The AIA Los Angeles chapter has announced the winners of their 2023 Residential Architecture Award. Twenty projects were recognized for the annual series ranging from affordable and supportive housing to single-family and multi-family housing. In addition to the twenty honored projects, two... View full entry
David Adjaye’s statement-making first skyscraper design for the New York City market has debuted in Lower Manhattan, marking the culmination of a project that will stand as a testament to his attention to historical context and the elevation of craft in architecture. The design for the 66-story... View full entry
In search of some inspiring and thought-provoking architecture and design competitions? This week's curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler highlight four calls inviting innovative proposals for virtual home designs, reimagined public housing schemes in Shenzhen, AI-based facade projections... View full entry
Snøhetta has revealed photos of its just-completed Orionis planetarium and observatory design in the northern French city of Douai. The project opened in May following a three-and-a-half year construction phase and is defined by a pronounced desire to provoke continuous movement while encouraging... View full entry
The 2023 edition of the UIA World Congress of Architects kicks off this weekend in Copenhagen with an impressive list of leading figures from the international architecture community on hand to debate and dissect some of the industry's most pressing issues. Beginning Sunday, July 2nd, the four-day... 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 that featured heavily in our recent conversation with Felecia Davis on biases in artificial intelligence. "Positionality" refers to the social... View full entry
People’s Architecture Office (PAO) has completed a public restroom in Beijing shaped by a single meandering wall. Named Amoeba Public Restroom, the project is located in Manshan Park, a popular destination in Mentougou, Beijing known for its markets, exhibitions, and music performances. Image... View full entry
Transform 1012 N. Main Street, the non-profit coalition responsible for a new reclamation project targeting a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas, has just announced the next phases of the selection process for an architect who will eventually deliver The Fred Rouse Center for Arts... View full entry
OPEN Architecture has shared construction photos of its new Sun Tower project, which recently topped out in the coastal Chinese city of Yantai. The program of the 164-foot tower is divided into three parts from the ground up. The semi-outdoor theater contained at its base gives way to a mid-level... View full entry
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe, jointly alongside Creative Europe, has just announced three Young Talent winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards category as part of the EUmies Awards Day 2023 in Venice.Winners received special oak trophies designed by the... View full entry
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced earlier this month that it has reached a major milestone in one of the most ambitious low-carbon concrete programs of its kind among U.S. transportation agencies. Originally introduced in September 2020, the Clean Construction Program... View full entry
Data centers will increasingly be built farther from some of the traditional locations and will move closer to the clients they serve, according to research by Gartner, an I.T. consultancy. But the search for land is not always easy. [...]
And as major players in the data industry strive to become greener in the next decade, the pressure is on.
— The New York Times
The crunch for new data infrastructure is straining local utility companies in areas such as Northern Virginia owing to a requirement for "inhaling massive amounts of energy," a reality that leads to concerns that local residents will be asked to foot the bill in the end. Water use is also... View full entry
HWKN has published images of their recently-completed Water Building One project in Washington D.C. The 13,400-square-foot building sits on the edge of the new District Wharf development on the city’s waterfront and is designed for hospitality and to host visiting boat crews. Image credit: Ryan... View full entry
Construction is underway for the expansion of Portland International Airport. As we reported last year, the ZGF-designed expansion will include a roof formed of 2.5 million feet of timber. New images of the scheme by roof installers Mammoet show components for the timber roof being moved into... View full entry
This week's curated job picks from Archinect Jobs highlight a wide array of marketing and business development positions in New York City. Below are fifteen architecture firms and institutions looking to expand their teams. To look up specific job titles from the architectural profession... View full entry