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APRIL 18, 2024

Henning Larsen has debuted its plans for the Etobicoke Civic Centre (ECC) in Toronto, a mixed-use design within the city’s redeveloped Etobicoke Civic Centre Precinct that contains government offices and council chambers, child care center, library, public health clinic, recreation centre, and retail spaces aside a new 47,000-square-foot public square.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs features 16 architecture and design firms in the greater Los Angeles area currently hiring for Project Managers and Project Architects. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series and our Archinect Tips collection. Studio of Relativity, Inc. dba Relativity Architects seeks a Project Architect/Senior Project Architect and a Senior Project Manager in Los Angeles P

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APRIL 18, 2024

David Lynch is participating in this year's Salone del Mobile with an installation titled ‘Interiors by David Lynch. Thinking Room’ he designed to offer visitors of the fair a respite while serving tribute to the lurid scenography fans of his classic films Blue Velvet and Lost Highway will find pleasingly familiar. The centerpiece of the installation is an oversized wooden armchair, designed by Lynch himself, with intricate brass tubes positioned overhead, creating a striking visual

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APRIL 18, 2024

MAD Architects has completed its latest installation for Milan Design Week. Titled ‘Amazing Walk.’ the project marks the seventh time MAD has participated in the event. Image credit: Moreno Maggi Image credit: Moreno Maggi Set within the Cortile della Farmacia courtyard at the University of Milan , the ‘Amazing Walk’ seeks to “blur the boundary between built and natural environments in a surreal way.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc , an Archinect Partner School SCI-Arc , an Archinect Partner School , is hosting its annual Spring Show exhibition later this month that will feature the work of undergraduate and graduate students from all school programs. The show takes place on its LA Arts District campus, beginning with the opening reception at 6 PM on Saturday, April 27th.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Japanese practice Makoto Yamaguchi Design has completed a headquarters for a game production company in Tokyo inspired by video game elements. Facing the site of an elevated railway where trains pass on average every 1.5 minutes in both directions, the scheme is defined by slanted walls in response to environmental elements such as light, wind, and sound.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Conceived by smart growth proponents as a viable solution to Los Angeles' tight housing market, the City of Los Angeles adopted the Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance in 2005. The ordinance aimed to encourage the construction of smaller, more affordable infill housing to target first-time home buyers in an increasingly unaffordable market; simultaneously increasing density while maintaining the residential scale of Los Angeles neighborhoods Located just south of LA’s Beachwood Canyon, our Can

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APRIL 17, 2024

As one of the fastest growing cities in the country, Raleigh is experiencing the need for housing densification and is fostering new centers for community growth. Located just down the street from Downtown in a primarily single-residence neighborhood, LOHA’s South E8 brings eight units to a lot that previously had one. Retaining the visual scale of its context, South E8 employs a distinctive massing strategy and unique floorplan to integrate living quarters with roof decks and outdoor spac

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APRIL 17, 2024

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Technical Architect - US Government Work at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate at the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The role, based in New York City, calls for an individual from an architectural or real estate background to support the MTA’s real estate operati

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APRIL 17, 2024

SCI-Arc opened a new exhibition last Friday, curated by Class of 1995 M.Arch graduate Gordon Kipping , that documents the development of mass timber within contemporary architecture. Inspired by Le Corbusier ’s 1914–15 Dom-Ino House prototype, Maison de Cartes presents examples both in the form of physical models and via a special augmented reality (AR) application to deliver a narrative about timber's ability and potential to meet the challenge of climate change in different typolog

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APRIL 17, 2024

Archinect is remembering the life and legacy of Ball State University architecture professor Janice Shimizu, who has passed away at the age of 54. Janice won many hearts and minds throughout an estimable career in academia and the professional realm, sentiments that were repeated by the many people with whom she became familiar through her involvement in the Japanese-Canadian community in and around her native Manitoba.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Archinect has received first photos of Shigeru Ban Architects ’ new collaborative installation project with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. A product of this semester’s Building Technology course, Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House honors the 75th anniversary of one of America’s foremost examples of modernism with a special nine-month run that began this week, April 15th, and will run until Decem

