The Austrian government this week presented the winning competition entry for the redesign of a historic, inconspicuous looking house in the small town of Braunau am Inn. The true significance of the brief lies in the building's weighty history and its most infamous former resident... View full entry
Does the destruction of buildings matter when black Americans are being brazenly murdered in cold blood by police and vigilantes?
That’s the question that has been raging on the streets of Philadelphia, and across my architecture-centric social media feeds, over the last two days as a dark cloud of smoke spiraled up from Center City.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
Inga Saffron, architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, offers a nuanced look at the relationship between protest, property destruction, and economic development in under-invested areas in her latest column. The article comes as cities around the country grapple with fierce protests... View full entry
Located on the campus of China Resources University, a private educational institution in Shenzhen, the design of Studio Link-Arc's China Resources Archive Library is composed of a dual program. At 9,000 square meters, the building's function serves as an archive for the university and holds all... View full entry
In the days since protests seeking justice for Black and African Americans who have died at the hands of police broke out around the country, a growing number of architecture schools have issued statements in support of this ascendant political and social movement. These statements come as... View full entry
Gensler, WXY, PSF Projects, PBDW, SITU, and Urban Projects Collaborative have come together with Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) to develop a toolkit that explores ideas for how school layouts and operating procedures might change in the wake of the... View full entry
IKEA's research and design lab SPACE10 has teamed up with Bakken & Bæck and designer Tanita Klein to launch an open-source Bee Home. The offering is in response to the collaborative's recognition of the essentiality of bees for life on earth, which includes one third of all of the food we eat... View full entry
University of Southern California School of Architecture Dean Milton S.F. Curry issued a statement today commenting on the ongoing racial justice-focused protests taking place nationwide. Curry's message comes as various architecture organizations and firms, including the American Institute... View full entry
This week's highlight of architectural employers includes four regionally diverse architecture and engineering practices with current job openings in the US and Canada. For even more opportunities, visit Archinect Jobs and browse Archinect's active community of architecture... View full entry
This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address design as protest, community engagement, adaptive cities, post-COVID workplace design and public spaces, and modes of architectural practice. Live streams include AIA's 25-year award (postponed to June... View full entry
This post is brought to you by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, an Archinect School Partner *Details of this event have been updated RUMBLE is UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s end-of-year exhibition. It is an opportunity to showcase how the architectural and urban ideas that motivate us... View full entry
This year the Harvard University Graduate School of Design has awarded its coveted Wheelwright Prize to Daniel Fernández Pascual. The $100,000 fellowship funds travel-based research to support and investigate contemporary architecture and design. The Wheelwright Prize was... View full entry
Australia's Sunshine Coast Council has invested in its future by producing an inspiring design guide in the form of a visually stunning book. The book showcases how good design is vital to protecting what the community values most. The Sunshine Coast is coveted globally for its sub-tropical... View full entry
As part of an effort to help guide the transition to "new lifestyle norms" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has published a collection of tools that spell out strategies for re-occupying and retrofitting existing spaces. The tools, an... View full entry
Over the weekend as courthouses, monuments, business districts, and public spaces around the country became backdrops to fierce protests seeking justice for the killings of Minneapolis resident George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police, a collection of architecture, design, and... View full entry
The artist Christo, who with his late wife and partner Jeanne-Claude was known for his monumental, often whimsical interventions on architecture and landscape, has died, aged 84. The artist’s studio confirmed on Twitter that he died at his home in New York [...] — The Art Newspaper
Due to the scale and spatial nature of their art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have made frequent appearances in the Archinect news over the years. Recently on Archinect: Christo comes to Paris in 2020 to wrap the Arc de Triomphe View full entry
