The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will be banning the use of chrysotile asbestos, the last commercial asbestos derivative available in the United States. The ban will primarily impact the automotive industry and puts an end to the 40-plus years of reforms against its use, which... View full entry
The UK-based group Architects for Gaza, appealing to the educational needs of displaced Palestinian architecture students in the occupied territory, has just announced the creation of a new learning platform called Gaza Global University. The announcement was made earlier this month via... View full entry
A new home design that stands as North America’s first three-story 3D printed structure has been completed in Canada using a special printer from the Danish construction technology firm COBOD. The Toronto area proof-of-concept project from Nidus3D delivered what is reported as one of Canada’s... View full entry
For the first Studio Snapshots of 2024, Alexander Walter had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Noah Walker liked what he saw: "Beautiful work." Plus, Niall Patrick Walsh lays out how Creativity... View full entry
“It really pisses me off,” Clark said while standing in the plaza in front of the Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue, a few blocks south of the dueling skyscrapers. “The whole New York skyline has been destroyed. When I moved here I was thrilled with it, and now it’s just getting disgusting. These new buildings have no identity, no design to them. We’ve lost the character of New York, and it breaks my heart.” — The Guardian
The Guardian goes inside some locals' struggle against the new 262 Fifth Avenue condo tower by Meganom and SLCE Architects. The East Siders protesting their obstructed view sheds are also not in favor of its appearance or the design for 432 Park Avenue, including several inspired teen critics on... View full entry
Earlier this week, engineering and construction giant Bechtel and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) announced a multiyear partnership dedicated to preventing construction worker suicides. The partnership aims to reach 500,000 U.S. construction workers over five years... View full entry
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been awarded the 2024 Pritzker Prize. Born in 1945, the architect and social advocate has built a career that establishes kinship between public and private realms, in pursuit of harmonious societies that overcome diverse identities, economies, politics... View full entry
As the architecture community anticipates the official Pritzker Prize announcement this Tuesday, our team at Archinect has been fully immersed in the whirlwind of predictions and speculations. A few days ago we published a roundup of forecasts from the Archinect community, highlighting potential... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects has selected 96 member architects and 2 non-member architects to the AIA College of Fellows. A jury of seven-member fellows led by Chair Lisa Lamkin of Brown Reynolds Watford Architects was responsible for the selection process, which vets architects up for... View full entry
A new 3D printed ADU prototype made of concrete and other fire-resistant materials is under construction as part of a demonstration taking place this month in Walnut, California. The first-of-its-kind project was born of a collaboration between the fire departments of both Walnut and Los... View full entry
Construction of what would be the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting Sicily and mainland Italy over the Strait of Messina, could begin this year after the final design recently gained approval. The long-delayed project would stretch more than 10,800 feet if completed. The controversial... View full entry
The team behind the new $1.6 billion Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Terminal F expansion has been announced to include the architecture firms PGAL, Muller2, and Gensler. The three join an eight-member design-build consortium for the delivery of the sixth terminal of the nation’s... View full entry
There is a residual feeling that architecture is not for us because it has been complicit in colonization...Now that we have more voices contributing to this space, in the next few years, we’re going to really shift the idea of what design and architecture can do for the community. — NYT
Will Higginbotham profiles Jefa Greenaway, of Greenaway Architects. Jefa is one of a small number of registered Indigenous architects in Australia. View full entry
Architects Orange have developed a proposal for Oklahoma City featuring what could become the "the tallest building in the United States and currently fifth tallest in the world." thom.Bohlen@pima.gov agrees "with the previous negative design comments, and would add that the 1,750 ft tower element... View full entry
Egypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of Giza, a committee formed by the country’s tourism minister said in a statement. [...]
The pyramids are the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that still remain.
— The Guardian
The initiative was announced in January by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, calling it “the project of the century.” The project, led by a team of Egyptian and Japanese experts, would have commenced after at least a year of planning but has since drawn... View full entry
