For our latest weekly curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected four challenges calling for innovative design solutions contributing to a circular economy, architectural concepts seeking to disrupt old, failed modes of operation, promising BIPOC... View full entry
Grafton Architects has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) as the winner of this year’s Stirling Prize for the best new building in the UK. The Dublin-based firm won for its Town House multipurpose academic and arts space for Kingston University... View full entry
In the wake of the deadly Champlain Towers collapse in Surfside, Florida in June, several groups are calling for improvements to building safety standards. The groups include a statewide association of contractors calling for steps to improve building structural safety, and a task force from... View full entry
LIPMAN has been announced as the winner of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s Garage Screen 2022 Architectural Concept Competition.The Moscow-based firm will create the pavilion used in the museum’s Garage Screen summer cinema series. The winning design called for a load-bearing frame... View full entry
Pioneering landscape architect Julie Bargmann has been announced as the inaugural winner of the newly-formed Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. Known for her work in regenerative landscapes, the University of Virginia faculty member now has the honor of being... View full entry
Retail design has gone through plenty of changes over the years. From exciting storefronts to immersive experiential designs, architects and designers have helped reshape design possibilities for retail. But, beyond the looming fear of the retail apocalypse, the pandemic has added... View full entry
An IT specialist in his 30s, he says that his interest in his hometown’s Soviet-era architectural history began gradually, starting with an appreciation of 19th-century neoclassical architecture. From there, he became interested in constructivism, and finally, modernism. “I began to understand that these [Soviet-era buildings] were not just ‘boring, Soviet panels’, as most people thought of them, but perhaps masterpieces of world architecture.” — The Calvert Journal
The Ukrainian port city of Odesa offers a unique blend of popular 19th-century styles and Soviet-era modernism. Architect Heinrich Topuz’s Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy, completed in 1981, stands as one of the city’s best examples of building in the period. Similar social media tributes... View full entry
As part of the institution’s renewed focus on pressing social issues through its selection of public programming, the National Building Museum has announced a major new exhibition looking into the part design professionals can play in a topic not too far removed from America’s visual... View full entry
Whence a military installation, now an art gallery. A new adaptive reuse project from Signal Architecture + Research has transformed a one-time coastal artillery fortification in Port Townsend, Washington into an eight-acre arts compound with accommodations for studios, exhibition space, and a new... View full entry
As is frequently discussed on Archinect, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already-bourgeoning trend of companies offering remote working options to employees. In our recent survey of the architectural community’s plans to return to offices after the pandemic, only 29% of respondents... View full entry
French firm Studio Malka Architecture has announced a new project that will see the addition of a striking collection of curved, modular extensions to the French Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Built in the early 20th century, the embassy is situated within two buildings that express an Art... View full entry
It is a case of “adapt or die”, said the Environment Agency’s chair, Emma Howard Boyd, warning that deadly events such as the flooding in Germany this summer would hit the UK if the country did not make itself resilient to the more violent weather the climate emergency was bringing. — The Guardian
With some big-name resiliency projects planned in Miami and New York for the next few years, the UK now faces a renewed push to invest in its flood-adverse communities before they suffer irreversible damage due to climate change. Sea walls are still a popular infrastructure solution to the crisis... View full entry
Ahead of his hotly-anticipated feature release, The French Dispatch, director and design savant Wes Anderson is lending his hand to the transportation sector thanks to a unique collaboration between Anderson and Belmond British Pullman. Anderson, whose 2007 epic The Darjeeling Limited was famously... View full entry
Buzz is spreading around Denmark this week following the completion of the design capital’s first-ever purpose-built architectural school in Aarhus, its second-largest city. Image © ADEPT The Danish firm ADEPT has converted a 12,500-square-meter (135,000-square-feet) former railyard site at... View full entry
New images released by Urbanize LA reveal that the Eric Owen Moss Architects-designed (W)RAPPER office tower has topped out. The 17-story, 183,000-square-foot high-rise stands out with its free-form steel exoskeleton that wraps the structure allowing for column-free... View full entry
