The Architecture Lobby, an organization familiar to most of our readers, dedicated to elevating the value of architecture and architectural work, has shared with us a letter they penned in support of the Future Architects Fronts’ open letter to RIBA. The Future Architects... View full entry
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“All my buildings fly, which when you think about it makes perfect sense because an architect spends his life fighting against the force of gravity,” he says. “By levitating a building, it does not take from the city and its people – it gives something back.” — Financial Times
Renzo Piano in conversation with the Financial Times. Related on Archinect: Construction completes on Renzo Piano's long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA. Photo by Josh White, JWPictures © Academy Museum Foundation View full entry
UNC Charlotte's School of Architecture welcomes Sekou Cooke to its faculty as the Director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program. Cooke is an acclaimed architect, educator, curator, and researcher whose work exemplifies a career in shaping design practice with social justice... View full entry
The latest economic report from the American Institute of Architects is indicating a mild sense of optimism: the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for the month February climbed back into positive territory for the first time since February 2020. At a score of 53.3, the new ABI marked a... View full entry
Located at Vernon Boulevard and 43rd Street, Teitelbaum believes his $250 million, six-acre project designed by SHoP Architects will provide thousands of jobs while cutting carbon emissions by 70 percent and supplying energy to the Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing complex in the country.
The project would also see the construction of a "RiverLInC Greenway" connecting the Long Island City waterfront to Roosevelt Island.
— Urbanize NYC
This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include the second session of Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations this Friday. Other events to tune into this week feature Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Ana María León, Torsten Lange, Bryan Lee... View full entry
While the Frick Collection's Gilded Age mansion in Manhattan undergoes a $160-million expansion and renovation project led by Selldorf Architects with Executive Architect Beyer Blinder Belle, highlights of the substantial art collection have found a temporary new home for the next two years... View full entry
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected a number of scholarships, fellowships, and financial student support programs with application deadlines approaching in the coming weeks.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions... View full entry
With advanced versions of digital magic developing every day, architects and designers now are able to connect more fluidly with the global design community. In this paperless, new era we live in, we welcome a recently launched feature in Morpholio's Trace app, the Smart Hatch. Morpholio has... View full entry
Titled La Ferita, Italian for “The Wound,” the work creates an optical illusion of a great gash running through the institution’s external walls. Through the cracks, those on the outside can once again peer into a black-and-white vision of the interior of the shuttered building, with some of Florence’s famous artworks and cultural heritage on view. — Artnet
The new site-specific trompe-l'œil installation — measuring 28 meters/92 feet tall and 33 meters/108 feet wide — by prolific French artist JR opened on March 19, shortly after many major Italian cities were ordered back under another COVID-19 lockdown. View this post on Instagram... View full entry
Across the United States, construction workers were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not to diminish the hardships and sacrifices of other essential workers and industries affected by the pandemic, Susannah Jacob of the Atlantic highlights the ongoing dangers and overshadowed accounts of... View full entry
Plans are underway to start building in 2022 a pocket park where people experiencing homelessness will not only be welcome but will also be asked to design and build aspects of the space. It’s the only project of its kind in Philadelphia, say design professionals involved in the project. — The Philadelphia Inquirer
Supported by a grant from the William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia's largest homeless shelter, the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, aims to plan and build the small pocket park near its facility on North Pearl Street. View full entry
It’s easy to imagine CLT becoming the next luxury building trend to invade the skylines of rapidly gentrifying cities, giving an eco-friendly excuse for remaking the city in service of maximized profit. [...]
In order for mass timber to truly engage with the regenerative power of forests to help alleviate our current climate predicament, it must be linked to a greater movement towards ecological reformation at all scales.
— Failed Architecture
In his latest piece for Failed Architecture, writer and architect Alexander Hadley takes a critical look at the future economical and environmental impact of the accelerating cross-laminated timber boom. "Building from regenerative materials like trees instead of intensively extracted substances... View full entry
The tough competition faced by architecture practices in the UK has led to the hiring of workers at pay rates that make commercial sense, and there’s not much the RIBA can do to change that. Part 1 and 2 ‘assistant architects’ have turned to mass protest against the working conditions... View full entry
