*Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect location changes and exhibition dates.NYCxDESIGN has unveiled details of Design Pavilion 2023, which will see three public installations constructed across the city. Described as “New York’s premier public design exhibition,” the... View full entry
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition for the design of a new office building in the Lysaker area of Oslo, Norway. Titled ‘Varden,’ the scheme seeks to “craft a prominent landmark and a navigation point that resonates with the environment.” View full entry
Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier, a deeply admired figure within the country’s design community, passed away on September 15th at the age of 63 following a battle with cancer, the CBC and other outlets reported over the weekend. The founder of CCxA was behind many of the... View full entry
Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) has restarted work on the world’s tallest tower, the 1,000-metre-plus-tall Jeddah Tower project in Saudi Arabia. [...]
The developer has invited contractors to bid by the end of this year for a contract to complete the record-breaking structure. Kingdom Holding Company CEO Talal Ibrahim Almaiman confirmed that the tender has been officially issued when contacted by MEED.
— MEED.com
The Jeddah Tower project, designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, first appeared on Archinect in 2011 and is roughly one-third of the way through the construction of its record-setting superstructure, MEED reports. Progress had been halted in January of 2018 over labor shortages... View full entry
The rush to blame the destruction that ensued in the wake of this month’s devastating 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Morocco on rammed earth and the region's other traditional earthen construction methods is a flawed conjecture, according to an explanation penned recently by University of York... View full entry
It's that time of the year again as the Architectural League of New York prepares to host its big annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 29. This year's festivities are organized under the 2023 theme of SEA CHANGE, which the League describes as a "call to collective action" to celebrate... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to California-based Brooks + Scarpa, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Philadelphia this week to explore the work of CosciaMoos Architecture. Founded in 2010, the architecture and interior design firm believes that “architecture isn’t just about... View full entry
New York State’s pay transparency law has come into effect, requiring employers to disclose proposed pay rates. As of Sunday, September 17th, employers with at least four workers must disclose the minimum and maximum annual salary or hourly range of compensation in any advertisement for job... View full entry
Our Get Lectured series provides a useful look at different events and lectures taking place on campuses in North America. Today, we continue with a preview of what’s in store for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture in the Fall and Spring semesters. The theme for this... View full entry
Construction input prices ticked up 1.5% in August, the first increase in six months, due to a surge in energy costs, according to a new Associated Builders and Contractors’ analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data released Thursday. — Construction Dive
These readings come as a shock as the flattening of costs suggested that inflation was cooling. According to a separate analysis from the Associated General Contractors of America, a major increase in diesel fuel costs in August drove the overall increase in materials prices. The producer price... View full entry
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation has uncovered over 171,749 acres of developable land owned by nonprofit colleges or faith-based organizations in the state, bolstering the aims of the “Yes in God’s Backyard” movement as it... View full entry
The winners of the 2023 Concrete Masonry Student Competition have been announced by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Concrete Masonry Association Education & Research Foundation (NCMAFDN).The competition celebrates exceptional student projects that... View full entry
A new report driven by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University's newly-formed Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA) has recommended drastic reductions in the industry’s use of certain construction materials as it faces the environmental headwinds of sector-wide... View full entry
Docomomo US is back again with its 2023 Modernism in America Awards winners. Projects from nine states and the District of Columbia received seven Awards of Excellence and six Citations of Merit in the program's tenth edition, to which Los Angeles-based architect Barbara Bestor served as jury... View full entry
Employees of Sage and Coombe Architects have declared the formation of a new union within the New York office, the firm announced via a social media post late Thursday. “Sage and Coombe Architects is pleased to announce it has recognized a union as requested by a committee of firm employees... View full entry