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The owners are a couple who loves life. They enjoy collecting and inviting friends to their home. In our design, we consider the interaction between the collections and the people and hope to create an open, free, and flowing space that allows individuals to appreciate the collec…
How Community Science Connects People, Parks, and Biodiversity Clement Lau Sun, 04/13/2025 - 11:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption Canada geese at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Community science empowers everyday people to engage directly in scientific discovery by obs…
Named after and centred around the century-old heritage-protected fig tree, Casa Figueira is a home nestled into its surroundings. Quietly secluded at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Rose Bay, the topography of the site eventuates to gun barrel views o…
Alabama: Trump Terminates Settlements for Black Communities Harmed By Raw Sewage Diana Ionescu Sun, 04/13/2025 - 09:00 Primary Image Two years after the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services negotiated a historic settlement with Alabama officials to improve wastewa…
Located on the eastern side of Grand Manan, a small Canadian island off the coast of Maine, this house is inspired by the shingled smokehouses that were once fairly pervasive, a remnant of the region's fishing heritage. The site features a spectacular, south-facing rocky cove wit…
Dear Tesla Driver: “It’s not You, It’s Him.” Christine McLaren Sun, 04/13/2025 - 07:00 Primary Image “To all the drivers who bought a Tesla before Elon Musk and his DOGE boys went on a rampage through the federal government and made a lot of people very mad, I’m sorry. It’s not y…
Uliving Campinas, The university period is a phase with unique characteristics where intense learning and transformation take place. Thus, the university housing project is an opportunity to create singular spaces, distinguishing itself from the standard of more common residentia…
A stroll around historic buildings, cemeteries and winding back streets can lift your spirits just as effectively as communing with nature, according to author Annabel Streets. Let’s put that to the test …When I arrange to meet Annabel Streets, the appropriately named author of a…
/ewood Housing takes place in the neighborhood called “l’île de la Marne” in Noisy-le-Grand, close to Paris. The location is on a long plot with a very steep slope. The built masses are located around the perimeter of the plot, at the edge of the property, creating a ring which…
Beginning this month in New York City, the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture (PRIMA) is presenting Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the Mind. The exhibition unpacks the difficulties of imagination and the effectiveness of architectural section drawings through 30 differen…
A Visual Celebration of Manhattan’s Chinatown Elder Community, Through Food Christine McLaren Sun, 04/13/2025 - 05:00 Primary Image For those craving a helping of the warm and fuzzies, Civil Beats has served up a feast: a joyful and stunning visual celebration of Manhattan’s Chin…
In Lit-et-Mixe (Landes, France), nestled in the forest just steps from the ocean, Maud Caubet has recently completed a new project for a private client on a 1,510 m² plot. Designed as an extension of an initial project completed in 2018, this 178 m² (SDP) house (130 m² built in 2…
The circular pavilion was developed by students at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences using components from the Black Pavilion at the Villa Massimo in Rome. The similarity of the components and the simplicity of the joints of the Black Pavilion allows the panels and sq…
Opening on April 13th, 2025, Expo 2025 Osaka gathers countries and organizations from around the world under the theme Designing Future Society for Our Lives. Located on the manmade island of Yumeshima, the event is expected to attract millions of visitors with a focus on innovat…
The location of the project is characteristic of the southern coast of the Regional District of Chania in Crete, the White Mountains towering the place to the north, and the Libyan Sea opening wide as if infinite to the south of it. The mountains disintegrate moving towards the s…
The former Bell factory was located at No. 525 North Xizang Road, Shanghai to south is Qiujiang Road. There are two major structures, one 9-storey and the other 7-storey, as well as a device room and a transformer substation. The client wants to renovate it into a high-end office…
A steep hill embracing the ridgeline of Cheonggyesan as a landscape, the site, shaped and accumulated over a long period, was a place to encounter many different moments in time, clear and undeniably real. The first impression of the site was the vivid, primal language of nature…
Located on the traditional lands of the Kulin people, this Fitzroy North home is nestled within a typical inner-north suburban street. Thoughtfully integrated landscaping ensures privacy in the front yard while concealing an urban oasis at the rear. buck&simple's role in transfor…
