The renovation is the brainchild of former Boston mayor (and current Secretary of Labor) Marty Walsh, who promised an 18–24-month construction period when the project was announced in 2019. The barren 7-acre plaza has long been an object of derision in the city after the McKinnell &... View full entry

Researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab have unveiled their latest project, which seeks to understand human mobility in cities. Titled Wanderlust, the project uses large-scale cellphone data to understand the movement of people in the metro areas of Boston, Abidjan, Braga, Lisbon, Porto, Dakar... View full entry

Curtain wall construction has begun on what will become the world’s largest passive house office building, marking an important milestone in the drive to give Boston an iconic and environmentally friendly new skyscraper that could help the city meet its carbon-free mandate by midcentury. ... View full entry

The Design Museum has launched a new virtual exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. to highlight the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field. We Design tells stories about designers of different ages, genders, backgrounds, races, ethnicities, sexual... View full entry

The new 265,000 square-foot Lowell Justice Center courthouse in Massachusetts designed by Finegold Alexander Architects has opened to the public. The $146 million facility houses Superior, District, Housing, Juvenile, Probate, and Family Court facilities, including 17 courtrooms... View full entry

Michael McKinnell, a co-designer of Boston's love-it-or-hate-it Brutalist City Hall, has passed away from pneumonia following a positive diagnosis for COVID-19. McKinnell was born in 1935 in Manchester, England and grew up during World War II. He earned a bachelor’s degree in... View full entry

Hardly any other American city is as closely associated with higher education as Boston, with some of its universities making frequent appearances in Archinect's academia-related news coverage. As part of our month-long editorial Spotlight on Boston, why not take a look at ten standout... View full entry

The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is holding a series of webinars over the coming weeks aimed at sharing tips and best practices for remote work that architects can use in their own practices as firms respond to the COVID-19 crisis.  The first installment in the series covers general... View full entry

As part of Archinect's month-long Spotlight on Boston, we have selected ten of our favorite residential architecture projects in the greater Boston area uploaded to Firm profiles of practices based in the city. Next week, we will follow up with a look at Boston's outstanding academic and workplace... View full entry

In light of the planned redevelopment of the Boston Government Service Center (BGSC), designed by Modernist architect Paul Rudolph in 1962, the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation has issued a pointed letter advocating for "the preservation of the Boston Government Service Center, as a part of the... View full entry

Historic New England, one of one of the oldest and largest regional architectural heritage organizations in the United States, has announced that the archives of Boston-based architecture firm Royal Barry Wills Associates will be made available to the public for the first time. Founded... View full entry

The latest annual Global Traffic Scorecard published by transportation analytics company INRIX calculated that the average Boston commuter lost 149 hours — that's more than six days — per year due to traffic congestion, amounting to $2,205 per driver in time lost. Boston ranked as the... View full entry

Following the successful passage of a ballot initiative on Super Tuesday, the town of Newton, Massachusetts is moving forward with a proposed 23-acre community development plan that could bring up to 800 new housing units to the site of a former strip mall.  View of the proposed Northland... View full entry

Boston University's new Center for Computing and Data Sciences building is set to be the largest carbon-neutral building in Boston when completed. The 19-story structure will house the university's mathematics, statistics, and computer science departments.  Previously covered on Archinect... View full entry

For the month of March, Archinect is focusing its Spotlight on Boston, the largest city in Massachusetts and the northernmost node of America's Northeast megalopolis.  The focus on Boston follows our recent Spotlight on Miami theme from the month of February.  Boston, of course, has a... View full entry