The SOM Foundation has announced its three winners for the 2023 SOM Foundation China Fellowship. Students Xianglan He, Bolun Qiu, and Shuaibo Shi were each selected for a $5,000 research prize, which this year was organized around the theme of "Shaping Our World Through Air," a prompt meant to... View full entry
The Cooper Union has announced an update in its search to find a new permanent Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. In a letter to the schoolwide community, the Board of Trustees announced the continuation of Hayley Eber as Acting Dean and the addition of South African-born... View full entry
Construction has been completed on the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Chengdu West First Bridge in China. Spanning 600 feet across the Jiangxi River, the bridge caters to motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. Image credit: Liang Xue The symmetrical bridge comprises two primary steel arches that... View full entry
With the Fall term starting, architecture schools are getting ready to welcome students for another academic year. That also means another season of exciting lecture programs from schools. To kick off Archinect's Get Lectured Fall 2023 series, we highlight upcoming events from Boston Architectural... View full entry
Skyline Robotics is disrupting the century-old practice of window washing with new technology that the startup hopes will redefine a risky industry.
Its window-washing robot, Ozmo, is now operational in Tel Aviv and New York, and has worked on major Manhattan buildings such as 10 Hudson Yards, 383 Madison, 825 3rd Avenue and 7 World Trade Center [...]
— CNBC
Automation has entered the building maintenance field with AI-powered window-washing robots appearing on Manhattan's high-rise facades. The technology could signal a shift in the workforce traditionally assigned to this task, from human teams to lone robots controlled remotely, potentially... View full entry
The artist, architect, and environmentalist Maya Lin is set to release her inaugural generative art project. Titled Ghost Forest Seedlings, and produced by Pace Verso with Web3 art innovators E.A.T_WORKS, the work will be released on September 18 to align with Climate Week NYC. Ghost Forest... View full entry
The Architectural Record has announced the 2023 recipients of its Women in Architecture Design Leadership Awards. The tenth edition of the “only awards program in the United States recognizing and promoting notable women in the field,” the award recognizes six individuals for their... View full entry
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has announced the winners of its National Awards Program. Awards were bestowed to firms, individuals, and projects across awards categories including Designer of Distinction, Student of the Year, Educator of the Year, and Firm of the Year, among... View full entry
Since 2000, the Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship has provided architects, designers, researchers, and artists with the opportunities to investigate a specific topic/focus and develop a research project to teach during a nine-month residency at the Knowlton... View full entry
New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis. — The New York Times
The news comes after the revelation last week that a total of zero new housing starts were approved in Manhattan in the month of July. The Adams administration previously announced its desire to create 40,000 new residential units through the adaptive reuse of office buildings. The rezoned area... View full entry
It's time to let Archinect readers judge the graphic prowess of architecture schools again as they have showcased their lecture and public events programming in our ongoing Get Lectured series. As we prepare for the upcoming Fall term, which Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 lecture poster will win the... View full entry
Are you a mid-level architect or designer looking for a new job? For this week's curated jobs highlight, we feature 10 firms that are seeking intermediate architects and designers to join their teams. Featured below are job opportunities in New York and Los Angeles. With over 100+ new job listings... View full entry
Gensler Principal and Studio Director Steven Paynter sat down recently with financial news service Marketplace.org to detail his firm’s year-old proprietary office conversion metric, a unique tool that has become indispensable as the industry looks to position itself for the mass-scale... View full entry
The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled the longlist for its annual RIBA House of the Year award. The 20 projects on the longlist will soon be reduced to a six-project-strong shortlist which will be visited by a specialist jury to decide the winner. The award is given each year to... View full entry
Urban farms and communal spaces are among the ideas for repurposing car park floors in Melbourne’s skyscrapers in the future, when it is predicted that residents will rely more on driverless and shared electric cars.
The architects of Melbourne’s tallest building, Australia 108, have created designs envisioning the transformation of the building’s 10 levels of car parking into space for a vertical farm, beehives, water collection and storage, pet care, podcast studios, co-working and education.
— The Age
Downtown Melbourne's potential future scenario of widely-available self-driving cars has developers rethinking millions of square feet worth of parking garages, and vertical farms are seen as a solution (along with housing, retail, and dining options). An amendment to its planning rules that would... View full entry