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1 week ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
With a background in real estate, it checks out that President Trump has thoughts on design. Since taking office in January, he has opined about shower heads, issued an executive order to promote “beautiful federal civic architecture,” planned to pave over Rose Garden, and put his own gilded stamp on the Oval Office.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
Lasker Rink, a swimming pool and skating rink, activated Central Park’s north end since 1966, but was due for an upgrade. This week the renamed and revamped recreation spot opened again to the public alongside the new Davis Center at the Harlem Meer, reconnecting the Harlem community with the park and making a trek uptown all the more worth it. Before Central Park this area was the confluence of three streams that were built over by the city’s expanding street grid.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
When the descriptor “art deco” is used in an architectural context, images of gilded entrances, decorative metal flourishes, and sleek expressions come to mind. Think of the Empire State Building or the American Radiator Building, structures in which the raucous but fashionable energy of the Roaring Twenties was solidified into built form.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
SCI-Arc has named Winka Dubbeldam as its next Director/CEO. Dubbeldam is a New York–based Dutch architect and educator. She is a founding principal of the international firm Archi-Tectonics, which was set up in 1994. In addition to practicing architecture, Dubbeldam has advanced a career in academia. Currently she is a professor and director of Advanced Research & Innovation Lab at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
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2 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
Earlier this month Austin City Council approved a code change that allows buildings up to 5 stories tall to be built with a single staircase. Among housing advocates and architects, single-stair reform has been top of mind in recent years as more cities, grappling with housing demand and affordability issues, look for ways to build more. Austin joins other U.S. cities—including Seattle, New York, and Honolulu—in amending its local building code to allow for this housing typology.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
Given Trump’s tariffs in combination with the already slowing economy, it’s no surprise the AIA’s Architecture Billing Index reported a drop in the month of March. February’s score of 45.5 decreased to 44.1 in March—any score below 50 indicates a decline in billings from the previous month. In its report, the AIA shared that, of the last 30 months, 27 have reported declining billings. During this time, architects have relied on project backlogs. For awhile, new project inquiries were on the rise.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Kristine Klein
At Spelman College, just over one third of enrolled students are pursing degrees in science and technology. The all-women HBCU in Atlanta also prides itself on its arts program. As advances in technology continue to blur distinctions between these disciplines, Spelman saw a need for a new facility where students pursuing coursework centering electronics or studying computer science could collaborate and comingle with those obtaining degrees in the performing or visual arts.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | David Heymann |Kristine Klein
Cannady Hall, Karamuk Kuo’s recently completed, largely freestanding 2-story building at Rice University in Houston, complements and extends Rice School of Architecture’s Anderson Hall. Anderson was designed by Staub and Rather in 1947 as a simple bar building to anchor the northwest corner of the university’s central academic quadrangle, planned by Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson in 1910.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Oscar Fock |Kristine Klein
Since the Trump administration rolled out its first rounds of tariffs in March, sudden announcements and equally quick rollbacks have created an unpredictable market for manufacturers and vendors of sustainable building products like lumber and aluminum. “For supply chain logistics, the quick announcements and quick rollouts are a stress factor for anyone involved in the chain,” said Rick Arrington, production planner at Texas-based custom lumber mill Delta Millworks.
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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Ian Volner |Kristine Klein
Rockefeller had more of it. Mellon did more with it. Barnes had more interesting ideas about it. But in the annals of great early 20th-century art collectors, no other plutocratic culture vulture quite measures up to Henry Clay Frick—not, at least, when it came to an eye for the good stuff.
