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The EPA is allowing asbestos, a substance banned in most countries since the '70s, back into the manufacturing process for some building materials. archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-as…
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Michael Sorkin, the architect, urbanist, theorist, author, and educator has passed away at 71 after contracting the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
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Vittorio Gregotti, the architect, urbanist, and writer who laid the groundwork for the Venice Architecture Biennale, died today novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Zohran Mamdani has a bone to pick with the city’s forest of metal scaffolding. The NYC mayoral candidate is calling for an overhaul of Local Law 11 to speed up repairs, clear long-standing sheds, and bring “safer, brighter, airier” streets back to NYC.
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Actor @terrycrews is now a promising young designer. He talks about his work for Bernhardt Design with @jimenez_lai archpaper.com/2017/10/terry-…
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.@terrycrews is definitely having a moment. Read our interview with him from last fall, where we discuss his burgeoning design career:
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Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) discusses the implications of the Joint Public Safety Training Campus, a tactile teaching facility for police on Chicago’s West Side and what role—if any—architects should play in designing facilities for the justice system.
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I.M. Pei, Pritzker Prize–winning architect and giant of late 20th-century design, has died at the age of 102. archpaper.com/2019/05/im-pei…
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In an op-ed, Michael Eliason (@Larch_Lab) says the root cause of multifamily architecture's blandness in the U.S. is quite simple. The answer is something that, once seen, cannot be unseen: stairs.
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Diébédo Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner, the first from Africa since the prestigious award was launched in 1979:
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BREAKING: Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture, has had his visa revoked ahead of the group's first U.S. survey and blocked from entering the country.
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"Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now" will gather professionals to reflect on a half-century of design and progress from the nation's black designers @NMAAHC. archpaper.com/2018/09/smiths…
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Irish architects and educators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, joint curators of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial, are the 2020 Pritzker Prize winners.
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The University of California has scrapped controversial plans for Munger Hall, a dormitory building with a scant number of windows. A recently issued RFQ is looking for alternatives to deliver 3,500 student beds.
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Flashy renderings that never materialize, writes @mcmansionhell, suck the air out of architecture. Actually realizing a building opens its creators up to criticism, but conceptual images are conduits to design journalism praise.
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Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) weighs in on the heated debate last week over proposed legislation that could regulate the use of gas stoves in American homes.
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An architect from Long Island was arrested for a series of murders, the fate of the Times Square Margaritaville is up-in-the air, and more news stories you don’t want to miss.
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"Architects do not sell their drawings in the same way an artist—digital or analog—would, and this is why the NFT house is not meant to be built," writes @mcmansionhell
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Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, died on February 4 in Lisbon, Portugal at age 88. The Aga Khan IV founded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1977. That award has since recognized and documented more than 9,000 projects around the globe.
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After being prominently featured in Parasite, Seoul has begun a campaign to renovate the city's thousands of semi-basement apartments.
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After a life well lived, William “Bill” Menking, architectural historian, educator, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper, passed away today at 72.
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Venturi was a leader in his field and forever changed the canon of architecture.
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World-renowned architecture professor Jean-Louis Cohen has passed away suddenly at age 74.
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Featured Job Listing: @BassProShops is hiring for an Architectural Illustrator in Springfield, Missouri. Check out the full listing at jobs.archpaper.com/job/archi…
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Mabel O. Wilson has won the 2021 Vincent Scully Prize:
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Boston City Hall is a building people love to hate. This week, the mayor announced the city government supports landmarking the building. The decision would protect the 1968 structure from renovations to its facade and main lobby.
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Non-Extractive Architecture offers a “long now” perspective, which judges human habitation as extractive in all places and across all time periods. ow.ly/ksXe50IKMjE
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The drawings, donated to the university by the Estate of Michael Graves, will become a teaching tool for students and publicly-accessible historical objects.
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A comprehensive exhibition at the University of Oklahoma explores the out-of-this-world legacy of mid-century architect Bruce Goff. archpaper.com/2019/04/bruce-…
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Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now is starting today at @NMAAHC! Join in anywhere on the livestream. archpaper.com/2018/09/smiths…
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In today's news, @nonstandardmcd is Kickstarting a documentary, Umberto Riva passes away at 93, and more:
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Mesoamerican architecture will dance at the @Guggenheim's upcoming performance: archpaper.com/2017/05/mesoam…
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The hybrid home uses a mix of 3D-printed concrete and timber to beat the Texas heat:
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The AIA, National Trust for Historic Preservation, DOCOMOMO, and other groups have all pushed back against the draft executive order that would mandate neoclassical federal buildings.
