This year’s Weitzman Awards at the University of Pennsylvania will honor Koning Eizenberg and James Corner Field Operations with two of their top honors during a public forum celebrating the most exceptional achievements in public design.A class of 1986 alum, James Corner’s firm was... View full entry
AIA Chicago has announced that Cynthia Weese, FAIA, principal of Weese Langley Weese Architects, will receive the 2023 AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago’s Millennium Park on September 28, 2023. Throughout her... View full entry
Archinect's Lexicon focuses on newly invented or adopted vocabulary within the architectural community. For this installment, we're featuring a term relevant to the both recent wave of generative AI tools released for public use in the AEC sector and beyond, and the software tools... View full entry
Are you an experienced project architect or project manager looking to explore new job opportunities in New York? For our latest jobs highlight, explore 12 open positions currently featured on the Archinect Job Board. If you're looking for jobs on the West Coast, be sure to check out Archinect's... View full entry
New economic reporting compiled by Yardi Matrix suggests that apartment conversions will yield 122,000 or more new units in the United States in the coming years despite a recent turndown that’s been recorded in the market since January 1st. RentCafe has the latest data analysis to highlight a... View full entry
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has just announced the third cycle of its Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), representing a total of $2.7 million in funding to 48 different visual arts organizations across the country for 2023. Along with the announcement of this year’s awardees, the FCI... View full entry
A new project focused on landform development in the Maldives from the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Invena is now on view at the MIT Museum in Cambridge. The Growing Islands initiative is a design proposal that considers the impacts of rising... View full entry
The AIA Chicago Foundation's board of trustees has announced recipients of the 2023 Diversity Scholarship and the Chicago Award in Architecture-Student Award. In an effort to support and "retain diverse talent" within the city of Chicago by "recognizing the value of new and unique voices in the... View full entry
The Clinton Foundation has announced that Studio Gang will design a “major expansion” to the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The proposed expansion, details of which will be revealed next year, will seek to “help the Clinton Center fulfill its mission to engage and... View full entry
London’s Southwark Council has granted approval for the redevelopment of Dulwich Picture Gallery and its gardens. Led by architects Carmody Groarke and landscape artist Kim Wilkie, the project will be the biggest redevelopment of the past two decades for the venue, which originally opened in... View full entry
This officially ends Inter and AC Milan's plans to tear down large swathes of the historic stadium and build a new 'Cathedral' home in the surrounding grounds, though the clubs had been planning for this rejection for some time.
Inter and AC Milan are therefore pursuing other stadium options elsewhere, which will most likely see them separate after sharing a veritable footballing cauldron since 1947.
— Daily Mail UK
The Populous-designed plan was cast into doubt by the Regional Commission for the Cultural Heritage of Lombardy last week, ending an intriguing saga that saw opposition from locals concerned about the environmental impact of demolition and its commentary on the influence of foreign investment in... View full entry
[The] quintessential local issue of zoning squabbles ends up generating a national scarcity of elite college admissions slots, fueling zero-sum competition and ultimately reducing America’s ability to increase global “exports” of its best-in-class high-end higher education product. — The Washington Post
The Washington Post has a useful primer on the zoning hangnail stimying elite American higher-ed institutions from expanding their enrollment in response to societal outcries and prospective applicants' increasingly high standardized test scores. The issue dates to the mid-1990s when... View full entry
Earlier this year, the ongoing refurbishment of SOM’s Walter Netsch-designed United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado reached a significant milestone when contractors for the $220 million project removed the final aluminum fin from its iconic exterior, culminating the... View full entry
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are highlighting four briefs calling for the best in architectural drawing, innovative designs for immersive outdoor installations, nominations for outstanding industry professionals and educators, and... View full entry
A new project in Australia led by First Nations designers will give Sydneysiders a special mythology-showcasing destination at a formerly empty concrete berth along the harbor following the results of an international competition organized by the government of New South Wales. Located in the... View full entry