To mark the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, is exhibiting original scale models and maquettes used in the iconic stop-motion animated film. On display until January 14th, 2024, the exhibition titled “Dreamland |... View full entry
The third edition of the BLT Built Design Awards has announced its category winners and Emerging Voices for this year’s competition. Each winner was selected via a comprehensive process overseen by a panel of architects, academics, media representatives, and other industry stakeholders... View full entry
Maya Lin Studio has been attached to a new rooftop garden terrace project at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. The 13,000-square-foot design will complement the new $120 million renovation and expansion scheme from DIALOG that was announced in September of 2021. It will include an... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Wyoming-based Dynia Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Seattle this week to explore the work of Wittman Estes. Founded in 2012, and spanning architecture and landscape operations, the firm operates on “the idea that buildings and... View full entry
EskewDumezRipple has announced plans for a new academic building for the Georgia Institute of Technology in midtown Atlanta. The 416,500-square-foot Tech Square 3 will anchor Phase 3 of the newly created Technology Square, which links back to Georgia Tech’s main campus. The design calls for a... View full entry
The design of KPF’s Tower 36 has been approved by the Miami Urban Development Review Board. Developed in collaboration with architect of record ODP Architecture & Design, the 922,000-square-foot tower will hold both office and retail functions. Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF Externally... View full entry
The four-year-old Moon Village concept developed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with the European Space Agency is again on display as part of the new Space Mission exhibition that recently opened at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie museum in Paris.The concept... View full entry
The Architectural Review has revealed the shortlist for the 2023 AR Emerging awards. 15 practices have been shortlisted for the 2023 edition of the award which, since 2018, has sought to recognize “a body of work rather than a single building.” According to the jury, this year’s shortlist... View full entry
The Biden Administration has announced a new initiative aimed at financing office conversions in an effort to combat the growing problem of high vacancy rates and housing affordability in markets large and small across the country. The announcement comes as vacancy rates have skyrocketed to... View full entry
According to Rider Levett Bucknall’s (RLB) latest crane index report, the total number of cranes on commercial projects in North American cities has decreased by 10%, or by 51 cranes, from the first quarter to the third quarter of 2023. Out of the fourteen cities surveyed, six experienced... View full entry
Snøhetta has shared photos revealing the construction status of their Shanghai Grand Opera House design ahead of its expected opening in 2025. What’s most noticeable is the formation of the structure’s distinctive fan-shaped roof, which frames the Opera House’s spiraling form. This visual... View full entry
The Whitney Museum of American Art has shared news of a recently completed conversion project from Johnston Marklee in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The former studio and home of famed New York School painter Roy Lichtenstein at 741/745 Washington Street is now the new permanent... View full entry
3XN’s ‘upcycled’ design for the revamped Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, Australia, has been named the winner of the Best Tall Building Worldwide 2023 title by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as part of the annual CTBUH International Conference that was held last week... View full entry
OMA and Partner Shohei Shigematsu have shared new photos of their just-completed work on the Toranomon Hills Station Tower project for developer Mori Building Co. in Tokyo. The first high-rise to be completed inside the studio’s larger Toranomon Hills mixed-use district overlooks the terminus of... View full entry
MAD Architects has unveiled its design for the renovation and adaptive reuse of an old cement factory in Shanghai. The ‘Wanmicang’ warehouse sits on the south side of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Cement Factory grounds and has been reimagined by MAD as a “three-dimensional hierarchy of time and... View full entry
