HENN and C.F. Møller Architects win first prize for the new Grosshadern Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Clinic Campus, triumphing over 17 other planning teams who competed for the commission. The architects plan to transform the existing structures to create a green, connected, and friendly... View full entry
In 2018 Woods Bagot and Diller Scofidio + Renfro's design proposal was selected as the winning entry for the Adelaide Contemporary International design competition. Both firms describe the center as a "new cultural paradigm that showcases the past, present, and future of... View full entry
From Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have selected five employers with recently listed job openings in New York City and Los Angeles. Take a look at these positions, and visit Archinect Jobs for more opportunities. LA-based design and... View full entry
Mitch McEwen kicked off 2021 with a powerful editorial against Philip Johnson and MoMA. "Institutions that support architecture and design in this country are so overwhelmingly complicit with antiblack racism and antidemocratic politics that the legacy of Johnson continues to circulate as an... View full entry
Following the five-month search for a design team to deliver London's new elevated park, the Camden Highline has selected James Corner Feild Operations to lead the design team. The firm will work in collaboration with vPPR Architects and a number of other creative specialists including London... View full entry
MVRDV today revealed "Marble Arch Hill," a temporary installation next to London's Marble Arch. It is a hollowed-out mountain based on a scaffolding structure designed to create a rendered interest in the surrounding area, which connects Oxford Street and Hyde Park. The design introduces a... View full entry
London’s National Gallery is embarking on a £25m-£30m project to upgrade its building, to be partly completed in early 2024 to celebrate its 200th anniversary. There will be three key elements: upgrading the lobby of the Sainsbury Wing, creating a new research centre and improving outdoor space on the edge of Trafalgar Square. — The Art Newspaper
The Sainsbury Wing, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, will have obvious limitations to what work can be done, given its Grade I listed status. According to The Art Newspaper, the work will be phased over five years. The first step will be to select a design team, which... View full entry
Art Institute of Chicago names Irene Sunwoo the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator, Architecture and Design. Sunwoo's extensive background in architectural history, exhibition, and curatorial studies create an exciting chapter for the Institute and its leadership. Sunwoo served as Curator of... View full entry
Featured in this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler are four briefs in China (Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiaxing) with registration deadlines approaching in the coming days or weeks.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions click... View full entry
A design competition hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape (SAPL) at the University of Calgary asked participants, "how might matters of equity and activism, ecology and environment, and health and wellness converge, and unfold, within our future cities?" Launched... View full entry
Takanao Todo + Sekai Architects have shared with us their winning street furniture design that was completed in October 2020 in the Japanese port city of Yokohama as part of the 4th Yokohama Street Furniture Competition. The intervention aims to provide seating opportunities to the public while... View full entry
James L. "Jim" Nagle, founding member of Chicago-based Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects and an influential voice of the Chicago Seven, a postmodern group of architects formed around Stanley Tigerman in the late 1970s in opposition to the doctrinal application of Modernism at the time, has passed... View full entry
Ten architecture students from five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) are selected to be a part of NOMA's 2021 Foundation Fellowship (NFF). In 2020 NOMA announced the fellowship's inaugural cohort that consisted of 30 students from over 20 architecture... View full entry
The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto shares their upcoming Winter 2021 lecture series. Through the months of January through March, the school invites speakers who will address "the urgency of our contemporary challenges, and the... View full entry
The starting point of everything Superstudio did was dissatisfaction with the uniformity of modern architecture, which its left-wing members saw as an instrument of capitalism that disempowered the masses, robbing them of their individuality and freedom. Sometimes, they made fun of the status quo, or took it to absurd conclusions; other times, they imagined utopian futures. — The New York Times
The exhibition Superstudio Migrazioni about the radical Italian "anti-architecture" collective runs until Sunday, May 16 at CIVA in Brussels. View full entry
