The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced their selection of Quinn Evans Architects as the AIA Architecture Firm Award winner for 2024. The annual prize is the highest honor the organization bestows on an architecture practice and recognizes works that have consistently produced... View full entry
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has today announced Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo as its selection for the 2023 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, one of the industry’s leading honors for community building and development worldwide. “La Dauphine,” as she is better known to the press... View full entry
David Lake and Ted Flato, the founding partners of influential San Antonio, Texas-based Lake|Flato Architects, have been awarded the 2024 AIA Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects.The annual award is considered to be the highest honor in American architecture and is presented annually... View full entry
The latest curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs features 27 architecture schools currently seeking associate and assistant professors, faculty members, academic leaders, and applicants for fellowships. Preparing for a new job? Be sure to follow our Archinect Tips series to improve your... View full entry
The Allied Works-designed Palmer Museum of Art expansion project at Pennsylvania State University has shared new photos of its construction progress to go along with an announced opening date of June 1 next year. Reed Hilderbrand is coordinating with the firm to deliver the landscaped portion of... View full entry
Repeated calls for the decarbonization of architecture are sometimes met with criticisms as to their lack of substance, and in some cases, practicality or overall feasibility, Canada's National Observer tells us. The only mycelium binders on the market are, for example, unsuitable to certain... View full entry
An important milestone has been reached in the construction of 400 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. According to Urbanize Chicago, a caisson permit has been issued, and below-grade work is scheduled to kick off early next year. The blog reports that once that work is done, "above-grade work will start... View full entry
Louisiana State University is collaborating with NASA on a project investigating the potential for natural materials on the Moon to be used as 3D printed waterless concrete. The research is part of a wider mission to develop feasible robotic construction technologies that can support the... View full entry
A climate deal has been struck by global leaders at the COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai following days of negotiations. The agreement calls for all countries to move away from using fossil fuels, though stops short of phasing them out. The final text, signed by 200 countries, recognizes a “need... View full entry
When SoFi Stadium takes center stage as the host of Super Bowl LXI in 2027, the eyes of an unprecedented number of viewers will be tuned in to see the skills of both architects and professional football players being put on display in what is taking shape to be the nation’s most dynamic team... View full entry
New renderings for Google’s $280 million redevelopment of the Helmut Jahn-designed James R. Thompson Center in Chicago have been released by the company ahead of the start of construction activities early next year. The announcement was made via Google’s The Keyword blog and appears to show... View full entry
A new mass timber academic design for Bowdoin College from HGA has been unveiled for the first time following the project’s completion earlier this year in Brunswick, Maine. The Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies project called for the construction of two... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Landscape Designer at the Better Block Foundation, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Senior Architect at Zuru Group. The role, based in El Segundo, CA, calls for an... View full entry
Oppenheim Architecture founding principal Chad Oppenheim has been announced as the 2023 American Prize for Architecture laureate by The Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Since 2000, the Miami-based Cornell University graduate... View full entry
The National Building Museum is set to open a new exhibition centered on architecture found in children’s books. Occupying a 4,000-square-foot space on the museum’s ground floor, the Building Stories exhibition is described by organizers as “the most ambitious exhibition ever undertaken by... View full entry
