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Landscape and planning studio SCAPE has announced the addition of architects BIG to a new adaptive reuse project in southern Fairfield County, Connecticut, called Manresa Island. The project, which is set to reimagine a decommissioned coal-fired power plant into a new 125-acre... View full entry
Earlier last month, President Biden’s appointment of architects Bruce Redman Becker and William J. Lenihan to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) was announced in Washington, D.C. The new appointments serve as replacements for James McCrery and Duncan Stroik following the culmination... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Oregon-based Waechter Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Connecticut this week to explore the work of Beinfield Architecture. Founded in 1983 by Bruce Beinfield, with an office located in South Norwalk, CT, the firm has built a... View full entry
The reopening returns a certain architectural equilibrium to Johnson’s estate. The original paired structures, said Kirsten Reoch, who was named executive director of the Glass House campus last summer, “are two parts of a whole. Neither was conceived without the other. So the idea that we’ve been showing and interpreting half the story, it kind of blows your mind.” — The New York Times
The Glass House is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with a special Paper Log House installation from Shigeru Ban and other public programs through the end of December. Yale’s senior critic Christopher Hawthorne visits the New Canaan, Connecticut, campus for a preview and says... View full entry
Archinect has received first photos of Shigeru Ban Architects’ new collaborative installation project with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. A product of this semester’s Building Technology course, Shigeru... View full entry
Following our previous visit to San Francisco-based WRNS Studio, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Connecticut this week to explore the work of Newman Architects. Based in New Haven, the firm was founded in 1964 with the principle of “creating functional, nurturing environments... View full entry
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, has shared photos of its recent expansion project that was completed by EskewDumezRipple in April of 2023 at a cost of $67 million. Drawing inspiration from coastal New England granite quarries, the project added a total of 42,000 square feet via the new... View full entry
Shigeru Ban Architects have announced a special project that will help commemorate the 75th anniversary of the realization of Philip Johnson’s soon-to-be restored Brick House, the smaller outbuilding included at the site of the landmarked Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The firm made... View full entry
A treasured Frank Lloyd Wright home once resided in by the architect himself has sold for a reported $6 million in suburban New Canaan, Connecticut. The house is one of Wright’s largest designs and was purchased for $2 million below the original $8 million asking price that was published with... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Program Production Fellow at MoMA PS1, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for a Facilities Accessibility Planner at Yale University. The role, based in New Haven, CT, calls for... View full entry
A comprehensive new study linking the implementation of bird-friendly glass technology to the improvement of wildlife safety has been released by the American Bird Conservancy, offering architects what they say is a first-of-its-kind primer on an issue that still lags in the design of buildings... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to New York-based Resolution: 4 Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Connecticut this week to explore the work of Joeb Moore & Partners. From their studio in Greenwich, the firm has built a portfolio grounded in “intellect in design... View full entry
Ten years removed from the tragic shooting that claimed the lives of 27 school children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, SWA Group has today officially unveiled a permanent memorial to the victims, called The Clearing, that will seek to heal the community, survivors, and family members still... View full entry
A scholarship fund honoring the legacy of the late Kevin Roche has been established by the Connecticut Architecture Foundation (CAF) in coordination with the local firm Svigals + Partners and in time for what would have been the Pritzker winner’s 100th birthday this year. Roche’s... View full entry
“Think about it. First it was food,” she says, referring to the decades-long push for local, sustainable and ethical eating, as well as reliable sourcing and labeling. “Then came clothing. I’m proposing that shelter will be next.”
“Our velocity for good has been established day by day.”
— 1stdibs
Writer Ted Loos visited the SANAA-designed Connecticut retreat virtually for a profile of founder Sharon Prince, a former fashion retail executive who founded the 80-acre venue in 2009 around the five core principles of nature, the arts, justice, community, and faith. Prince spoke about her... View full entry
