Archinect

MARCH 4, 2025

As Archinect reported this morning , Chengdu architect Liu Jiakun has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize , one of the architecture world's most prestigious awards. Liu has built a career spanning over four decades, developing projects that blend modernity with traditional Chinese architectural elements. Rooted in cultural, historical, and social considerations, the architect's work often seeks to create spaces that serve and uplift communities.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 4, 2025

Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Arts. Image Arch-Exist Liu Jiakun, the 2025 Pritzker Prize winner, has spent decades redefining Chinese architecture by combining utopia with function and social engagement with personal memory. His buildings are reflections of the everyday lives of ordinary people, crafted with an understanding of place, culture, and materiality.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Each year, Archisource celebrates the best worldwide talent with its Drawing of the Year Awards. The competition brings together artists creating visual representations of architecture , design, and the built environment. As the competition opens for its sixth iteration, the expert judging panel prepares to review entries across six categoriesDigital Drafting, Digital media, Hand Drawn, Mixed Media, Visualization, and Drawing of the Yearand additional specialized commendations.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2025

Italian automobile brand Maserati has set a new land speed record with its driverless MC20 Coupe, which reached 197.7 miles per hour without a driver at the helm during a racing event at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The self-driving Maserati set the record as part of last week's The Indy Autonomous Challenge , billed as the world's only active autonomous racing car event, at the Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) in NASA 's Kennedy Space Center.

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Archinect

MARCH 5, 2025

BIG ’s forthcoming design for a new international airport that will serve Bhutan’s population as part of the 386-square-mile Mindfulness City plan that was announced in December of 2023. Image courtesy BIG The Gelephu International Airport project covers just under 732,000 square feet and will service 1.3 million passengers by 2040 and up to 5.5 million by the year 2065, according to the firm.

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designboom

MARCH 5, 2025

bjarke ingels will work with local artists for intricate carvings across the timber airport, inspired by bhutan's traditional architecture. The post bjarke ingels group plans ornamental airport in bhutan with intricate woodcarvings appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2025

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun has been named the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that "celebrate the everyday lives of people". Liu is the 54th laureate of the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize , which is considered the most significant award in international architecture. This year's jury, chaired by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena , selected Liu in recognition of how he has placed people and communities at the forefront throughout his four-decade career.

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Archinect

MARCH 4, 2025

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun, founder of Jiakun Architects , has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Prize. Born in Chengdu in 1956, Liu has built a career spanning over four decades, developing projects that blend modernity with traditional Chinese architectural elements. Rooted in cultural, historical, and social considerations, the architect's work often seeks to create spaces that serve and uplift communities.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 4, 2025

Liu Jiakun. Image Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize Chinese architect and educator Liu Jiakun has been announced as the laureate of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize , the highest honor in the architecture field. This prestigious award recognizes Jiakun, founder of Jiakun Architects (established 1999), for his ability to blend traditional Chinese elements with contemporary design and for his commitment to social equity in the built environment.

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Architizer

MARCH 5, 2025

The countdown to 13th Annual A+Awards winners' announcement has begun! Stay updated by subscribing to Architizer's Awards Newsletter. It’s safe to say that the days when architects relied solely on hand-drawn plans and traditional tools to bring their visions to life are long gone. Nowadays, they use a mix of advanced techniques, from parametric modeling to robotic fabrication.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

One hundred years ago this April, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Dcoratifs introduced art deco to the world. To kick off our Art Deco Centenary series, Kathleen Murphy Skolnik gives an overview of the style. Art deco, the name now given to the modern, exuberant decorative movement of the 1920s and '30s, is a term that defies definition. Although commonly associated with such features as stylisation, verticality, geometric forms and sunburst, fountain and floral motifs, its visual manifes

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2025

Switzerland-based Davide Macullo Architects has unveiled its design for a nature-inspired residential tower on the Albanian coast. Named ‘The Leaves,’ the scheme is conceived as an extension of the landscape, responding to the contours of the terrain. Image credit: Davide Macullo Architects Image credit: Davide Macullo Architects The project consists of two interconnected volumes that rotate to maximize light reflection and scenic views.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 6, 2025

Portrait of Ricardo Scofidio. Image via Diller Scofidio + Renfro Ricardo Scofidio , a distinguished figure in the world of architecture, passed away on March 6, 2025 , at the age of 89. Born in New York City in 1935, Scofidio co-founded the influential architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) with his partner Elizabeth Diller in 1979. Together, they brought to the profession a conceptual art sensibility, influencing the design of globally recognized cultural landmarks and public spaces.

