The winners of eVolo Magazine’s 2024 Skyscraper Competition have been unveiled. Three winners and 14 honorable mentions were selected from a total of 206 projects submitted. Established in 2006, the annual award "recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology... View full entry
A new creative digital suite promising itself as the "Getty Images of premium spatial assets" has just been launched by San Francisco-based design technology startup Treasury Spatial Data in response to the growing influence of spatial computing in nearly every segment of the design industry... View full entry
The total number of construction starts increased by 10% in May, according to data in Dodge Construction Network’s latest Construction Starts Index. Nonbuilding starts increased by 49%, while residential starts fell 7% and nonresidential building starts went down 2%. On a year-to-date basis... View full entry
New analytic reporting on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data for May from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has documented an overall 0.9% decrease in construction input prices. For the month, nonresidential construction input prices fell by 0.8%. Overall... View full entry
A decade ago the only way to secure a bed in Sydney’s brutalist icon, the Sirius building, was a proven need and time on the social housing waitlist. Now the price of admission starts at $1.55m – for a studio apartment. [...]
Advocates who fought to save the building from the wrecking balls and from being sold see it now as the pinnacle of privatisation that failed the state’s most vulnerable.
— The Guardian
The fate of Sydney’s martyred Rocks mirrors closely that of London’s Trelick and Balfron Towers, and the future of Singapore’s once caste-busting social housing system. As of our last reporting, the brutalist landmark has (finally, and forever) been saved from the wrecking ball — only... View full entry
Future city dwellers could beat the heat with clothes made of a new fabric that keeps them cool. The textile, made of a plastic material and silver nanowires, is designed to stay cool in urban settings by taking advantage of a principle known as radiative cooling – the natural process by which objects radiate heat into space. — New Scientist
The material was designed by a team of researchers at the University of Chicago led by Po-Chun Hsu, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering. They designed it to block more than half of the radiation from the buildings and the ground. As reported by New Scientist, the material emits heat in... View full entry
The unfortunate "winner" of the UK’s Carbuncle Cup, which annually celebrates the country’s most detested new architecture, has been announced as the 2019 Liverpool Lime Street redevelopment scheme from Broadway Malyan. The contest, which is presented by the London-based magazine The Fence... View full entry
On May 18, 2024, the University of Pennsylvania awarded Lin Huiyin (林徽因) with an architecture degree, exactly 100 years after they refused to admit her into their undergraduate program because she was a woman. [...]
With the news of Lin’s belated degree quickly going viral on Chinese social media, her name is again in the public eye. It is therefore a good opportunity to revisit her legacy and correct the prejudice and stereotypes that have overshadowed Lin’s story.
— The World of Chinese
Lin Huiyin’s story was included in the Weitzman School’s 2022 exhibition ‘Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture,’ which examined her and her classmates' influence in China after 1920. Often detracting from it are accounts of her personal life and relationship... View full entry
The Art Newspaper is reporting on the failure of a legal challenge that would have blocked Toronto’s controversial plans to realize a massive spa complex on the site of Ontario Place after the provincial Superior Court of Justice’s June 11th decision. The project is contentious on both... View full entry
In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs, we are featuring four architecture and design firms with current openings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. For even more opportunities, head over to the Archinect job board and explore our active community of job... View full entry
“The city of Los Angeles has worked very hard to brand these as tiny homes as if they are a housing solution, which they absolutely are not,” said Shayla Myers, a senior attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. “In reality, these are tiny sheds.” — The New York Times
Firsthand accounts of what it’s like to live inside one of the eleven tiny home villages scattered across parts of the San Fernando Valley and northeast LA often underscore their value as bulwarks against unsheltered homelessness in the city. Feedback from on-site mental health professionals... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Portland-based LEVER Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to San Francisco this week to explore the work of STUDIO BANAA. Founded in 2015 by Nastaran Mousavi and Dane Bunton, the firm has built a portfolio of fresh, dynamic spaces defined... View full entry
The College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has announced its selection of alum Adare Brown as the winner of its 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in... View full entry
This edition of Bustler's curated picks of noteworthy architecture and design competitions features eight calls seeking forward-thinking, innovative products and services, urban design proposals for the planned Hangzhou Jiangnan City of Science, outstanding projects in architecture, interior... View full entry
Your chance to build a version of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's seminal Usonian home designs has now become available thanks to a new collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Seattle-based home construction company Lindal Cedar Homes. Replica designs inspired by the... View full entry