Our environment significantly impacts our quality of life, and this is even more true for the spaces where we learn. Students at the Czech-English Montessori Elementary School Duhovka have now gained an improved learning environment with the expansion of a middle school and the e…
Located in a highly developed part of East Austin, two warehouse buildings long abandoned are now a thriving morning-to-night restaurant and bar. The buildings were constructed in the early 1900s and used by Texas Company, or Texaco, to hold petroleum products delivered by railca…
Inhabiting an area of 1200 square feet, this house in Pondicherry is one of a kind. The goal was to create a house that would fulfil the client requirements of a guest house while unfolding into something that would bring the users imagination alive. House of Dancing Cactus is a…
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 Bathroom Spaces. Tip: Use t…
Architects: Matt Williams ArchitectsArea: 228 m²Year: 2023Photographs: Adam GibsonManufacturers: BrickworksArchitects: Matt Williams ArchitectsCity: Mount RumneyCountry: Australia Eyrie House residential building designed by Matt Williams Architects in Mount Rumney, Australia has…
Architects: Grupo Culata JováiArea: 135 m²Year: 2022Photographs: Federico CairoliArchitect in Charge: Emmerick Braun, Miky González MerloCollaborators: Mariángeles González, Néstor Espínola, Camila Fernández, Gabriela Benegas, Celeste Delvalle, Giuliana Echauri, Lucía PeñaStructu…
Architects: Espacio & Luz ArquitectosArea: 1076 ft²Year: 2024Photographs: JAG StudioLead Architect: Arq. Dimitri PicoProgram: Living room, Dining room, Kitchen, Attic room, Guest room and Outdoor area.City: MantaCountry: Ecuador A Shelter in the Forest residential cabin designed…
The project consisted of creating a social, cultural and sports facility in the center of Vila de Aguiar, more precisely in Rua Pedras do Lagar. The aim of this multipurpose pavilion is to provide the area with a social center, capable of bringing together local and neighboring i…
Meraki Studios is a small boutique hotel nestled in the central mountains of Crete, where ancient olive trees populate the terraced landscape. Its architectural essence lies in the simplicity, with a concrete skeleton forming the basic structure. This exposed frame acts as a thre…
When thinking about Japan, the first thing that comes to mind is the bustling streets of Tokyo, old fortified castles, and the cherry blossom-lined rivers in the urban areas. However, little is discussed regarding a real estate market problem currently ongoing in the country: Aki…
A house with gills and a jungle in the middle is built on a relatively intricate plot situated in a built-up area on the border of Bratislava. To prevent views from neighboring plots, we designed a house with an envelope that serves as a protective shell against the surroundings.…
The design started from an old house where a family of seven stood, one yet to be born. Hari & Sreelakshmi, Usha-Hari's mother, Malathi teacher, Hari's grandmother, kids sankari, paru and yet to be born sreebala. Four generations living in a 60-year-old house that had begun to sh…
Today, 5468796 Architecture received the RAIC 2025 Architectural Practice Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as part of the organization’s 2025 Annual Award program that includes the RAIC Gold Medal as well as individual awards for Advocate for Architecture, R…
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) has a plan to increase student housing across its campus by 2029. The lofty goal is already underway: last March, SOM and Mithun shared conceptual The post SOM and Mithun share more details for student dormitories underway at Unive…
The recipients of this year’s RAIC Gold Medal are the KPMB Architects co-founders Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg. Their rare dual recognition by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) comes after 37 years in practice in Toronto alongside Bruce Kuwabara, who sai…
The Central Nakhon Sawan project aimed to create a multifunctional space that blends modern design with local culture and natural beauty. Its objective was to foster community connections while offering versatile areas for a variety of activities, all within an inclusive and sust…
Construction input prices increased 0.5% in March, according to a new Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data. In addition, nonresidential construction input prices rose 0.6% last month. Both overall and…
What is usually hidden below the surface, erupts from the ground in Manhattan’s Garment District. Cold, white steel branches curve and splay in different directions, creating a tangled 22-foot installation. The post Steve Tobin’s New York Roots evokes connectivity in the Garment…
Palermo is one of the oldest, most historic neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also one of the fastest growing. There, a former parking garage was recently transformed into Class The post ODA transforms a parking garage into a mixed-use locale flush with greenery in Bu…
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
A container house on the Surf Coast in Wye River, Victoria. Designed as a weekend retreat & made from three 20ft shipping containers.
