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1 month ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Hope Daley |Anastasia Tokmakova
The Trump Administration’s plans for downsizing government have now turned to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), who briefly listed 443 properties in its portfolio as being targeted for a potential sale via a press release Tuesday. The list was later amended to include 320 before...
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2 months ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Antonio Pacheco |Katherine Guimapang |Hope Daley
His remarks never sounded capricious; nor did they seem unwelcome. This is the core of the business: people draw ten versions of a stairway, or a lobby, and agree to develop the best one, and then someone—possibly Lord Foster—starts to wonder about an eleventh version. Foster is very good at designing. But he’s also very good at making others not stop designing.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Alexander Walter |Hope Daley |Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
In 2021, the Google Research Africa team launched Open Buildings, an open-source dataset of building footprints across the Global South produced using AI and high-resolution satellite imagery. The team had a simple vision: to fill a major gap in data for population and density in the developing world. Now in its third version, their dataset contains polygons for 1.8 billion buildings over an area of 58 million km² in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Hope Daley
The second-ever built Eileen Gray home design from 1934 has hit the local real estate market in France’s Côte d'Azur region for €3.5 million ($3.87 million USD). The home is not far away from Gray’s earlier historic E-1027 villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martim and boasts 8 bedrooms...
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Hope Daley
An update has been provided for the Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)-led Center for Collaborative Arts & Technology (CCAT) design at the University of New Mexico’s main Albuquerque campus. The $65 million project is 60,000 square feet in total, establishing a new gateway to campus at...
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Sean Joyner |Antonio Pacheco |Hope Daley
According to Kyle Bergman, the founder and director of the Architecture and Design Film Festival, “Kids who grow up with architects as parents mostly fall into two groups. Some want to become architects and some want to run away, to get as far away from architecture as possible. But then there’s this middle ground, people who are intrigued by what their parents do but want to do their own thing.”That third group is where the future documentarians come from, Bergman said.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Nathaniel Bahadursingh |Justine Testado |Hope Daley |Julia Ingalls
The Crow Museum of Asian Art is debuting its second location within the Morphosis-designed Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum Arts and Performance Complex at the University of Texas at Dallas. A ribbon-cutting dedication for the Museum and the groundbreaking ceremony for Phase II of the...
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Hope Daley
A brand new apprenticeship opportunity will grant prospective architects in the UK the chance to learn professional model-making skills in an initiative chaired by Foster + Partners in collaboration with a group of other British universities and design firms. The three-year Trailblazer Group...
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Hope Daley
Most often, homes with little or no air conditioning are occupied by low-income residents – often renters — and people of color, a 2022 Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metro areas found. That leaves them vulnerable as climate change makes heatwaves more frequent, more intense and longer lasting. Heat stress now kills more people globally each year than any other weather-related cause, according to the World Health Organization — and many of these deaths occur indoors.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |MacKenzie Goldberg |Mackenzie Goldberg |Hope Daley |Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
The Judd Foundation has announced progress on restoring Donald Judd's fire-damaged Architecture Office project in Marfa, Texas: The restoration will now make the building ready for public use by September 20, 2025. It continues the pre-fire work that began in 2019. The final construction phase...
