Are you looking for specific architectural positions that require your extensive experience and robust set of advanced skills? Take a look at ten openings for intermediate to senior-level positions in New York City that were recently posted on Archinect Jobs. If you need to look up specific job... View full entry
Titled Coronation, the documentary film looks at the lockdown in Wuhan, China during the COVID-19 outbreak that took place earlier this year. The work, which Ai Weiwei remotely directed and produced from Europe, takes viewers into the heart of the rapidly constructed emergency field hospitals... View full entry
New York City-based SO-IL has nearly completed work on the six-story Las Americas social housing project in León, Mexico that aims to offer a new "prototype for the development of vertical dwellings" in the city. The project, created in partnership with Imuvi Development and the City of... View full entry
RUR Architecture's (formerly Reiser + Umemoto) 756,000-square-foot Performance Hall at the Taipei Music Center (TMC) has officially opened with its first concert planned to take place this month. Located in the Nangung District, the project sits on a 9-hectare site in Taipei and is dedicated to... View full entry
Supporters saw [SB 1122] as a way to ease California’s affordability problems that most economists blame on a lack of supply that has forced people to bid up home prices and rents to find a place to live. [...]
But like previous efforts to upend California zoning rules, SB 1120 faced pushback from community groups concerned it would ruin single-family neighborhoods, making them into denser places with too much noise and traffic.
— The Los Angeles Times
Another attempt to bring statewide housing reforms to California's zoning code has failed after a last-ditch effort to pass a bill that would allow homeowners to build two units per lot fell short. SB 1122 was created as response to the failure of the recent SB 50 densification plan, which... View full entry
In Moscow, the search for architectural teams to design two new metro stations has concluded with the selection of the final competition winners: a consortium led by Zaha Hadid Architects was chosen to take on the "Klenoviy Bulvar 2" station on the Biryulyovskaya line, and Russian ASADOV... View full entry
Over time architects develop a distinct ability to solve their client's "problem" in a manner that encompasses their personal touch and creative aptitude. There is a realization that the project is about someone else, but the vehicle and means to realize that project is grounded in the designer... View full entry
Global architecture firm Gensler has once again out earned all other practices in the United States. For the ninth year in a row, the San Francisco-based design giant has topped the list of Architectural Record's Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms list. As typical, the 2020 list encompasses earnings... View full entry
Paris-based Hamonic+Masson & Associates has completed "Urban Quartz," an urban development of three office buildings designed to establish a more prominent office sector in Rennes, France. Each structure is uniquely shaped to create the impression of a canyon-like experience through jagged folds... View full entry
Opera, the new public art permanent installation by Edoardo Tresoldi on Reggio Calabria's seafront, will be inaugurated on September 12th and 13th. The opening will host a series of music, performance, and poetry events administered in compliance with current COVID-19 guidelines. "Opera was... View full entry
As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact how aspiring architects earn their licensing credentials, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has announced that it will begin remote examinations for the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) on November 16th... View full entry
The pandemic is expected to drastically reshape commercial real estate, leaving thousands of vacant and underused spaces nationwide. But some developers and investors are keen to seize the chance to convert those properties into other uses. — The New York Times
Tom Acitelli of The New York Times investigates some of the ways in which office and commercial spaces may be rethought in coming years as conversions from previous uses facilitate a massive transformation within the American built environment on a scale that is largely without precedent. In... View full entry
Kick your job search into the next gear with our latest weekly highlight of architectural employers. Selected from Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, these five practices stand out with impressive work and current job opportunities in New... View full entry
Architect John Calvin "Jack" Portman III has passed away at age 71. Jack, who passed away from natural causes, led Portman Architects following the death of his father, John Portman, in 2017. Jack earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of... View full entry
British-Italian architect Richard Rogers will soon retire from his namesake architecture firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), which was founded in 1977. Rogers is one of the leading lights of late-20th century High-Tech architecture, and helped design many significant buildings... View full entry