With construction underway on the 3XN-designed Sydney Fish Market in Australia, the firm has offered an insight into the design of the scheme’s defining roofscape. When completed, the 700,000-square-foot building will be the largest fish market in the southern hemisphere. Image credit: 3XN The... View full entry
The private home considered to be Frank Lloyd Wright’s final residential design has hit the market in Arizona for $8.95 million, according to the Robb Report and several local real estate listings. The 3,095-square-foot Norman Lykes House, also known as the "Circular Sun House," was first... View full entry
Today the Architectural League of New York (ALNY) has named eight winners in its annual Emerging Voices competition. The initiative began in 1982 as a means to showcase and celebrate the work of young North American architects and designers on an international stage. The awards program has brought... View full entry
A new exhibition on view in Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum from Henning Larsen will present ideas and possible solutions to some of the industry’s most at-the-moment challenges. Under the title ‘Changing Our Footprint,’ the exhibition presents a selection of sustainable materials and... View full entry
Our Archinect Get Lectured series continues today with a look at the goings-on on campus at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Hillier College of Architecture and Design this spring. The school shares: “Since 2007, an endowment established with the American Institute of... View full entry
Researchers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have published details of a new material that can auto-regulate its environment by changing its infrared colors and liquid-solid state. In the future, the ultra-thin material film could be added to a... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Architectural Design at the University of Hong Kong, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for a VDC Coordinator at Assembly OSM. The... View full entry
Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and planning firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs: This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in New York City, Philadelphia, New Haven, and Sag Harbor. For even more opportunities, visit Archinect Jobs and peruse... View full entry
Istanbul-born media artist and design innovator Refik Anadol has quickly become a household name with his mind-bending, data-driven art. This year, Anadol continues to push what's possible during his visual backdrop debut at the 65th annual Grammy Awards. "The collaboration with... View full entry
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has announced Selldorf Architects as the lead designer for an effort aimed at revitalizing its public spaces and permanent collections galleries for the first time since 2006. The scope of the project entails the creation of a new dedicated space for... View full entry
Software company Autodesk is cutting its total global workforce by less than 2 percent, with about 250 workers affected.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco-based firm said the layoffs are part of Autodesk’s plans for its 2024 fiscal year, which began this week.
— CRN
The company maintains it is still hiring for a number of positions in different locations globally. The layoffs come as an increasing number of non-architect AEC professionals are using BIM software in their day-to-day workflows, despite criticism from firms of a lack of “serious... View full entry
A new report by Dodge Construction Network has revealed that the Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) fell 8.4% in January to 201.5 from the revised December reading of 220.0. Last month, the commercial component of the DMI fell 10.0%, and the institutional component decreased by 4.7%. The weakness in... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects has just announced its slate of winners for the 2023 edition of the AIA Interior Architecture Awards. The group of eight projects was selected by a five-member panel for their demonstrated "design achievement, including sense of place and purpose, community... View full entry
The Cooper Union has announced it will remount its Vkhutemas exhibition in a reversal apparently brought on by discussions with students, co-organizers, curators Anna Bokov and Steven Hillyer, and members of the school’s Ukrainian community. In a letter dated February 6, the school’s President... View full entry
Fitzroy Food Institute by Samuel Wen and Michael Ren has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Architecture Drawing Prize. Awarded by the World Architecture Festival, Make Architects, and Sir John Soane’s Museum, the winning drawing was selected from the three winners of the prize’s main... View full entry