Los Angeles-based Arshia Architects has completed RO54, a residential scheme perched on a hilltop in Bel Air. The team describes the project’s aesthetic as “directed by streamline automotive design,” with a split-level concept following the hilly topography of the site. Image credit: Paul Vu... View full entry
The 2024 cohort of Loeb Fellowship recipients has been announced today by the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). This year's group features nine total fellows whose work touches on fields of infrastructure, climate justice, land ownership, journalism, and other important... View full entry
The Design Educates Awards has unveiled the winners of their 2023 edition. The annual award seeks to “recognize the best projects that respond to complex social and environmental contexts and carry educational value.” The 2023 edition sought entries that delivered a lasting impact on users and... View full entry
Interested in entering Archinect's Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge? You're not too late yet! With the submission deadline set to next Monday, June 12th, prospective entrants still have one week left to imagine the future of architecture and the built environment... View full entry
The Chicago Plan Commission was presented the final design for the Discovery Partners Institute’s new headquarters at the 78 as the development looks to get final site plan approval. — Urbanize Chicago
The OMA and Jacobs-designed project is proposed for a one-acre parcel anchoring the south end of the upcoming The 78 mega-development, a mixed-use innovation district set to rise along a 62-acre stretch of disused rail yards. The headquarters is expected to be the first building to begin... View full entry
One of the most anticipated projects of the summer is ready to make its official public debut later this month as the finishing touches are being put in place for the new Moody Nolan and Pei Cobb Freed-designed International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Sited... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Culver City-based ShubinDonaldson, we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in California today to explore the work of Johnston Marklee. Founded in 1998 and led by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, the firm has amassed a diverse portfolio unified by a common... View full entry
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced a record-breaking number of winning projects as part of their 2023 Award of Excellence program. Featuring over 100 total built and yet-to-be-realized designs that span the global landscape of architecture across a wide gamut of... View full entry
A new law is set to take effect in New York City, which will regulate how companies can use artificial intelligence in hiring decisions. Enforcement of NYC 144 will begin on July 5th, 2023, requiring companies using AI software in the hiring process to notify candidates that such software is... View full entry
Participants in the upcoming 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) have been announced by the organization in a preview of their exhibition titled This is a Rehearsal. The event will open on September 21st at various sites throughout the city. A total of 50 contributors were... View full entry
Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change are straining water supplies. — The New York Times
This decision, announced last Thursday, means that Arizona will no longer provide developers in some areas of the Phoenix region new permits to construct homes that rely on groundwater. Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, sources half of its water supply from groundwater. The announcement... View full entry
A special ceremony honoring the 2023 Louis I. Kahn Award winners Herzog & de Meuron was held earlier this week as part of the Center for Architecture and Design Philadelphia’s annual fundraising banquet at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archeology. One-half of the... View full entry
This Wednesday marked the long-awaited opening of BIG’s planned Stuyvesant Cove Park in Manhattan, marking an end to what was for some a contentious process that drew ire from various community groups on the two-year path towards its eventual completion. Commissioned to be a first-line response... View full entry
Engineering News-Record has released its 2023 rankings, listing the top commercial contractors in the United States. The companies were ranked by construction revenue in 2022. New York dominates the top 10 ranking with three firms, including the top spot, becoming the only state to hold more than... View full entry
It’s very significant. In terms of personal meaning, I have approached it as a kind of meditation and reflection on the idea of deep time—planetary and galaxy time that is beyond the human timeline.
Asaase III is, in a way, a representation of how I imagine an ideal city—a city that is in symbiosis with the Earth, acknowledging it and honoring it in a very deep way, but also absolutely transforming it and creating new features.
— ARTnews
The new (permanent) addition to the Griot Museum of Black History is Adjaye’s second foray into rammed earth sculpture, following a 2021 installation at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. COUNTERPUBLIC curator Allison Glenn says the commission was born of her desire to connect the museum to the... View full entry