Pritzker Prize winner Francis Kéré’s firm has shared photos of their just-completed Kamwokya Community Centre project in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Designed for the city’s informal settlement of Kamwokya, the center hosts a variety of activities and educational resources for residents... View full entry
From Archinect's active community of job seekers, firms, and schools, we have picked five featured employers with current jobs in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and remote. Take a look at the latest openings below, and visit Archinect Jobs for the complete list of available opportunities... View full entry
A proposed new residential project in Zanzibar, Tanzania, could challenge Milwaukee's Ascent tower for the title of world’s tallest mass timber structure after being unveiled to the public on October 1. Rising 28 stories to a height of approximately 315 feet, the Burj Zanzibar is designed by the... View full entry
Howard University has selected Moody Nolan and the Washington DC-based KGD Architecture to design the next piece in its ongoing $785 million campus revitalization. According to a press announcement by Moody Nolan, once completed, the new Center for Fine Arts & Communications will contain... View full entry
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has announced a new policy mandating the use of small-scale green infrastructure on curb extension projects throughout the city. A set of five design standards will be introduced to help expand the adaptation and maintenance of the measures with the larger aim of improving... View full entry
Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a new type of material that can create adaptable, strong structures by learning from its surroundings. Dubbed a ‘mechanical neural network’ by its creators, the material uses a unique lattice structure that can... View full entry
Ennead has been announced as the winner of an international competition for a new art museum in the historic port city of Wuxi in eastern China.Drawing on the central metaphor of a Taihu Scholar Stone, the museum’s site and massing evoke a “contemplative and intricate spatial structure... View full entry
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has unveiled details of an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of media artist Refik Anadol. Titled Refik Anadol: Unsupervised, and open from November 19th, 2022 through March 5th 2023, the installation will feature three new digital artworks by the... View full entry
Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced that a joint team of SOM and Selldorf Architects will lead a major modernization of its now 48-year-old Gordon Bunshaft-designed facility in the last of a three-phase campus revitalization that will begin in 2025, according... View full entry
Two ongoing exhibitions in America and the United Kingdom are offering a look at the diverse contributions of Zaha Hadid to the world of product design on what would have been the architect’s 72nd birthday. First established in 2006, Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD), the studio arm of Hadid’s... View full entry
This October, the Center for Architecture and the AIA New York celebrated Common Bond: The Center for Architecture Gala. Formerly known as Heritage Ball, the annual event invites architects, designers, and industry professionals to come together to celebrate the historic architecture of New... View full entry
The Architecture Drawing Prize has announced its three category winners for the 2022 edition of the award, now in its sixth year and co-curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and World Architecture Festival (WAF)."This event has become a showcase for the best in contemporary... View full entry
“In the 70s and 80s, my ideas were ignored. I was antagonistic to postmodernism [...] and I paid a price.” — The Guardian
The 84-year-old Habitat 67 mastermind sat down with Rowan Moore to discuss his career and new memoir If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture. Among other topics, he said he had “no idea” that his 2011 Marina Bay Sands design would become “an instant icon” and that the political... View full entry
Starting Tuesday, most employers in New York City will be required by law to post salary minimums and maximums in any open job posting. Almost all job postings online or on signs on storefronts across New York City will be required to list a salary minimum and maximum starting Tuesday. Postings can’t leave the salary open ended, like posting “$15 an hour and up.”
Any job that can be performed at least partly in New York City is covered, whether the worker is in an office or working remotely.
— Gothamist
The city had previously voted to delay the law from taking effect in May amidst resistance from the business community, which in the end only gained an amendment laden with small concessions. Now first-time offenders will no longer be penalized, though fines for any proceeding non-compliance... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Portland-based Skylab Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Atlanta, GA this week to meet multidisciplinary boutique studio House Walker. Led by Hank Houser and Gregory Walker, the firm has expanded from its 2004 founding to encompass a... View full entry