Deborah Berke Partners has relaunched as TenBerke in a move that the firm says “re-articulates our ethics-based vision for our practice.” The new name, which still retains the surname of founder Deborah Berke, seeks to evoke ideas of multiples and multiplicity, reflecting how the firm sees the... View full entry
Lexus has unveiled an installation by New York-based artist and architect Suchi Reddy as part of Milan Design Week. Shaped by Air is on display at Superstudio in Milan alongside prototypes by the four winners of the Lexus Design Award 2023. View full entry
The Cooper Union’s controversial Vkhutemas: Laboratory of Modernism, 1920–1930 has set an opening date months after being postponed and then remounted following backlash over censorship claims and its appropriateness in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine. April 25th is the new public... View full entry
MVRDV has designed what the firm describes as a “pointillist” master plan for a health and technology campus in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The project aims to reimagine the Noviotech Campus by unifying the currently disjointed campus buildings and adding new buildings in the empty spaces... View full entry
A new Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data has shown a year-to-year decline in the cost of construction input prices for the first time in 18 months. Overall construction input prices are now 0.9% lower compared to March of... View full entry
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recently announced its selection of four designers as Honorary Fellows in recognition of their work’s ability to impact public life and the practice of architecture throughout the world. Mexican architect Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas joined... View full entry
The lead-up to this year's Milan Design Week festival will include a new installation from Ma Yansong and Andrea D’Antrassi of MAD Architects as part of the INTERNI Design Re-Evolution exhibition held at the University of Milan. Titled MOMENTUM, the 8-by-12.5-meter iron cube structure is tilted... View full entry
MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas has been selected as curator for the Van Gogh Homeland Biennale. Set to launch in 2025, the event will draw attention to the Brabant landscapes in the Netherlands which featured in many Vincent Van Gogh paintings more than a hundred years ago and are now under... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to New York-based S9 Architecture, we are using this week’s edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series to explore the work of fellow New York firm Float Studio. From their office on West 25th Street in Manhattan, the full-service interiors firm specializes in... View full entry
Tatiana Bilbao and Mariam Kamara will be joined by Tosin Oshinowo and Fernando Laposse on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22nd, for a special summit hosted by the group The World Around at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The event culminates in the awarding of the inaugural Young Climate... 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 Glass. Tip: Use the handy FOLLOW feature to... View full entry
The winners have been announced for the LAGI 2022 Mannheim design challenge. The competition called for clean energy solutions to be based in the German city of Mannheim. “Too often these energy infrastructures are seen as utilitarian and unaesthetic, which leads to pushback from communities... View full entry
New York City has pledged to reach 1,000 megawatts of solar energy by 2030 — enough energy to power 250,000 homes, according to the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Justice. But state data shows that its current pace of installation will land short of that goal, leaving officials and advocates looking for ways to break down barriers to installation. — Gothamist
As Gothamist reported, 90% of the city’s energy grid is derived from fossil fuels. The effort to counteract this with rooftop photovoltaics is being stymied by the building codes and cost of installation, despite remarkable gains in solar capacity overall. A proposed new program called... View full entry
New London Architecture’s group of 15 shortlisted entries for the 2023 Don’t Move, Improve! competition has been announced in celebration of what it says are the most innovative home improvements projects designers in the English capital have to offer. This year’s competition is organized... View full entry
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a new method to digitally simulate hurricanes. Using data derived from 100 years of hurricane monitoring, infused with modern AI techniques, the researchers suggest that simulating the trajectory and wind... View full entry
