The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in conjunction with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), has announced the signing of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the revised Midtown Bus Terminal replacement plan from Foster + Partners and Epstein. The $10 billion... View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron (HdM) has updated their progress on the new 14.69-million-square-foot University Children's Hospital in Zurich after its ten-year journey to completion. The two-building program contains 2,300 rooms and roughly 48 different functional areas alternating between three and seven... View full entry
The Prix Versailles list of the World's Most Beautiful Airports for 2024 has been announced with six projects earning distinction for their aesthetic qualities and impact on the travel experience of users in five countries.Among the group was luis vidal + architects' vibrant Terminal E... View full entry
Field Operations has announced they are working with Canadian partners Brook McIlroy on a new public realm rehabilitation project dubbed The Bentway Islands in Toronto. The plan calls for the redevelopment of three traffic islands into a new space that totals 125,000 square feet. Design... View full entry
Populus goes one step further in its boast of being 'carbon positive', not just offsetting the hotel’s carbon footprint but actually taking out far more carbon than it puts in – a promise few businesses would dare to make, for both financial and publicity reasons.
As a term, however, 'carbon positive' can be linguistically confusing [...] and with no clear definition of what 'carbon positive' means, there are no metrics by which to determine its validity.
— The Guardian
The project, first announced in February 2021, has since garnered skepticism amidst its developer Urban Villages' claims of being a first-of-its-kind carbon-positive American design in the typology. The true sustainability of the firm’s 2009 Aqua Tower in Chicago has been scrutinized in the past... View full entry
Following our previous visit to BVC Architecture + Interiors, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York City this week to explore the work of Dattner Architects. A women-owned firm based in Midtown Manhattan, the firm describes its mission as to “enrich the... View full entry
The latest project by Polish firm Mobius Architekci is a contemporary farmhouse-style home, designed to have a harmonious relationship with its natural surroundings. Image: Paweł Ulatowski Taking the shape of a loop, in which the structure is seemingly both closed yet fluid, the home is... View full entry
With Summer well and truly over, it is now time to start the Fall with some exciting architecture and design festivals, exhibitions, conferences, and trade shows.From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler, here is a brief curated selection of recommendations worth checking... View full entry
Will L.A. continue to preserve communities dominated by single-family homes? Or will the city make a historic shift to allow for more affordable housing in areas that have long excluded it? — LA Times
City Planning officials voted on Thursday to approve the plan, which the LA Times pointed out is limited to just 28% of the city and areas that are heavily zoned for commercial and/or multifamily construction. The publication had to use a F.O.I.L. Act petition to obtain a copy of the... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Bedroom... View full entry
The winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Cycle 5 Emerging Practice Award has been announced as the Community Production Center Las Tejedoras in Chongón, Ecuador. Architects José Fernando Gómez Marmolejo (of Natura Futura) and Juan Carlos Bamba are credited to its design... View full entry
A £10 billion ($13.4 billion USD) master plan for London’s Earl’s Court district has been submitted to planning officials in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea before the commencement of construction on its first phase in 2026. The plan covers 7.5 million square feet and includes 4,000 new... View full entry
But for Mr. Ive, Jackson Square also represents personal reinvention. Few people walk away from their profession’s premier job. Even fewer start over again. A self-professed control freak, Mr. Ive decided that he had fretted enough over the snugness of each iPhone box, the layout of every Apple Watch component and the curve of every iPad corner. He wanted something new. — The New York Times
The former Chief Design Officer at Apple, Ive, is fresh off a $100 million-plus real estate buying spree in San Francisco’s Jackson Square, where a large-scale redevelopment is now planned for 2025. Clients of LoveFrom are paying up to $200 million for his services, per the Times. Ive formed the... View full entry
Neri Oxman, the former MIT professor and winner of the 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, has launched a new operation called OXMAN and based in New York City. Promising a "radical new species of design practice," Oxman, who is collaborating with Foster + Partners on the realization of its... View full entry
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are highlighting four briefs seeking student-led designs of a new multi-modal transit center for West Baltimore, multi-disciplinary projects exploring alternative modes of cohabitation with all living... View full entry
