A pop-up exhibition titled “Building Identity: Modern Architectural Heritage of the Emirates” opened this week as part of the annual Modernism Week festivities in Palm Springs, California. View full entry
It is also the rare skyscraper designed with climate change in mind. It holds a self-contained, catastrophe-resilient power plant capable of generating as much energy as six football fields of solar panels. The building captures every drop of rain that falls on it, and reuses that runoff to heat or cool its 9,000 daily visitors.
But One Vanderbilt is also something else. It is already out of date.
— The New York Times
New York City’s recent ban on fossil fuels is making the green technology built into the merely two-year-old KPF-designed tower obsolete in terms of energy sources, the NYT's Ben Ryder Howe writes. Foster + Partners’ nearby 270 Park project is cited as an example of the forthcoming... View full entry
British firm Architecture for London has recently completed the extension and refurbishment of a traditional Edwardian terrace house into a modern, energy-efficient home. Photo: Lorenzo Zandri and Christian Brailey, courtesy of Architecture for London Called Low Energy House, the residence... View full entry
Today, a landmark Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) has been reached between the UK’s Architects Registration Board (ARB) and United States’ National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB) that will streamline the registration process for architects in both countries beginning on... View full entry
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Florida State University Department of Interior Architecture and Design recently exhibited the winning projects from the last decade of its annual Student Design Charrette.Winning projects from previous charrettes were featured along with the 2022-23 academic... View full entry
Today, our Get Lectured series continues with a list of events and lectures happening at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning this spring. The semester starts on February 22 with a visit from Dapham Maraoane of The Architecture Lobby hosted by... View full entry
David Chipperfield Architects has been chosen as the winner in an international completion for the design of an extension to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece. Developed in collaboration with Tombazis & Associates Architects, Wirtz International, wh-p ingenieure, and Werner... View full entry
This week's curated employment highlight from Archinect Jobs features a number of attractive architectural openings for job seekers in Arizona's state capital. Firms in Phoenix and Scottsdale are currently looking for Project Architects, BIM Specialists, Interior Designers, and Graphic Designers... View full entry
The SOM Foundation has recently announced the winners of the 2022 Research Prize and 2022 European Research Prize, culminating in a process that annually honors the most groundbreaking investigations into the built environment on two continents.A team of researchers from Yale and... View full entry
The Rhode Island School of Design announced its decision to withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report's Best College rankings on February 13, a move that joins more institutions that are turning away from the highly-criticized process. RISD President, Crystal Williams... View full entry
A new metric measuring the amount of carbon reduced in reuse projects is changing the way practitioners of the built environment can quantify the success of retrofit projects of all types and sizes. Architecture 2030’s new CARE (Carbon Avoided Retrofit Estimator) Tool is a way of providing... View full entry
Montreal-based MU Architecture has completed a lakeside house in Quebec. Built on the shores of Lake Revdor, the three-level Break Residence was commissioned to fulfill the client’s wish of building a home on the land of his ancestors and is described by the design team as “a place of... View full entry
Three of the eight challengers to unseat incumbent Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have so far responded to a questionnaire issued by a coalition of local chapters of architects, landscape architects, and planners asking for their input on the Windy City’s built environment... View full entry
Car manufacturer Lexus has announced the winners of the Lexus Design Award 2023. The four winners were chosen from 2,068 entries originating from 63 countries and regions and span backgrounds in architecture, industrial design, and product design. Operating under the theme “Design for a Better... View full entry
A consortium of seven international hyperloop companies has formed a new entity called the Hyperloop Association, the group recently announced. The organization was begun in December and expects a royal decree to follow shortly announcing it as a legal entity. The Association says it will be based... View full entry
