The final candidates in the race to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects have been officially announced. Current President Ben Derbyshire is due to step down from his role in September 2019, at which point his position will be taken over by one of the following... View full entry
Bombardier Rail Technologies, ACS Infrastructure Development, Balfour Beatty, Fluor Enterprises and HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions North America have all been chosen to deliver a $4.9bn project to design, build and install an automated people mover system at Los Angeles International Airport. [...]
The system will run on a 3.6km elevated dual-lane guideway and will serve six newly-built stations, creating connections between the airport, public and private transportation, and a new car rental facility.
— Construction Global
New York’s nightscape is as iconic [...] as it is taken for granted. A city without streetlights is impossible to imagine, but New York’s 396,572 street-side luminaires are as unremarkable as the streets’ paving — invisible until something changes. An initiative to replace sodium and halogen bulbs with energy- and cost-efficient LEDs has thrown the nightscape suddenly into question, as some city residents bemoan the loss of romance (and sleep). — Urban Omnibus
In her piece for Urban Omnibus, landscape and urban designer Emily Schlickman takes a fascinating closer look at the history of New York City's system of street-side luminaires (the largest in the nation), and how the recent transition to LED technology is affecting the city and its... View full entry
The 8th Los Angeles Design Festival kicked off today with a plethora of events happening throughout the city over the next four days. One of the featured attractions appears to have fallen out of the sky and landed on the rooftop of the ROW DTLA building: MINI LIVING Urban Cabin is a site-specific... View full entry
Architecture isn’t normal. We take for a given that architecture has to operate the way it already does — but it doesn’t. What appears as natural is in fact constructed, and has mutated dramatically through time. “Architecture,” that is, refers not just to the practice of building but... View full entry
Between 2007 and 2013, Fotiadis designed all or part of six Trump-branded developments: a Trump Tower in Kazakhstan; a Trump-branded seaside resort in the republic of Georgia; a 47-story Trump Tower in Tbilisi, Georgia; hotel rooms at the Trump Tower in Istanbul; a Trump movie studio complex in Florida; and major portions of the Trump Parc Stamford, a condominium tower in Connecticut. — CNBC
Christina Wilkie tries to learn more about architect John Fotiadis (reportedly Trump’s favorite architect). Yet, within hours of being contacted, John Fotiadis (Archinect firm profile) closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. h/t @Marcy Wheeler View full entry
Launched on the Google Arts & Culture platform today, the project includes drone footage of ancient sites and structures like the ziggurat in Borsippa and the Archway of Ctesiphon, 3D models of now lost architecture, like Babylon’s famous Ishtar Gate, and documentation of sites that have been damaged or destroyed by Isis, including Nimrud, Hatra and Mosul. — The Art Newspaper
"Using drone footage, 3D models and videos, the tech giant is working with cultural institutions to make preservation efforts accessible to a larger public," The Art Newspaper reports.View the Preserving Iraq's Heritage online exhibition here. View full entry
To some boosters, your city is only one world-class visitor attraction away from economic prosperity. That pitch has been used to sell and endless series of public subsidies for baseball parks, football stadiums, basketball and hockey arenas, convention centers (and their appurtenant “headquarters hotels”) and starchitect-designed museum buildings. To that long list, we might add aquariums. — City Observatory
Joe Cortright CityCommentary piece on the promise and perils of city aquariums. View full entry
A dramatic shift is underway on the Williamsburg waterfront: The ruins of the former Domino Sugar Refinery, a neighborhood landmark since the 19th century, are in the process of being transformed into an 11-acre megaproject. Four new buildings are on the way, as is a renovation of the massive factory building [...]
Domino Park, a six-acre green space that hugs the edge of the development, opens on June 10.
— Curbed NY
Curbed New York documents the transformation of the former Domino Sugar Factory where one piece of the massive revitalization—the James Corner Field Operations-designed Domino Park—will open to the public this Sunday. (Prepare for spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline.) View full entry
Join Archinect in celebrating the opening of Archinect Outpost and the launch of Ed 2 "Architecture of Disaster" on June 15th, 7-10 PM. RSVP here to reserve your spot! Archinect Outpost is an exciting new retail initiative in downtown LA's Arts District, a rapidly transforming creative... View full entry
It's been merely a month since rapper/entrepreneur/design aficionado Kanye West announced on Twitter that he would launch an architecture venture with his design firm, to be called YEEZY Home, and now first renderings have appeared on Instagram that list West among the designers. "Low income... View full entry
As part of the From the Ground Up series, Anthony Morey, profiled David Cabin, named after client Melvin David, by Frank Gehry. mmandemnorris added further detail "A little more research would show this was Gehry's effort to connect to his earliest inspiration, historical Asian architecture. The... View full entry
The Latvian Pavilion during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale Architettura 2018, titled Together and Apart, looks at apartment buildings in relation to architecture’s role in organizing society. It examines how this architectural typology generates ways of living together... View full entry
The first Serpentine Pavilion co-commissioned and built outside the UK has opened its figurative doors in Beijing this week. Designed by JIAKUN Architects, the temporary structure is the result of a collaboration between London's Serpentine Galleries and WF CENTRAL in Beijing. First renderings... View full entry
Melbourne has consistently been ranked the world's #1 most livable city (often sharing the top spot with rival Vienna), and city planners hope to strengthen this position with a new metro tunnel set to open in 2025. Five new stations, along with bicycle facilities, new parks, open spaces, and... View full entry
