Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a large-scale residential project located along the Bohai Sea in Qinhuangdao, China, approximately 200 miles east of Beijing. The development, inspired by the principles of Moshe... View full entry
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Very soon, I believe, property developers may have to treat neuroscientific findings as key information to be weighed up alongside structural-load calculations, energy efficiency, lighting, and acoustics. And the person in the street will welcome this change.
— Thomas Heatherwick, writing in Wired
Writing in his Wired op-ed, Heatherwick mentions the involvement in a new research study between the University of Waterloo and his two-year-old Humanize Campaign, now the second such academic partner after the UK’s Loughborough University announced a new neuroscience-informed master’s program... View full entry
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for TEMPO, a new hotel and residential development in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Situated near the popular Praia Brava beach, and constructed of timber and concrete, the project is designed to maximize views of the ocean and surrounding mountains. Image... View full entry
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has released images of its proposed 1325 West Fulton Street, a residential development in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. Developed for Sulo Development, the 859,000-square-foot project is the first of three planned towers for the full-block site in the West Loop... View full entry
Phillippe Starck has shared news of a newly completed architectural project in Spain called LA Almazara. The resorted olive oil manufacturing plant now allows for an inspiring epicurean museum-like experience for tourists in search of a day trip or hands-on romantic getaway. Image courtesy Starck... View full entry
Japenese studio IGArchitects, led by Masato Igarashi, has completed a home on a narrow plot in Tokyo. Titled ‘Building Frame of the House,’ the scheme was designed for a married couple who sought a home that supported their busy work-from-home schedules while feeling each other’s... View full entry
Mayor Karen Bass has released a detailed plan for the rebuilding of key commercial and residential structures destroyed in last week’s devastating fires in Los Angeles County. The plan, which follows an earlier executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that eliminated CEQA reviews and... View full entry
A new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed showroom for Chinese women’s fashion brand Marisfrolg, built with recycled materials, has opened in Shenzhen. Image: Marisfrolg Located at the heart of the Marisfrolg Fashion Group’s headquarters, the roughly 31,215-square-foot showroom interiors was... View full entry
The 2025 edition of the World Monuments Fund (WMF)'s biannual World Monuments Watch List has been announced with 25 new cultural sites considered to be under threat from a variety of different sources both natural and manmade. Leading the list was the notable and important inclusion of the... View full entry
A new grant of $558,232 from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation will go towards the restoration of the historic Matthewis Persen House Museum in Kingston, New York. What is considered to be one of America’s oldest existing residential structures was first... View full entry
A code adoption tracking resource produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that shows the status of different states’ compliance with hazard-resistant zoning measures is especially relevant given the recent spate of catastrophic weather events affecting Los Angeles and... View full entry
A roundtable featuring four program chairs from the Southern California Institute of Architecture left Thayer-D skeptical “I'm sure Sci-Arc is well meaning, it's just seems like the school values visually engaging art work rather than being able to solve real life problems creatively". Based on... View full entry
The fires, in their destructive rage, have highlighted the spectacular architectural legacy of Los Angeles — one that is often taken for granted, or even ignored. They remind us that the city has long been one of the world’s great laboratories for residential architecture, and that its best buildings are vaunted pieces of art, and equally vulnerable to the ravages of nature. — The New York Times
Writing for The New York Times, architectural journalist Sam Lubell laments the many “architectural gems” already consumed by raging fires in Los Angeles. Among those destroyed are the Will Rogers House (1926), which a colleague of Lubell previously described as “magical.” The fires have... View full entry
Snøhetta has offered an update on construction progress at the Busan Opera House in Busan, South Korea. The Norway-based firm won the competition for the scheme’s design back in 2012, proposing a new opera house along the city’s northern seaport. Over a decade later, new photographs show... View full entry
Hawaii's statewide building code has "absolutely failed to do what it was intended to do when it was created — to provide a uniform building code for Hawaii," a local critic of it tells the Honolulu Civil Beat. Officials there are mulling different changes to the three-year... View full entry