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MARCH 11, 2024

Our client (a well-traveled international couple with 3 young children) came to us with visions of a comfortable abode for the grandparents visiting from overseas, which in a few years would morph into a teenager hangout, and eventually a retirement retreat for themselves. Our goal is to fullfill these multi-generational functional requirements and support our client's wish to have an elevated experience.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Buildner just shared the results of its popular The Architect’s Chair contest. The competition challenged architects and designers to “distill their design approach into its core components and represent their unique style in a single piece of furniture — the architect's chair.” Submissions were chosen based on their functionality and comfort, aesthetics and signature style, materiality, craftsmanship and construction, and versatility.

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MARCH 11, 2024

The Moody Nolan -designed Obama Presidential Center Programs & Athletics Center project in Chicago’s Jackson Park has been scheduled to break ground later this month. Project updates were reported late last week by the Chicago Sun-Times on the occasion of former President Obama's visit to McCormick Place to see a half-scale mockup of the 88-foot "Power of Words" video installation, the largest of 50 that will grace the Obama Presidential Center when it opens at a recently revised date

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MARCH 11, 2024

Germany’s Vitra Design Museum is to open an exhibition on the architectural evolution of the energy sector. Titled Transform! Designing the Future of Energy and open from March 23rd through September 1st, the exhibition will explore design across a range of scales, from everyday products that use renewable energy to solar houses, wind power stations, and smart mobility systems.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Following last week’s visit to New York-based Bates Masi + Architects , we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Philadelphia this week to explore the work of KieranTimberlake. Founded in 1984, the firm describes its approach to architecture as an “alchemy of art, science, analysis, and intuition.” As we have previously reported, the firm’s impact on the built environment was honored in 2021 with their receipt of the 35th Louis I.

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MARCH 1, 2024

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Highlighted below are four calls seeking RFQs for the redesign of Columbus, Indiana's Downtown Entrance Plaza, large-scale art installations to be built on the same grounds as the 1969 Woodstock festival, exceptional architectural projects across various categories, and innovative concepts for the hotel and tourism industries.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Weiss/Manfredi has been named as the winner of the 37th Louis I. Kahn Award. The New York-based studio was formed by husband and wife duo Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi in 1989 and has since impacted the profession through an award-winning portfolio of cultural, higher-ed, urban design, and institutional projects that have garnered the New York AIA Gold Medal, a 2018 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and several other leading honors.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Shortlisted finalists for the 2024 edition of the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice and Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture have been announced along with the winner of the Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture by the W Awards as part of its annual program honoring the achievements of women in the field of architecture and design.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The nearly two-year-old Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity has shared news of its arrival in a new permanent home in the San Francisco Bay Area that will consolidate its archival collection under one roof for the first time. The new location helps the Institute engage with the collection, which had until now been warehoused at the Eames Office global headquarters in Venice, California.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our design philosophy is constructed upon the belief that a workspace is more than just a space for work; it’s a living space. So, the project mission is broader than creating “productive” spaces. We want our design to facilitate human wellbeing. In the design exploratory phase, we identified states our design should ignite: openness toward each other, a sense of belonging, calm, safety, motivation to learn and discover and empowerment.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Winners of the 2024 Créateurs Design Awards were announced over the weekend at an intimate event held at the Shangri-La in Paris. A winner in each of the 14 separate categories was selected to join the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Gaetano Pesce and Le Prix Charlotte Perriand recipient Frida Escobedo as part of the ceremony.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

National Museums Liverpool (NML) has named Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios as the replacement for Adjaye Associates on the design team for the new International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum. The opportunity to replace Adjaye on the project came after the museum cut ties with his firm last summer following the revelation of sexual misconduct allegations in the Financial Times that preceded a string of high-profile project cancellations in the United States , the UK, and Saudi Arabia.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

A group of six architects and designers was announced today for inclusion in the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship cohort for 2024. Each will receive a $50,000 cash grant to be used at their discretion in recognition of their socially engaged and community-driven pursuits. This year's program was noted for its interdisciplinary approach, with many artists reaching outside their field to affect change in other areas, such as law, policy, and healthcare, that are equally vital to buildi

