The Noguchi Museum has just announced three winners for the tenth edition of its Isamu Noguchi Award first established in 2014 to honor the core tenets of the visionary sculptor and designer’s artistic legacy. Edmund de Waal, Hanya Yanagihara, and Theaster Gates are the trio being honored by the... View full entry
Finding the right job begins with the right search, so why not take your job hunt to the next level and start looking across borders? This week, we highlight some exciting job opportunities currently on Archinect Jobs at firms outside of the United States. Including both architectural practice... View full entry
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun. She designed and built the world’s first successfully solar-heated modern residence and identified a promising new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery. And yet, along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT. — PBS
The Hungarian-born scientist developed more than 20 patents in her lifetime and aided Eleanor Raymond on the development of the Dover Sun House in 1948. View this post on Instagram A post shared by American Experience (@americanexperiencepbs) "[She] knew you can’t just wait for society to be... View full entry
A proposal from students at Harvard University has won the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in its 21st year. The ULI says: “The ideas contest provides graduate students the opportunity to devise a comprehensive design and development scheme for a... View full entry
The first dedicated soccer stadium for New York City FC will be designed by HOK, the team announced this week as it previewed its plans for a new mixed-use district in Willets Point, Queens. The ten-year-old MLS franchise has been playing its home matches at Yankee Stadium since 2015 and will soon... View full entry
The AIA’s Committee on the Environment has unveiled the winners of the 2023 COTE Top Ten Awards. The ten projects have been recognized “for their significant achievements in holistic sustainability and advancing climate action and equity.” To be eligible for the award, projects were required... View full entry
Frank Lloyd Wright's historic 1929 Westhope home has just hit the market in Oklahoma. Sage Sotheby’s has the property listed for $8 million in Tulsa, with local real estate investor Stuart Price as the seller. According to the listing, the 5-bed, 4.5-bath home is 10,405 square feet, making it... View full entry
A team of students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has built a near-zero embodied carbon building on campus using hempcrete, wood, and steel as primary materials. — Construction Canada
Called the Third Space Commons, the project was led by Third Quadrant Design, UBC’s first green building design team. The group is comprised of 60 students from the Faculty of Applied Science and the Sauder School of Business. The building is a wooden structure spanning 2,400 square feet, made... View full entry
Construction is set to begin on the Steven Holl Architects-designed Ostrava Concert Hall in the Czech Republic. Hall won the competition for the scheme’s design back in 2018 with a proposal that saw the concert hall “encased” in a case of zinc. Image credit: Steven Holl Architects The... View full entry
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced its selection of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) for a new sustainable air-traffic control tower prototype that will initially deliver 31 highly-adaptable facilities at small regional and municipal airports throughout the United... View full entry
A unique new philanthropic initiative from Michael Hsu Office of Architecture (MHOA) is offering nonprofits in the Austin, Texas area the chance to win a $20,000 pro-bono consultation in the interests of providing much-needed space to organizations affected by the city’s rapid transformation... View full entry
Chipotle Mexican Grill has unveiled a new fully electric restaurant design that aims to utilize 100% renewable energy and maximize energy efficiency in its equipment and systems. The chain has recently opened restaurants with these new features in Gloucester, Virginia and Jacksonville... View full entry
March data from the Dodge Construction Network (DCN) has shown an increase in construction starts of 19% to what is now a three-month high despite concerns over the industry’s ties with Silicon Valley Bank following the financial institution’s controversial collapse at the beginning of the... View full entry
OMA’s Ellen van Loon and Giulio Margheri have debuted an exhibition at Milan Design Week that explores the process of creating design objects out of natural stone and its evolution from raw elements to refined commercial products at the market. Set in the basement and garden of the Brera... View full entry
A professor from Texas A&M University is developing an AI-infused system to capture flooding data in real-time. The system, developed by professor of construction science Amir Behzadan, uses crowdsourced public images of floods to inform rescue and mitigation efforts. Behzadan began developing the... View full entry