Steve Soboroff, the local developer who in January was appointed Chief Recovery Officer following the Los Angeles Fires by Mayor Karen Bass, has announced his resignation due to a disagreement with senior city leaders. The LA Times has more details surrounding the row, including…
Contrary to a hoax April Fool’s post on Instagram by Hyperallergic, the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has not been cancelled and The post U.S. Pavilion co-commissioners share visuals of pavilion design for 2025 Internati…
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls seeking the world's most innovative industrial, product, and graphic designs, excellent projects across architectural, interior, construction product, and landscap…
In a brief executive order (EO) titled “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure In Showerheads” and dated April 9, 2025, President Trump “ordered” the repeal of the 13,000-word regulation defining “showerhead” as The post Trump takes aim at the definition of a showerhead as a way t…
How to Make US Trains Faster Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/11/2025 - 08:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption An Amtrak Acela train in the Northeast Corridor. A new report by the NYU Marron Institute’s Transit Costs Project by researcher Nolan Hicks suggests a “suite of targeted improve…
More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island, in southeast Queens and in the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse.The report, writ…
Columbia’s Revitalized ‘Loop’ Is a Hub for Local Entrepreneurs Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/11/2025 - 07:00 Primary Image A commercial corridor along a state highway in Columbia, Missouri has become a model for revitalization after a targeted economic development effort that turned a no…
The council’s action, on a 14-1 vote, doesn’t authorize the massive renovation, but it shows that the council is firmly behind the effort to overhaul the downtown structure, despite a city budget shortfall for next year that is projected to be nearly $1 billion.The agreement by t…
In the fall of 2021, a group of exhausted architects at a prominent New York City firm decided they had finally had enough. For years, they had tolerated the profession’s unwritten contract – low pay, long hours, and the so-called “passion tax” of creative labor – in exchange for…
The University of Toronto has begun construction on what is set to become Canada’s tallest academic timber building. Rising 14 stories, the Academic Wood Tower seeks to become a landmark project for sustainable architecture in the country, integrating mass timber and steel hybrid…
“Architecture is frozen music,” a quotation attributed to Goethe, might be one of the profession’s worst cliches. However, at a new school in Upper Manhattan, the analogy applies literally. Building The post GLUCK+ designs sheet-music inspired facade for WHIN Music Community Char…
Architects: NidusArea: 100 m²Year: 2024Photographs: Volker ConradusManufacturers: Dornbracht, FSB Franz Schneider Brakel, Aldoo Jacober for Bazzani, LUMİNA, Mawa Design, Nidus Objects, WinckelmansLead Architects: Annelen Schmidt-Vollenbroich, Ana VollenbroichProducts Used in This…
Architects: ZIStudioArea: 704 m²Year: 2022Photographs: Khatere EshqiManufacturers: Altonray, KWC, Knauf, choob-sang, vistabestLead Architects: Nasrin Nabi, Shohreh ArabzadeStructure Engineer: Ali BahriMEP & HVAC Consultant: Ali AkhoundiElectrical Engineer: Mohadese ZaboliCity: Ya…
Architects: Fahed+ArchitectsArea: 800 m²Year: 2022Photographs: Nayan Krishna, Ram NareshLead Architect: Fahed MajeedCity: KochiCountry: India TAPAS – The Art of Mindful Living residential building designed by Fahed + Architects in Kochi, India introduces a private apartment proje…
The highly sought-after commission to design the official Qatari Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia has been granted to rising Paris-based Lebanese star Lina Ghotmeh. The 2023 Serpentine Pavilion designer and recently announced British Museum Western Range galleries expansion wil…
If you’re in the New York City area on Friday, May 9th, be sure not to miss the premiere of Yael Melamede‘s new documentary ADA: My Mother The Architect depicting the life of the late Ada Karmi-Melamede at the Angelika Film Center. Karmi-Melamede’s work in Israel and New York, w…
Princeton University president Christopher L. Eisgruber has earned praise over his stance on academic freedom and protecting funding opportunities from the political pressures now being placed on universities by the Trump Administration. Facing Title VI lawsuits and the loss of…
The latest edition of our curated jobs roundup from the Archinect Job board features 20 architecture and design firms in the San Francisco Bay Area currently hiring. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series an…
The two-tower CityWave scheme from BIG has topped out near central Milan, completing the final two pieces of a larger district-sized CityLife puzzle that features designs from Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Arata Isozaki. BIG’s contribution—designed with the local…
The height of destination hospitality used to be a beautiful landscape—say, the dappled sunlight across the rolling hills of Napa Valley or Provence or Paarl, South Africa—viewed from a picturesque The post A new approach to agritourism has architects integrating terrain and sust…
The Italian city has a reputation for being gray, but its architecture is far from dull.
When Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) unveiled its expansion for The Broad last year, it continued the “veil and vault” concept the New York office introduced to the site in The post The Broad expansion by Diller Scofidio + Renfro breaks ground in Los Angeles appeared first on The…
The USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan has been completed. The project was delivered by a team consisting of New Orleans-based architecture studio Trahan Architects, entertainment agency BRC Imagination Arts, and design-build contractors Alchemy and ES Global. Image © Huft…
While the Trump administration rolls back environmental, efficiency, and other climate policies, many forces continue to push the architecture, engineering, and construction industry toward sustainable building practices. These forces range The post Trump administration climate p…
The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) for March has shown a sharp 6.9% decline to 205.6. Over the month, commercial planning declined 7.8% and institutional planning fell by 5.0%. Weaker planning activity for warehouses, data centers, and retail projects was said to drive this month’s…
Here’s a preview of an upcoming presentation at the Venice Architecture Biennale designed by Carlo Ratti Associati in collaboration with the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Prada Group. The SEA BEYOND Ocean Literacy Centre is to be located on San Servo…
Japan’s aging rail infrastructure is turning to a new era backed by solutions leveraging the latest in construction technology, prefabrication methods, and robotics. The New York Times has the latest on a 3D printing project for the Japan Railway’s Hatsushima Station in Wakayama…
World Play Day is June 11. To commemorate, the Serpentine Galleries and LEGO Group are working with Archigram’s Peter Cook to deliver a Play Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens. Bettina The post Peter Cook unveils Play Pavilion for Serpentine South in London’s Kensington Gard…
Construction technology company Procore has released a report detailing the trends it expects to shape the construction industry over the next decade. Drawing on a survey of more than 1,200 construction decision-makers across eight countries, alongside expert analysis, the Future…
Nova Ponente, a small town in the province of Bolzano, sits nestled among the mountains at an altitude of 1,300 metres above sea level. Home to around 4,000 people, it is also where our client, the protagonist of this story, was born and raised—at BS Hof, the family farmstead, su…
British artist and designer Es Devlin has revealed Library of Light, an installation set within Milan’s historic Pinacoteca di Brera for the 2025 Salone del Mobile. Conceived as an architectural and sculptural ode to light and knowledge, the installation transforms the 17th-centu…
Bowie State University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Center equips Maryland’s oldest HBCU with learning environments and courses of study that provide arts and humanities students with a technologically advanced learning experience. The design and programming of the Center is a testa…
HWKN has announced the completion of the third and final tower of Journal Squared, a major residential development in Jersey City, New Jersey. The 59-story tower comprises 598 rental residences and nearly 18,000 square feet of amenity space. Image credit: Colin MillerImage credit…
Markets are surging today after suffering major losses in reaction to the Trump Administration’s decision to pause planned tariffs above 10% on all countries except China for 90 days. As a result, many suppliers for products used by those in the AEC and homebuilding industries h…
The official groundbreaking ceremony for Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new 55,000-square-foot building expansion of The Broad in Downtown L.A. was held earlier this afternoon with Elizabeth Diller and other stakeholders on hand to witness the start of the next chapter in the institu…
Henning Larsen is participating in this year’s Milan Design Week with a showcase of the potential for mycelium and other alternative biogenic building materials to support a new aesthetics of design for architects, framed within the context of a circular economy. 'Growing Matter(…
A monthly check-in on the ConstructionConnect Project Stress Index (PSI) composites from March indicates a slight (1.1%) increase in the number of nonresidential construction projects either paused, delayed, or abandoned across the country. This rise was driven primarily by a 9.5…
An update from the AIA Los Angeles chapter has shed light on a recent L.A. City Council directive for the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS), LAFD, and LACP to publish proposals for code modification that would allow single-stair multifamily buildings of up to…
Mushroom library, Multidimensional Context: A Hidden Homeland – Tucked into the folds of the Wuliang Mountains, Yanzitou Village—a secluded hamlet inhabited by six ethnic groups (Han, Yi, Bai, Dai, Li, and Hani)—faces the paradox of rural decline amidst its pristine landscape. Wi…
