landscape mapping pivotal shifts in human perspective over 75 millennia...the locations and moments represent a personal and subjective cartography and have been chosen by Devlin and her studio team to invoke our collective memories/history and to provoke dialogue and debate. — Pitzhanger
The Es Devlin: Memory Palace exhibition, designed by Es Devlin, the famous interdisciplinary stage designer who was featured in the first season of Abstract, is an 18-meter-wide sculpture that fills the entire Pitzhanger Gallery space and is accompanied by mirrored planes that exaggerate its... View full entry
Sou Fujimoto Architects has unveiled a proposal for the firm's first project in the New York City. The Collective, as the 10-story residential mixed-use development is known, is set to rise in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. When completed, the project will bring 440 housing units and... View full entry