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and lighting design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs : This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in New York City , Chicago , Austin , and San Francisco. For even more opportunities, visit Archinect Jobs and peruse our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has shared its Spring ‘24 public lecture schedule as part of our Get Lectured rundown of speaking events on campus this semester. The lectures begin on Friday, January 26 , with the Fitzgibbon Charrette Kickoff Lecture from FreelandBuck co-founders Brennan Buck and David Freeland.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Zaha Hadid Architects has released details of a second collaborative effort with Holcim on a 3D printed bridge concept that was first debuted as part of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. The new ten-ton Phoenix design offers an evolution of the innovations seen in the previous Striatus bridge , the original blocks of which the team was able to recycle in the second iteration.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

New research produced by the University of Cambridge has identified key strategies to better effect a widespread implementation of inclusive design beyond its current status as a nascent set of concepts that have yet to be fully adopted by practitioners in almost every sector. The paper’s lead investigators, Dr. Matteo Zallio and Professor P John Clarkson, surveyed a total of 114 different practitioners of architecture to produce an assessment of the current perceptions and challenges inhe

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JANUARY 5, 2024

In the mid 17th century early settlers of Montauk, New York established what is now the oldest working cattle ranch in America. Other ranches later emerged nearby and many remain but some have succumbed to residential subdivision. Their remnants survive today in the form of horse stables, barns, and workers’ cottages. One such cottage, a late addition built in the mid 20th century, sat near the top of a hill with almost 360º views of the nearby lake, ocean, sound, and nature preserves

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Tokyo -based Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture has completed a residential scheme in the western part of the Japanese capital defined by an exposed concrete structure on a constrained site. According to the designers, the three-unit scheme “emphasizes maximal utilization of natural energy and pursues comfortable livability.” Image credit: BAUHAUS NEO Image credit: BAUHAUS NEO Designed in collaboration with Kiz Architects and Hidetaka Gonai/Escenario, and completed in the winter of 2022, th

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JANUARY 5, 2024

18-20 Greycoat Place is a new seven-storey building in the heart of Victoria, at the intersection of Greycoat Place, Greencoat Place and Rochester Row. Comprising four floors of workspace with duplex apartments on the upper floors, the ground floor is animated on all three sides with an office reception and retail use. The development follows the curved line of the street and draws on the notable brick buildings and prevalent mansion block vernacular of the area, with a material palette of red s

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Toronto-based Studio AC has offered a look inside their “unapologetically” residential scheme in the Canadian city. The three-story home reads as a series of stacked boxes from the outside with echoes of traditional residential forms. Image credit: Doublespace Photography Image credit: Doublespace Photography At the base of the scheme, an otherwise contemporary rectilinear massing holds a gable-shaped opening while, above, the scheme is crowned by a gabled roof form.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following last week’s visit to Richmond-based 3North , we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York City this week to explore the work of JG Neukomm Architecture. Founded in 2017 by Jean-Gabriel Neukomm, the firm operates on the premise that “great architecture requires a bold vision for collaboration, a commitment to honor the histories of site and community, and an embrace of intelligent, lasting design.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Snøhetta has unveiled its design for an opera house in Diriyah, on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Inspired by the surrounding desert landscape, local cultural heritage, and Najdi building traditions, the Royal Diriyah Opera House forms part of a wider master plan to redevelop the historic area. Image credit: Binyan Both the form and materiality of the opera house respond to a vernacular style in the area known as Najdi, which historically saw mud-brick structures closely clustered

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The LA Times recently debuted a useful map of seismic retrofit projects in major sections of the city months after official updates to the building code were enacted to address risks posed to soft-story and non-ductile concrete structures before 2033. The map was made by surveying available records from Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Pasadena.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Diamond Schmitt Architects has designed a new campus expansion plan for McGill University in unison with LemayMichaud that will help advance the study of earth systems and environmental health while restoring several historic buildings and the university’s connection to Mount Royal Park. One of Canada’s premiere research institutions is about to undergo a transformation of “generational importance,” according to the firms.

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