A celebration of Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto as the 53rd official Pritzker Prize laureate was held in Chicago over the weekend. Yamamoto was joined by past winners Francis Kéré (2022) and Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal (2021) on stage at the Illinois Institute of Technology College... View full entry
Work on the OMA-led new LANTERN project has been completed in Detroit’s Little Village neighborhood. The block-sized 22,300-square-foot complex serves as a new home for two local arts non-profits. Signal-Return, designed by Detroit-based M1DTW, and PASC (Progressive Arts Studio Collective) will... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Massachusetts-based Murdough Design, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Oregon this week to explore the work of Waechter Architecture. Launched in 2007, and based in Portland, the firm has built a portfolio orientated around clarity of composition... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Kitchen Spaces. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW... View full entry
The next exhibition held at the National Building Museum in Washington will tell the story of D.C.’s Brutalist architecture and its role in reshaping the city after mid-century. Organized in collaboration with the Southern Utah Museum of Art, the exhibition features several... View full entry
British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out $25 million to fraudsters.
A spokesperson for London-based Arup told CNN on Friday that it notified Hong Kong police in January about the fraud incident, and confirmed that fake voices and images were used.
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“Our financial stability and business operations were not affected and none of our internal systems were compromised,” an Arup spokesperson told CNN. The employee in question was apparently misled into believing they were in a video conference with senior finance staffers that were in reality... View full entry
To coincide with UNESCO’s International Day of Light celebration on May 16th, The Daylight Award has announced Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza and the German biologist Till Roenneberg as the respective honorees in this year’s Daylight in Architecture and Daylight Research categories. View full entry
BIG has designed a new remote hotel concept on Sagi Island, Japan, for the NOT A HOTEL brand, its sixth property overall. The new Setouchi project follows other hospitality designs from the firm, including the new Hôtel des Horlogers in Switzerland and Vollebak Island in Canada. Rendering: MIR... View full entry
If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four calls seeking exceptional church designs completed within the past decade, Star Wars-themed droid designs made using Autodesk... View full entry
Ayers Saint Gross has shared renderings of its new design in Charlotte, NC. Phase 1, which is set to open in 2025, includes two new buildings totaling 685,000 square feet, two parking garages with 1,100 parking spaces, and a central plaza. The project is part of The Pearl; a planned innovation... View full entry
The UQAM Design Centre at the University of Quebec in Montreal will be hosting a new exhibition, (IN)VISIBLE: Design through the Prism of Homelessness, that offers insights for designers looking towards solutions for how to make the crisis of homelessness currently gripping many Western... View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron is advancing on the construction of its new FORUM UZH design at the University of Zurich following a permit issuance for the project whose bid was born out of a 2018 international competition. Preparatory site work will begin in August for the new building, which replaces... View full entry
New York City has broken ground on the important new Battery Coastal Resilience project in Lower Manhattan. The critical $200 million component of the city’s larger Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency strategy is meant to protect 12,000 businesses and about 100,000 New Yorkers. It has been... View full entry
This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs features 16 Project Manager and Project Architect roles currently available in New York City. To explore specific job titles from the architectural profession, consult Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series. Also, follow our... View full entry
Marywood University in Pennsylvania has announced the first-ever undergraduate degree-granting academic program dedicated to training students in virtual architecture. The new Bachelor of Virtual Architecture (BVA) program is tailored to learners interested in careers building immersive... View full entry
