Jump-start your job search 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 a diverse range of projects and current job opportunities... View full entry

After committing to shutting down a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard running through the city of Beverly Hills to speed up subway construction earlier this year, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that it has completed decking work in the area seven months ahead of... View full entry

The City of Detroit has established a promising collaboration with Danish architects and urban planners SLA, local firm Giffels Webster, and consultants Utile, CDAD, and HR&A to address and solve the social and urban challenges of the Gratiot / 7 Mile Neighborhood in Detroit. The team was selected... View full entry

Mattew Fleischer, Senior Digital Editor of The Los Angeles Times pens an editorial for the newspaper highlighting the indefensible, racist legacy of highway construction in American cities.  Citing historical research regarding the ways in which highway construction and urban renewal... View full entry

The Met Breuer building in New York City is set to become the new temporary home to the Frick Collection as the Frick's flagship facilities undergo an expansion and renovation led by Selldorf Architects. The Marcel Breuer-designed Brutalist style building was the original home of the Whitney... View full entry

Highlighting the ongoing disruptions emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic, Hip Hop Architecture Camp has announced that it will hold its summer sessions online this year.  According to the Hip Hop Architecture Camp website, the camp is open to middle school and high school students, and will... View full entry

PLP Architecture is designing a new "smart headquarters" for Yandex, the Russian tech qiant, in the Gagarinsky District of Moscow. The 170,000-square-meter campus will enable staff to have a singular space for work, recreation, and inspiration, according to the architects.  The titanium-clad... View full entry

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has published the latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI) report capturing tepid demand for design services during the month of May as the economic fall out from the COVID-19 crisis continues.  The report indicates that the demand for architectural... View full entry

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a plan to move London's city hall facilities from their current location within the Norman Foster-designed "glass gonad" building to the Wilkinson Eyre Architects-designed Crystal building in the city's Docklands district.  The Foster building is a... View full entry

Recent data collected by Procore and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) indicates that construction activity is slowly returning to pre-pandemic levels. Procore, the construction management software company that's been using worker hours to measure construction activity during the... View full entry

A recent monthly report from the United States Census Bureau indicates that residential construction is beginning to claw back toward typical levels following steep drops in construction and permitting activities during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report states that... View full entry

Located in the heart of Guangzhou's bio-tech district, HENN is developing the Medview Regenerative Medicine Innovation Center, a hybrid office and laboratory building set to function as a headquarters and communication center, as well as a development and production platform for start-ups. ... View full entry

An adaptive reuse project designed by global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) that would retrofit an existing 1980s office block in London is moving forward following approval from the City of London Planning & Transportation Committee. The project, located at 81 Newgate Street... View full entry

As restaurants and business across the nation plan to reopen, skepticism towards the long-term safety of these initiatives continues to grow. Although many in the U.S. approach these coming changes with forethought and understanding, several individuals throw caution to the wind and believe the... View full entry

As part of the #architecturefromhome initiative, Foster + Partners has released a new fiction series tailored to the younger mind. Called The Flying Gherkin, the series follows "the Gherkin," a flying building who encounters other works of architecture on his travels. In the second episode... View full entry