The Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge ideas competition has presented its winning entries. Participants were challenged with designing "flexible" solutions to the city's ongoing housing crisis. Each concept design was submitted without limitations of site or scale and judged based on its... View full entry
Montreal-based studio Daily tous les jours has completed a public space design in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Titled 'River Lines,' the project saw the creation of an interactive stage in an urban plaza for big impromptu musical ensembles. Video credit: doublespace photography Part of the... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Design Research and Teaching Fellowship at Northeastern University, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Retail Architect with Japanese language skills at O’Neil Langan... View full entry
Many of his designs sit within historic Black neighborhoods with African American historical and cultural institutions. At the Glen Oaks Cemetery in South Dallas, Pittman’s grave marker reminds visitors why his buildings are significant points of interest—after all, he was the “first Black architect of Texas.” — Texas Highways
The building legacy of William Sidney Pittman, who arrived in Dallas from Washington, D.C., right before World War I, stands at only seven surviving structures. UT Austin School of Architecture assistant professor Tara A. Dudley says: “His arrival provided African Americans in Texas access to a... View full entry
Look below for Archinect's latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs. This week's featured employer highlight includes openings in New York City and Los Angeles, For even more opportunities, head to the Archinect job board and explore our active... View full entry
Its sale, for £275m, by BT to a hotel group, if it gives the tower a secure future, is welcome. I’m more troubled by the reports that the designer Thomas Heatherwick is to “repurpose” the building. His past work shows that he’s not one to leave well alone, but rather festoon structures with over-sized flower-pots and look-at-me swirling shapes. One can only hope that he discovers some restraint. The BT Tower is already an icon. It’s perfect. Let it be. — The Guardian
Readers will remember the critic's jabs at Heatherwick last fall after the publication of his new treatise on architecture and mental health, wherein Moore declared “an outbreak of shallow wannabe Gaudís” will follow in tow should the call-to-action be adopted. That provocation isn't... View full entry
Gensler has unveiled plans for a major renovation of JPMorgan Chase’s 55-year-old Chicago headquarters in the South Loop that will transform the building into a new state-of-the-art workplace aimed at fostering collaboration and ushering the bank’s over 14,500 local employees into what the... View full entry
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has selected Indigenous rights activist Justice Murray Sinclair as the RAIC Gold Medal recipient for 2024. Sinclair was formerly the Chair of Canada's Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an enormously influential body whose... View full entry
Each year, the Sony World Photography Awards makes its selection of the best photographers working to document the lives, events, triumphs, and challenges of individuals and societies as a whole.This year’s contest bore a record number of photographers entering for the chance to win the $... View full entry
Valencia is reeling from a fatal fire at an apartment complex in the Spanish city. The incident began on the night of Thursday, February 22nd, and though the cause has not been definitively established, early reporting has suggested that the building’s cladding may have played a part in the... View full entry
Google’s brand new New York City headquarters inside St. John’s Terminal at Hudson Square has opened following the completion of a five-year and $2.1 billion project designed by COOKFOX Architects and Gensler. The renovation of the two-block-long former rail terminus yields a total of... View full entry
UNStudio and HYP Architects have emerged victorious in a competition for the design of the Kyklos building in Belval, Luxembourg. The office building represents the final part of a major redevelopment of an old industrial site, which now holds a university and technological center... View full entry
Snøhetta has shared new photos of its completed Beijing City Library design in the Chinese capital. What is billed by the team to be the "world's largest climatized reading space" is composed of a glass curtain wall fronted by a forest of sculptural columns resembling ginko trees in a... View full entry
A quartet of new landscape projects has been selected as the winners for the 25th International Garden Festival, which takes place in Grand-Métis, Quebec, from June 22nd until October 6th this year.For the special anniversary, designers responded to the theme ‘Ecology of Possibility’ put... View full entry
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has shared new renderings and construction photos to go along with the announcement of the impending completion of a two-year, $100 million expansion project designed by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture. The design establishes the new... View full entry