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Architizer

MARCH 4, 2025

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Tiny living is the new hot trend in the real estate market. Even though it started primarily as a necessity due to the imminent rise of residential prices, living within a smaller footprint has become a rather popular choice, especially for younger generations.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2025

Chinese technology brand Lenovo has revealed a prototype of what it's calling the "world's first ultraslim solar-powered PC", which looks like a regular laptop but runs on energy from the sun. On show now at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual technology trade show in Barcelona, Lenovo 's concept Yoga Solar PC swaps out the laptop's usual top panel for edge-to-edge solar cells.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2025

DS+R co-founding principal Ricardo Scofidio passed away yesterday at the age of 89, leaving behind many important buildings and other great architectural designs that will now be reexamined in the context of their critical success and relationship to contemporary architectural discourse. As a body of work, they represent what has been labeled as a "veritable reinvention of New York’s public spaces, cultural institutions and educational facilities" by his hometown newspaper.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 5, 2025

Gelephu Airport. Image BIG BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) has unveiled plans for Bhutan's Gelephu International Airport , a project that aims to combine traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design. As the country's second international airport, it is a key component of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) masterplan, designed to accommodate future growth while reflecting Bhutan's cultural and environmental values.

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designboom

MARCH 1, 2025

as milan prepares for the 2026 winter olympics, it is being reshaped with projects by kengo kuma, BIG, stefano boeri, and chipperfield. The post designing for 2026: how milans architecture is evolving ahead of the winter olympics appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has revealed its design for Fan d'Issy, a geometric building with angular, fan-like facades that will be located in the Paris commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Designed in collaboration with property developer La Compagnie de Phalsbourg , the building will contain offices , a hotel , retail space , a sports hall and housing , a third of which will be social housing.

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Archinect

MARCH 3, 2025

The latest Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau has indicated a slight (0.1%) increase in nonresidential construction spending nationwide for the month of January. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled just under $1.25 trillion. Spending was up on a monthly basis in 12 of the 16 nonresidential subcategories.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 2, 2025

Take Photo. Image Take Photo via Shutterstock Prefabrication is one of the most transformative innovations in architecture and construction, redefining how buildings are designed, manufactured, and assembled. While not a new concept, its application has evolved to offer a broader range of advantages. Traditionally valued for its precision and quality , prefabrication is now equally recognized for its cost and time efficiencies , particularly in leveraging regional differences in labor and produ

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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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designboom

MARCH 3, 2025

MAD architects' lucas museum, now opening in 2026, will see a leadership change as george lucas will lead content direction. The post lucas museum shifts opening to 2026 with george lucas leading curatorial vision appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2025

Architecture studio Atelier Apeiron has completed the Hengqin Culture and Art Complex in Zhuhai, China. The 142,560-square-metre building in China's southern city of Zhuhai contains a library, theatre and museum , all topped with a terraced roof garden. Atelier Apeiron designed the Hengqin Culture and Art Complex in Zhuhai Located next to a green park surrounded by residential towers,the building was designed to integrate three organisations into a single complex.

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Archinect

MARCH 3, 2025

The Brutalist was among the biggest winners at the 2025 Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. The film, which revolves around fictional architect László Tóth, won three awards after being nominated in ten categories. Adrien Brody, who played Tóth in the film, took home the coveted best actor award. Back in December, Archinect published a review of the film , which included a conversation with Brody in which the actor reflected on his own personal resonance with the

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ArchDaily

MARCH 2, 2025

David Lindsay A new site-specific pavilion has been unveiled in Bradford city centre as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. Designed by artist Zarah Hussain and architectural designer Fatima Mejbil , Infinite Light marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and the launch of Ramadan Festival 2025. The project has been commissioned by the Ramadan Tent Project in collaboration with Bradford 2025 and follows the inaugural Ramadan Pavilion designed by Shahed Saleem in 2023.

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