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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has published its latest AIA Consensus Construction Forecast Panel, a metric that collects the perspectives of "leading economic forecasters" to help project potential near-term demand for construction services. AIA's latest report signals that the... View full entry
A new report from Turner Construction Company highlights an unexpected trend that has taken shape in recent months: lower construction costs for non-residential projects. According to Turner's quarterly Building Cost Index, construction costs decreased during the second quarter of 2020 by 1.01%... View full entry
Whether you are a tower crane otaku, adrenaline junky, or simply keeping up to date with David Adjaye's first NYC tower: construction crews at the 130 William site in Manhattan posted a video and some photos of the recent crane dismantling. The journey of the tower crane dismantle at... View full entry
Industries getting the largest share of net PPP dollars were health and social assistance, professional, scientific and technical services, construction and manufacturing. — CNBC
CNBC breaks down newly published data from the federal government highlighting the distribution of Paycheck Protection Program loans extended to American businesses in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously on Archinect:"Architecture Firm Owners Share Their PPP Woes" According to... View full entry
The earliest stages of construction are unfolding for what is sure to become a prominent landmark on Toronto's King Street West. As demolition of some parts of the existing buildings on the site continues, the arrival of shoring rigs is marking the start of construction for Westbank Corp and Allied Properties REIT's KING Toronto, a 16-storey mountain range-shaped luxury condominium complex from acclaimed Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group and Toronto based Diamond Schmitt Architects. — Urban Toronto
Following months of extensive demolition work, the site has been mostly cleared for what is shaping up to become a major urban redevelopment on Toronto's King Street West, reports Urban Toronto. North elevation from King Street W. All renderings via the project's website.West entrance into the... View full entry
Recognized for their distinct approach within architecture and landscape design, Snøhetta has published a new book highlighting their efforts to "recognize a potential to further challenge existing industry standards by developing new Lean key principles in the complex merge of design... 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
Six months since we last checked in, the curving steel skeleton of the Eric Owen Moss-designed Wrapper office tower is starting to take shape next to Metro's La Cienega/Jefferson Station in Baldwin Hills. — Urbanize LA
Designed by Eric Owen Moss Architects, the 17-story (W)RAPPER office tower in Los Angeles generated a stir of reactions among Archinect readers when construction started going vertical in December 2019. The free-form steel exoskeleton, which appears to be wrapping the structure and enables... View full entry
A second supplemental Quarterly Market Forecast (QMF) from PSMJ Resources conducted to gauge the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Architecture Engineering and Construction industry offers somewhat positive news for the month of May. After posting a steep, 27% decline in proposal... View full entry
Despite concerns that the upper 20 stories of the Elkus Manfredi Architects-designed 200 Amsterdam tower in New York City were inappropriately approved for construction, work on the 56-story luxury residential tower continues apace. Earlier this year, a New York State Supreme Court... View full entry
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) recently announced new measures they aim to achieve after the COVID-19 pandemic ceases. CLC has published its "Roadmap to Recovery" plan, which it intends to execute in three phases in order to help the construction industry "reinvent itself within... View full entry
A groundbreaking ceremony has just taken place for the Monument to Freedom and Unity, in central Berlin. The 50m-long (164ft) bowl will move gently up and down when enough people stand on it, and it should be completed by the end of next year.
In a guide to the design, architects Milla & Partner, who won a competition called "Citizens in Motion", say "freedom and unity aren't static conditions, they require participation and interaction".
— BBC
The monument, nicknamed "unity seesaw" by Berliners, is conceived as an enormous bowl-shaped kinetic platform that invites people to interact with each other. Image courtesy of Milla & Partner Stuttgart-based practice Milla & Partner in collaboration with choreographer Sasha Waltz created the... View full entry
Construction workers across America have suffered staggering job losses in recent weeks as the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted, and in many cases shut down, construction sites around the US. A recent report from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nearly one million... View full entry
Construction work just resumed at the Shanghai site for the new Cofco Cultural and Health Center designed by Steven Holl Architects. The 80,944-sf facility combines medical spaces, a pharmacy and nursery with cultural functions, including a library, gym, exhibition area, cafe, and community areas... View full entry
The construction industry, an engine that has helped power New York City’s tremendous growth in recent years, is slowly starting to reawaken, offering one of the first optimistic economic glimmers as the city struggles to recover.
And it also provides a glimpse of how the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the workplace in the nation’s largest city and the epicenter of the outbreak.
— The New York Times
For the New York Times, Matthew Haag reports on the recent reopening of several thousand NYC construction projects and how the ongoing COVID-19 crisis calls for new social distancing and hygiene measures on job sites: "Roughly 5,200 construction projects were operating again as of Tuesday, from... View full entry