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Olafur Eliasson’s architecture studio completes stunning first building archpaper.com/2018/06/olafur…
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.@van_alen and @FlatironNY reveal winning Flatiron Public Plaza installation: archpaper.com/2016/11/van-al…
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"The court of public opinion has no say over the rule of the wallet," writes @mcmansionhell "and even the success of a decade-long campaign to recuperate Brutalism from the trash heap of history cannot alone save Burroughs Wellcome from the wrecking ball."
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Böhm's soaring Brutalist churches and mastery of steel and glass led to his Pritzker win in 1986:
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Junya Ishigami + Associates has canceled a planned lecture at MIT after students and faculty proposed asking the studio about its unpaid internships. archpaper.com/2019/05/junya-…
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The @Guggenheim will be putting on activities to celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday. @WrightTaliesin
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"Since the mid-20th century, urban highway construction has worked as a powerful tool to segregate and demolish communities of color, not just in Miami but in nearly every city in the U.S.," @SegByDesign maps the history of highway expansion in Miami.
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Over the course of their 72-year marriage, I.M. Pei and his wife Eileen amassed a substantial collection of modern and contemporary art, which will be put to auction later this month.
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Arata Isozaki is the 2019 Pritzker Achitecture Prize winner. archpaper.com/2019/03/arata-…
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Reread @mcmansionhell's remembrances of Paul Rudolph’s endangered Burroughs Wellcome headquarters building to learn how inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places:
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"Since the mid-20th century, urban highway construction has worked as a powerful tool to segregate and demolish communities of color, not just in Miami but in nearly every city in the U.S.," @SegByDesign maps the history of highway expansion in Miami.
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The Isenberg School of Management in Amherst, designed by BIG and Goody Clancy, spills in a domino-like effect with copper and glass.
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So long, Sbarro. As the Thompson Center closes for renovation to become the next Google office AN contributor Anjulie Rao @AnjulieRao memorializes the postmodernist building and its public spaces, including its popular food court.
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Frank Gehry donates $1 million to Los Angeles River schools for arts education archpaper.com/2018/04/frank-…
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An Italian court recently ruled that Santiago Calatrava needs to pay the city for cost over-runs and “negligence” in what they're calling a faulty design. archpaper.com/2019/08/venice…
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In case you missed it: Yesterday Vittorio Gregotti, the architect, urbanist, and writer who laid the groundwork for the Venice Architecture Biennale, passed away as a result of COVID-19.
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Architects were eager to get political and speak out during the Trump years, writes @mcmansionhell, but will they quiet down now that he's gone?
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London's mayor wants to move major streets underground to make the city pedestrian friendly blog.archpaper.com/2015/02/t…
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Kenneth Frampton is awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale archpaper.com/2018/04/kennet…
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Architect Fritz Read resigns from AIA over its pledge to work with President-Elect Trump #NotMyAIA archpaper.com/2016/11/fritz-…
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Restoration work on the the iconic trio of Observation Towers that make up the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park has begun, and will finish in 2021.
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"The court of public opinion has no say over the rule of the wallet," writes @mcmansionhell "and even the success of a decade-long campaign to recuperate Brutalism from the trash heap of history cannot alone save Burroughs Wellcome from the wrecking ball."
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No disrespect to Ohio's Big Basket, but it's time to draw attention to another duck for sale. archpaper.com/2018/01/dresse…
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Zaha Hadid Architect’s sprawling Beijing Daxing International Airport is nearly complete, and you can tour it thanks to a recently-released 360-degree walkthrough of the space.
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A year late, mega architecture festival Expo 2020 Dubai kicked off on Friday:
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A former military base in Monmouth County, New Jersey, will soon host a massive Netflix film studio. Plans for the 289-acre, $903 million campus were approved by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
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The new version of the SAH Archipedia features over 20,000 buildings from across the U.S., complete with essays, narratives, and even K-12 lesson planning tools.
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The first phase of the new LEGO campus in Billund, Denmark, is now open, and C.F. Møller went all out on toy-inspired flourishes. archpaper.com/2019/11/lego-c…
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Stuck inside because of coronavirus? Google Arts & Culture has assembled digital explorations of some of the world's most famous institutions. Even if they aren't open right now, you can privately tour them from home.
