In honor of today's Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration, we are highlighting a collection of events and lectures advancing the discourse on Native American traditions, rights, and cultures in the built environment that will be taking place this week and throughout the fall. Affirming Indigenous... View full entry
As the morning air feels crisper and the smell of pumpkin spice anything becomes increasingly hard to avoid, we're taking a quick look back at the highlights on Archinect's Instagram feed this summer. Whether you're already one of @archinect's 95.1k followers or not (yet) — check out the... View full entry
September's Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) rose 3% to 182.5 from the revised August reading of 178.0. Over the month, the DMI’s commercial component fell 1%, while the institutional component rose 9%. The dip in the commercial segment was driven by weaker office planning. On the other hand, the... View full entry
The new Winthrop Center in Boston by Handel Architects has just been certified by the Passive House Institute (PHI) as the largest Passive House office design in the world, according to an announcement made Friday by its developer Millennium Partners. Inaugurated in the spring after a... View full entry
AIA Chicago has announced this year's winners of the Design Excellence Awards, Decarbonization Award, Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award, and the Lerch Bates People's Choice Awards at Designight 2023, which was held at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park on... View full entry
The 15th edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) commences next week in New York City as part of Archtober with a packed slate of programming that showcases architecture as an important social endeavor and broad-reaching intellectual nexus wherein “visionary concepts... View full entry
U.S. colleges are taking advantage of a post-pandemic increase in affordable, unused offices by purchasing such properties for educational use, according to reporting by The New York Times. Since 2018, numerous higher education institutions in the U.S. have been acquiring office buildings, with... View full entry
Zumthor describes the wing as “a concrete sculpture,” with floors, walls and ceilings of exposed concrete. There will be bronze surrounds on the window and door openings throughout the building. When I visited Haldenstein, he and his colleagues were weighing final choices for the color palette of the walls at the base of the new wing, inside the various legs. “Lively, not dark colors, to give identity to different spaces,” he said. “And then you come up into this world of concrete.” — The New York Times
Ahead of next year’s anticipated completion, Peter Zumthor says his sculptural new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA will be bereft of the most recognizable traces of his Pritzker-winning design signature — a claim the museum's director Michael Govan then refuted. The man who once said... View full entry
Safdie Architects has been tapped by developers Great Gulf to deliver a master-planned residential development in Killington, Vermont. While design proposals for the site are yet to be revealed, Great Gulf has said that sales of the first residences will launch next year, designed by a team led by... View full entry
As the 2023-24 academic year unfolds, Archinect is looking at all the exciting events at architecture schools nationwide with our Get Lectured series. Today, we look at events and speakers coming to Tulane School of Architecture, beginning with Professor Margarita Jover’s presentation ‘Cities... View full entry
Australian architecture firm Elenberg Fraser is moving forward with a new $350 million AUD ($223 million USD) high-rise tower in Perth on the country's west coast that could set the record as the world’s tallest mass timber structure once completed. Plans for the new 627-foot C6 Tower were... View full entry
The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, the Mountain House sits as a “meticulously designed and thoughtfully crafted residential structure” in sixty acres of... View full entry
This fall’s anticipated debut of the Sankofa Park component of the new Destination Crenshaw public space redesign from Perkins&Will and Studio-MLA in Los Angeles has been pushed back to February of next year, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the group managing its construction in... View full entry
The 5.5-acre Gansevoort Peninsula has opened at Hudson River Park, the first public beachfront in Manhattan. The $73 million project was designed by Field Operations and includes a large sports field, boardwalks, promenades, lawns, a picnic area, and an ecological salt marsh. Image credit: Barret... View full entry
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has announced the launch of the New York City Mass Timber Studio in an effort to join industry leaders who are elsewhere raising the bar for the use of sustainable materials in the built environment. The Studio is operated with support... View full entry