An opening date has been set for the exciting new Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) project in the South Bronx. Located on the site claiming to be the birthplace of hip hop, the new $80 million museum, which is part of a larger $349 million mixed-use residential development called Bronx Point, will... View full entry
Researchers from Flinders University’s Chalker Research Lab have developed a more sustainable alternative to making bricks by using waste products. The team used low-cost feedstocks to make lightweight but durable polymer building blocks, which can be bonded together with an... View full entry
Los Angeles District Councilmember Kevin de León recently introduced a motion proposing a program titled "Park Blocks," modeled after Barcelona’s Superblock initiative, which would establish usable public space for pedestrians and cyclists by closing certain streets to motorized... View full entry
An influential figure in the realm of ecological design is being mourned after Le Monde reported the death of Belgian architect Lucien Kroll in Brussels on August 2nd at the age of 95. The Atelier Kroll co-founder will be remembered for his foundational work in the arenas of green building and... View full entry
The Architectural League of New York (Arch League), in partnership with The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has announced the 18 winners of the 2022 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant competition.According to the Architectural League, the newly-formed partnership... View full entry
MVRDV will lead a new mixed-use development in the growing Chinese city of Nanjing following the results of an international competition that was announced on Monday.The newly-minted Oasis Towers project reportedly entails two 150-meter-tall (492-foot) towers separated by a green plaza and... View full entry
Industry groups are applauding lawmakers after the passage of the Biden Administration’s recently proposed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, pointing to its more than $5 billion in provisions they say are “critical” to enacting climate change-related policies and modernizing... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based OPEN OFFICE, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series east to Providence, Rhode Island, where we find CIVIC. Founded by architect Manuel Cordero, and based in Providence’s Innovation District, CIVIC’s work is defined by an inclusive... View full entry
Environmentalist blog Treehugger has published an exchange between the author of an anonymous new Twitter manifesto that outlines in 25 points the need to combat the capitalistic notion that endless growth is the only option for modern industrial societies. Patrik Schumacher and... 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 Stairs. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to... View full entry
The latest exhibition at The Modernist in Manchester, England, was made for both architecture and music lovers. For House Music — Architecture on Record Sleeves, the gallery tapped Andy Votel, a designer, DJ, musician and producer, record label owner, and painter, to curate a selection... View full entry
The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's Materials Lab and Interior Design Program have been awarded a $60,000 grant from the Angelo Donghia Foundation. The money will be used to reimagine how students learn about materials by reframing the Materials Lab’s existing collection... View full entry
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Royal College of Art MA graduate in Architecture Hana Sapherson as the next recipient of the prestigious annual Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship.Now in its 16th edition, the scholarship endows a £7,000 ($8,500 USD) award to each... View full entry
Chicago’s steel-framed architectural identity may be about to change thanks to the reintroduction of mass timber as the primary building material in a new 9-story tower designed by local studio Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture for developer Sterling Bay. Noted in a report from... View full entry
A quartet of high-design heavyweights will vie for the chance to author the Portland Museum of Art’s new campus unification and expansion after the institution unveiled its shortlisted Stage II finalists on Wednesday. The competition’s brief yielded a total of 104 submissions from 20 countries... View full entry