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San Francisco approved a mega-plan transform its busiest thoroughfare, Market Street, into a pedestrian-only space. archpaper.com/2019/10/san-fr…
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This site showcases achievements of pioneering women in American architecture archpaper.com/2017/12/site-p…
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"Architects refuse to acknowledge their role as laborers at their own peril," writes @mcmansionhell of Peggy Deamer's latest book, "as professionalization structures buckle under pressures of automation and de-skilling"
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Today architect Rafael Viñoly passed away at the age 78. During his illustrious career Viñoly amassed a robust and diverse portfolio of buildings, including 432 Park Avenue in New York and 20 Fenchurch Street in London.
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Last week, Tanzania revealed plans to build a 70-story tower in Zanzibar on a manmade island:
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Rio de Janeiro will be UNESCO's first World Capital of Architecture in 2020. The new program will spotlight cities as hubs for social and technological progress. archpaper.com/2019/01/rio-de…
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The Glass House Project has begun construction, and once complete, will again unite the ruins of the 1769 home of a Declaration of Independence signer.
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Zaha Hadid Architects' Beijing Daxing International Airport is officially open to the public, intentionally timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
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"Clearly, air conditioning conditions," writes @mcmansionhell. "It’s how it managed to dominate and supersede (with planetary consequences) a wide variety of interesting and sustainable architectural alternatives devised during the maturing of modernism."
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#London's mayor wants to move major streets underground to make a pedestrian-friendly city blog.archpaper.com/2015/02/t…
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Actor Terry Crews is now a promising young designer. He talks about his work for Bernhardt Design with Jimenez Lai. archpaper.com/2017/10/terry-…
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John Hejduk’s work portrayed in new light at Cooper Union exhibition: archpaper.com/2017/03/hejduk…
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First look at Jenny Sabin Studio’s immersive @MoMAPS1 installation: archpaper.com/2017/06/jenny-…
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Bold proposal for new bike bridge connecting Miami to Key Biscayne on display at @GablesMuseum: archpaper.com/2017/03/miami-…
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins competition to design artificial island complex in China: bit.ly/2bWek9s
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Phil Freelon, the Durham, North Carolina–based architect who helped design the monumental National Museum of African American History and Culture, has died.
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For $90, Frank Gehry will teach you architecture and design @masterclass: archpaper.com/2017/02/master…
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The Glass House Project has begun construction, and once complete, will again unite the ruins of the 1769 home of a Declaration of Independence signer.
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The world's first 3D-printed steel bridge was officially opened in a robotic ribbon cutting ceremony on July 15:
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San Jose is joining the growing list of cities using transitionary tiny homes to alleviate homelessness.
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Pratt Institute has named Quilian Riano dean of the School of Architecture. After Harriet Harriss stepped down the school assumed a national search to name a new dean. It didn’t have to look far as Riano has been the interim dean since Harriss’s departure.
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The Coachella music festival started today, and we have pics of this year's artist installations, featuring Francis Kéré @fuergando, Office Kovacs @afkovacs, and more. archpaper.com/2019/04/2019-c…
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Tayfun Kahraman, an urban planner from Turkey currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for opposition to construction and development plans in Turkey, shares how the country has faltered in its earthquake preparedness.
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Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed an interlocking tower trio for the state-owned CECEP, which is shooting for an ultra-sustainable certification.
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(@AnjulieRao) speaks with professors at architecture schools, updating the curriculum of professional practice courses to encourage historical and theoretical frameworks, research, and address the realities of labor.
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Happy 100th birthday Jane Jacobs! Events worldwide honor beloved urbanist's bday anniversary archpaper.com/2016/05/jane-j…
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Coronavirus has forced architecture schools across the country to move to digital learning, but on the upside, many of them have moved their end-of-the-semester exhibitions online. Here are 13 to check out:
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Feature film on Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in the works: archpaper.com/2017/02/farnsw…
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Urbanizing #Atlanta tries out multi-modal #transit options and a walkable district archpaper.com/news/articles.…
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Vittorio Gregotti, the architect, urbanist, and writer who laid the groundwork for the Venice Architecture Biennale, passed away last week as a result of COVID-19.
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Can Atalay, Mücella Yapıcı, and Tayfun Kahraman were given 18-year prison sentences for criticizing the Turkish government’s response to the 2023 earthquakes. Each will be awarded the European Prize for Architecture.
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"Clearly, air conditioning conditions," writes @mcmansionhell. "It’s how it managed to dominate and supersede (with planetary consequences) a wide variety of interesting and sustainable architectural alternatives devised during the maturing of modernism."
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Starting October 30, a new documentary about the two-year restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple will document how the iconic structure was brought back to life.
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Here are the winners of the 2018 @AIANational Honor Awards in architecture
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