A machine for storytelling: MVRDV’s Portlantis offers visitors a new perspective on the Port of Rotterdam. For centuries, the city of Rotterdam and its port have grown together in a symbiotic relationship. In the 21st century, the Port is embarking on one of the most significant…
In the aftermath of the destructive wildfires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) has announced the establishment of its Resilient Futures Task Force, an initiative aimed at assisting affected communities with recovery an…
Following our previous look at an opening for an Architectural Project Manager at Bevyhouse, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Director of Residential Capital Planning, Design and Construction at the Univ…
Architects: One Plus PartnershipArea: 6006 m²Year: 2024Photographs: Jonathan LeijonhufvudLead Architects: Ajax Law, Virginia LungDesign Team: ONE PLUS PARTNERSHIPClients: HAINAN XIN TIAN DI INSUN FILM LIMITED COMPANYCity: HaikouCountry: China Haikou GAOXINGLI Insun Cinema enterta…
Architects: Vir.Mueller ArchitectsArea: 3440 m²Year: 2023Photographs: Andre J Fanthome, Suryan // DangStructural Engineers: Skeleton Consultants Pvt. Ltd.MEP Engineers: Prolific ConsultantsPartners in Charge: Vir.Mueller Architects, Christine Mueller, Pankaj Vir GuptaProject Team…
Architects: 3dor ConceptsArea: 270 m²Year: 2022Photography: Running StudiosManufacturers: Hybec, Jaquar, YaleLead Architects: Ahmad Thaneem Abdul Majeed, Muhammed Jiyad, Muhammed NaseemStructural Engineer: DeframezContractor: CV ASSOCIATESSite Supervision: Rahul VenugopalDetailed…
Millennium-era buildings – including Sheffield’s ‘kettle building’ – among a number of landmarks facing demolitionWhat happened to UK’s millennium projects?Sheffielders describe it as “alien-shaped” and like a “kettle” but it seems the former National Centre for Popular Music may…
A woman saved a decrepit building in the ’70s and turned it into, among other things, an art museum, an opera house and a jazz club. It is about to be listed for sale.
Peter Cook has been attached to a special site-specific pavilion commissioned by the LEGO Group on the grounds of the Serpentine Gallery that will open this summer to coincide with the official celebration of World Play Day in London. His upcoming Play Pavilion design, first ann…
We were approached by a client about modernizing their inherited 1973 house in Valderøy, Norway. While the house lacked historical significance, we advised against demolition, emphasizing the importance of utilizing existing structures for climate goals. Rehabilitation also prese…
The new Center for Innovation and Active Citizenship at the Frederick Gunn School unites a range of learning environments together in one integrated building. The school was founded in 1850 by Frederick William Gunn, who was an educator, abolitionist, and advocate for the outdoor…
My father, Lewis Braithwaite, who has died aged 87, was influential in the 1970s and 80s in town planning, saving historic buildings and street patterns, and in considering canals as urban assets. Many of his ideas are taken for granted now, but were radical at the time.Lewis wro…
Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it’s amazingly unsmelly…“Who’d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?” asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner…
This year, Convey, an exhibition of products by emerging companies, will drop the items into commercial spaces where fairgoers rarely set foot.
Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.
Its inspiration was Sydney Opera House and its paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floatersIt is not often that the arts section of a newspaper finds itself co…
My friend John McNeill, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was one of the UK’s leading scholars of romanesque architecture and sculpture. He published articles on romanesque architecture from across Europe, especially monastic buildings, with an interest in elements ofte…
A private company, Brightline, hopes to open the first high-speed rail line in the United States. Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, looks at Brightline’s passenger service in Florida and the company’s planned high-speed line connecting Los Angeles…
A couple and their architect friend built a family home that celebrates hyperlocal building materials.
A chubby, rhubarb and custard-coloured tower bedecked with anteaters and moles make a fun neighbour to the city’s dreaming spires. It’s left some locals lost for wordsA carved stone pangolin clings to the top of the tower, its scaly tail curled into the crevice of a cornice, as i…
Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by AlessiThis is the final monthly design news round-up, so we’ve made it a bumper edition. As well as previewing some shows that will be this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, there’…
Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-risesFor almost 200 years, the bell tolled to mark the start and end of the working day at one of the UK’s most remarkable industrial sites – but it vanished when the b…