Trump and his devotees in government are the absolute last people who should be shaping the policy for federal building design.
Trump should leave well enough alone.
— Chicago Sun-Times
Lee Bey recently took his critical eye to the new Trump Administration’s mandate to restore Classicism in federal buildings, arguing it would "wind up saddling us (and the countries where U.S. embassies will be built) with ungainly new buildings struggling to mimic those of ancient Rome or 18th... View full entry
John Chase, the trailblazing Black architect and 1952 MArch graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, has received recognition from his alma mater with the official renaming of the SoA’s Architecture & Planning Library building. The Cass Gilbert design, which was dedicated nearly... View full entry
A letter from the Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars to the French Cultural Ministry has revealed several glaring maintenance issues leading to a "physical ordeal" for staff and visitors. According to the letter, which was first published in Le Parisien, states: "Visitors have no space... View full entry
Marina Tabassum has been selected as the architect for the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion in London. The Bangladeshi architect and her firm Marina Tabassum Architects will be the 24th designers of the Serpentine Pavilion, an annual event that began with Zaha Hadid’s commission in 2000. Titled 'A... View full entry
The fate of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma has finally been decided with the recent sale of the property via a court order for $1.4 million. Artnet News has the local McFarlin Building company listed as its new rightful owners, following an order... View full entry
The Gensler-designed 350-acre New Home Office campus for Walmart has been unveiled in Bentonville, Arkansas, marking the realization of the retail giant’s transformative "vision" that first began in 2019. One of twelve mass timber office buildings. Image courtesy Walmart In total, the project... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Bunch Design, we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in Los Angeles this week to explore the work of ORA (Oonagh Ryan Architects). Founded by Oonagh Ryan, and based in the city’s Arts District, the firm has amassed a portfolio... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Kitchen... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the transformation of an existing historic structure into a luxury hotel in Rome. The Palazzo Capponi, located on the historic Via di Ripetta, draws inspiration from the city’s architectural heritage, focusing on the evolution of vaulted ceilings from ancient... View full entry
A new UNESCO-backed project geared toward human rights and ending antisemitism has named Daniel Libeskind as the architect who will transform the former private home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a learning center. The project is called Auschwitz Research Center on Hate... View full entry
The Getty Center has reported no damage in the wake of last night’s Sepulveda Fire, which broke out on the opposite side of the 405 Freeway near its Brentwood campus in Bel-Air, Los Angeles. The new fire, which comes two weeks after the Palisades Fire scorched some parts of its grounds without... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has responded to President Donald Trump’s reinstated executive order demanding, among other things, that the General Service Administration (GSA) report to him within 60 days with a plan to reinstate the primacy of classically-inspired architecture in... View full entry
Chicago-based practice Kwong Von Glinow has offered an insight into its new residential scheme serving a “retreat in a forested clearing.” The scheme’s title, House, Some of This, Some of That, is both the formal name for the project as well as a reflection of the scheme’s architectural... View full entry
France 24 is reporting that David Adjaye’s forthcoming National Cathedral of Ghana project is being investigated by state authorities over an apparent misuse of public funds in the procurement process. The $400 million (USD) design had been at the center of a row between rival political factions... View full entry
While it remains to be seen what the rebuilding will look like, fire resilience is a big concern across the country, driven in part by climate change. So what would it take to make homes less likely to catch fire, including those built decades earlier? The answer kind of depends. — Marketplace
Wildfire policy analyst Kimiko Barrett expounds on the "complex, wicked crisis" facing homeowners and residential designers in afflicted states such as California. She was a member of the Biden Administration’s Federal Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, a precursor to... View full entry
