Another week, another opportunity to discover new and exciting architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler. Included in our curated picks this week are the latest call for Harvard GSD's $100,000 Wheelwright Prize travel fellowship, an international ice and snow... View full entry
At the end of September, we released the results of our survey of the architectural community’s plans to return to the office after the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, only 29% of respondents said that their firms required all staff to return to in-studio working, with 15% still required to work... View full entry
Following up on recent superlative creations in Poland, Kenya, and Chile, Studio Daniel Libeskind is back with a proposed design that would bring a new media arts complex to the German city of Potsdam, just south of Berlin. Developer Jan Kretzschmar tapped the firm to create a... View full entry
The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University announces its 2021–22 Forum Lecture Series: Re-Assemble. Open to students and the public, the school's online lectures run from September 2021 through March 2022. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured initiative features... View full entry
The storage has been forced to fit the quirks of the building, rather than the other way around, which seems like an odd way to design an art store. — The Guardian
The Guardian critic interviewed MVRDV frontman Winy Maas to find out if the inspiration for Rotterdam's new open storage museum came from a €3.99 salad bowl, noting its mirrored exterior affects the opposite of its intended invisibility and is also rather difficult to clean. “The... View full entry
Seventy years after one of the darkest chapters in Canadian LGBTQ history began, the Government of Canada has taken steps toward reconciliation and remembrance with a slate of just-announced new proposals for what will one day become the LGBTQ2+ National Monument in Ottawa. By locating it in the... View full entry
From Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have selected five featured employers with recently listed job openings in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco. Take a look at these listings below, and visit Archinect Jobs for... View full entry
It’s a subject with broader relevance than one might initially assume: Perhaps 3 billion people around the world play video games; many millions are spending large amounts of their lives exploring the streets of these virtual cities. Game city design also sheds some light on real-life planning — and not just because designers of successful game cities need to think carefully about the scale, interconnection and visual appeal of what they create. — Bloomberg
The expansion of architecture into the metaverse is inevitable, with designers like Kazys Varnelis and others creating virtual worlds with the expressed intent of taking lessons learned from the digital sphere and applying them to the real built environment. Urban planners, as well as architects... View full entry
The transit agency that oversees New York City’s subway, buses and two regional commuter rails will postpone fare increases for at least six months and defer drastic service cuts now that it anticipates receiving billions of dollars from the federal infrastructure bill, officials said on Monday. — The New York TImes
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that the newly-enacted $1 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden today would allow the state and the MTA to avoid harmful price and service changes. The influx of money comes as the MTA is aggressively trying to lure back ridership, which... View full entry
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s International Prize. First established in 2016, the bi-annual award goes to the best new buildings that demonstrate both a uniqueness in design and an ability to make an impact socially. “These... View full entry
A new community-focused architectural concept by UNStudio, dubbed a “prototype of future living,” has been selected as the winner for a new 118,000-square-meter (1.27 million-square-foot) residential complex in Moscow.The proposal was part of an international competition organized by... View full entry
Gould Evans is no stranger to executing award-winning library and community-focused projects as a nationally recognized architecture and design firm. From the expansion of the 1970's Brutalist-style Lawrence Public Library to the renovations of New Orleans Public Libraries, the team at Gould Evans... View full entry
The ending of this year’s COP26 conference has left many architects to ponder how effective the mostly non-representative group of negotiators were in addressing the skepticism and high expectations coming into the meeting that is meant to address what is undoubtedly the greatest moral issue of... View full entry
The Architects Foundation has announced the launch of the Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT) ARE Scholarship, providing support for aspiring Black architects within the licensing process. Through the scholarship, the organization is aiming to double the number of licensed Black architects in the... View full entry
The Royal Institute of British Architects is now accepting applications for its 2022 awards cycle. Now is your chance to be a part of one of the world's most important and well-recognized architectural juried awards. The prestigious slate of annual prizes starts with the Regional Awards and... View full entry
