As the final weeks of March approach, architecture schools continue with their Spring 2022 lecture event programming. Boston Architectural College, a winner by popular vote of Archinect's 2021 Get Lectured Poster competition, provides another series of lecture events to watch. The... View full entry
The MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival brings architects, designers, students, artists, and the community to celebrate new and exciting design visions for Mexico City. Since the first MEXTRÓPOLI festival in 2014, the event has continued to be a pillar event for the architecture and design... View full entry
I never saw myself connected to this big thing. I was just using my skills to create comfortable spaces and beautiful schools and housing for my people. No, I never dreamed to see this work connected with Pritzker. No, no, never. — NPR
NPR’s Michel Martin got the newest Pritzker laureate and recently-named Dakar Goethe Institute designer to harken back to his childhood village in Burkina Faso, which he credited as a strong influence beginning with his educational experiences in darkened classrooms that frequently hovered... View full entry
Change has come to the UK’s leading architectural association as The Architects’ Journal is reporting that RIBA’s current Director of Inclusion & Diversity Marsha Ramroop is departing from the organization after just 13 months on the job. The institution is going through an administrative... View full entry
Inglewood’s futuristic SoFi Stadium is considered an architectural feat. Now, the structural marvel has been rendered in miniature form. A Lego model of the stadium — where the Rams recently captured their first Super Bowl title in the L.A. area — will be unveiled to the public Thursday at the Legoland theme park in Carlsbad. But don’t call it small. — Los Angeles Times
The miniature SoFi Stadium is now the largest Lego stadium in the world. It will join Legoland California’s Miniland U.S.A. attraction, an area of the park that features models of U.S. cities, such as San Francisco and Washington D.C. Video courtesy CBS Los Angeles The HKS-designed stadium... View full entry
The winning projects of the 2022 National Urban Design Awards have been revealed by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CLSA). Thirteen projects across Canada were recognized for... View full entry
A popular corner of Hollywood may soon be getting a lot busier thanks to a proposal for a new Grammy-worthy creative campus located at the crossroads of the entertainment industry’s two most important arteries. Tentatively named the CMNTY Culture Campus, the proposed 500,000-square-foot design... View full entry
The longlist has been published for the 2022 Davidson Prize, the second edition of the annual competition series. The 2022 theme, “Co-Living: A New Future,” called on entrants to speculate on the potential for co-living models to tackle systemic issues in the housing sector, including... View full entry
An engineering marvel in the making, the world’s tallest railway bridge being constructed over Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district is likely to come up by December next year This railway bridge is part of the Udhampur-Srinagar- Baramulla Rail Link Project, which is the most challenging project being undertaken post-independence by Indian Railways. — RFI
The viral bridge is slightly higher up than the Najiehe Railway Bridge in China, which stands a total of 305 meters (about 1000 feet) in height. Fears by some about a potential terrorist attack had to be engineered into the span with blast-proof steel and other military-grade components owing to... View full entry
From Archinect's growing community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have picked five featured employers with recently listed job opportunities in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Orange, California. Take a look at these positions below... View full entry
Morpholio today launched another powerful tool inside its popular TracePro app that allows architects, designers, and landscape architects to "control the sun." Dubbed "Shadow Maker," the new in-app feature lets users add and adjust solar positioning within a project in real-time... View full entry
The world of architectural theory is in mourning after news that architect, urbanist, AIA Gold Medalist, and former UC Berkeley professor Christopher Alexander passed away peacefully in his home in the south of England Thursday following a long illness. Alexander was a pioneering theorist and... View full entry
Mayor Eric Adams said the city will crack down on buildings with a high number of fire safety violations, two months after a blaze killed 17 tenants of a Bronx high-rise with a history of complaints. As part of a new executive order signed on Sunday, the city will increase information sharing between the FDNY and the city’s housing inspectors “to identify safety violations earlier and increase fire safety compliance.” — Gothamist
As part of what’s called Executive Order 12, the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) will launch a broad campaign to educate New Yorlers on fire safety. The order will also require the FDNY to conduct more frequent inspections of... View full entry
It started as a way to connect two sides of Sydney Harbour but, over 90 years, has become an iconic part of visiting Australia.
It’s an icon of Australia and a beacon to tourists around the world.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is celebrating 90 years since it opened to the public on March 19, 1932.
— 7News Sydney
The City of Sydney recently published a fascinating delve into the history of the 1,650-foot span bridge, including the Coachella-like program of festivities that surrounded its original opening ceremony. This past weekend’s celebration included the symbolic interchange of a vintage 1920s F... View full entry
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait on Friday (18 March). It has a central span of 2,023m, which means it usurps the title of world’s longest suspension bridge from the Akashi Kaikyo crossing in Kobe, Japan. — Global Construction Review
As reported by Global Construction Review, the new bridge cost €2.5 billion ($2.76 billion) to construct and is expected to generate €5.3 billion ($5.84 billion) in economic output, creating 118,000 jobs and €2.4 billion ($2.65 billion) in revenue. Named after an Ottoman naval victory... View full entry