As the Russian invasion of Ukraine presses on into its fourth week, volunteers and cultural workers, a number of whom are also at arms, are rushing to erect makeshift barriers and other forms of protection against what could be a demoralizing strike against heritage sites across the embattled... View full entry
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced plans to set aside $200 million for the new Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York (FAST NY) grant program, which aims to attract and expand key growth industries to New York State. The money has been made available through Hochul’s... View full entry
Florida’s state legislature has failed to pass a bill which would have strengthened requirements to inspect and repair the state’s aging condo stock. The new legislation was drafted in response to the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in June 2021, which killed 98 people... View full entry
Change at the top of the museum world as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced Mexican architect Frida Escobedo as its new designer of the forthcoming Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art. Escobedo now officially replaces David Chipperfield... View full entry
In a sign the Buffalo Bills are closing in on a stadium deal, the team hired Populous architectural firm to draw up designs for its proposed new facility, a person familiar with discussions confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday. — AP News
The Buffalo Bills are seeking to replace their existing facility, which opened in 1973. Renovations were deemed too expensive. Negotiations are ongoing to see if state funds would be allocated toward the proposed $1.354 billion open-air, 60,000-plus seat stadium. According to AP News, New York... View full entry
The colorful new centerpiece of the 2022 Floriade horticultural exhibition is now set to debut after MVRDV announced the completion of its 43.5-meter (142-foot) Flores Tower in the Dutch city of Almere. The vibrant structure comes complete with a custom-made, AR-enabled panoramic facade artwork... View full entry
An expansion at Universal Studios Hollywood will bring the spinning coins and floating blocks of the “Super Mario Bros.” video game to the theme park next year, marking the completion of one in just a handful of theme park expansions in the U.S. since the onset of COVID-19. — The Los Angeles Times
Park officials have billed the new expansion as a “visual spectacle of vibrant colors and architectural ingenuity located within a newly expanded area of the theme park, featuring a groundbreaking ride and interactive areas, to be enjoyed by the whole family." Related on Archinect: Super... View full entry
The Office 2021 Design Challenge has released the winning and shortlisted entries Hosted by Bee Breeders in partnership with Archhive Books, this was the first edition of an annual competition series, in which participants are tasked with exploring workplace design. The brief responds to the... View full entry
LIN Architecture has returned to rural China's Jiangsu Province with an update to its previous “space experiment” into ergonomics, proxemics, and human behavior titled simply Wooden Pavilion #2. Personal space, a respite into which individuals have the bandwith to contemplate... View full entry
February 17 was a night of many firsts for the College of Architecture and Planning, Dean Nan Ellin said. For the first time in two years, students, faculty, and staff gathered in-person for the grand opening of CAP’s latest exhibition at its second floor gallery in the CU Denver Building. Marking its first in-person gathering since the start of the pandemic, CAP is thrilled to showcase the life and work of John R. Henderson, Colorado’s first licensed Black architect. — CU Denver News
The exhibit was curated by College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) Research Assistant Schawn Chi Ming Li and consisted of 300 drawings, audio recordings, and architectural models produced throughout Henderson’s life and career. Henderson, who passed away in 2018, was one of very few Black... View full entry
Coming off a two-year Covid-related hiatus, the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology has officially announced the jury and list of nominated projects for the 2022 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). The award was launched in 2013 to highlight built works in the... View full entry
Two years into the project, they construct the city in short and mobile sprints. “We circle around different districts,” explained Minefact. “We work one week in Chinatown, then one week in Tribeca, one week on Bowery and then come back to Chinatown. We always work on multiple districts at the same time to keep things interesting.” — Curbed
The crowdsourced design-build was begun by a German user named MineFact who had attempted a similar project the year before for his hometown of Frankfurt using rendering software that incorporated data taken from Google Maps. Incorporating a replacement for the obsolete Mercator projection... View full entry
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Fund has launched a new program to support women of color obtain landscape architecture licensure and increase racial and gender diversity within the field. In its inaugural year, the Women of Color Licensure Advancement Program will... View full entry
A team of academics working in the Digital Structures research group at MIT's Building Technology Program has combined local aesthetic desires with the recent international push to expend increasing amounts of mass timber elements into new construction. Associate professor Caitlin Mueller is... View full entry
Competitions organizers Bee Breeders have unveiled the results of their Humble Architecture: Everest Challenge, which sought ideas for the design of toilet facilities that could improve the lives of users, and take account of environmental standards. News of the results comes in the same week... View full entry
