Architecture: Research Guide

Get Lectured continues its Spring 2025 tour with a stop by the Central New York region for a look at the goings on at the Syracuse University School of Architecture in the new academic term. The list of lecturers includes Sarah Hammond (January 31); Ling Fan (February 4); Andrew Kudless (February...

New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is looking into a rare designation for the interior spaces of the recently sold 945 Madison Avenue (aka the Breuer Building) on the Upper East Side. According to The Art Newspaper, a hearing on the issues is expected to take place within...

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. Featured below are four briefs seeking transformative projects across architecture, interiors, and unbuilt work, exceptional works from recently...

The eleventh annual Winter Stations competition has revealed its selection of participants for 2025 as chosen by jury members Adam Barrett, Lily Jeon, Jon Jeronimus, Aaron Knight, and Alana Mercury.They outlined this year's theme of 'Dawn' as the "beginning of a new era" for the competition and a...

Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a large-scale residential project located along the Bohai Sea in Qinhuangdao, China, approximately 200 miles east of Beijing. The development, inspired by the principles of Moshe...

Writing in his Wired op-ed, Heatherwick mentions the involvement in a new research study between the University of Waterloo and his two-year-old Humanize Campaign, now the second such academic partner after the UK’s Loughborough University announced a new neuroscience-informed master’s program...

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for TEMPO, a new hotel and residential development in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Situated near the popular Praia Brava beach, and constructed of timber and concrete, the project is designed to maximize views of the ocean and surrounding mountains. Image...

Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has released images of its proposed 1325 West Fulton Street, a residential development in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. Developed for Sulo Development, the 859,000-square-foot project is the first of three planned towers for the full-block site in the West Loop...

Phillippe Starck has shared news of a newly completed architectural project in Spain called LA Almazara. The resorted olive oil manufacturing plant now allows for an inspiring epicurean museum-like experience for tourists in search of a day trip or hands-on romantic getaway. Image courtesy Starck...

The latest edition of our curated jobs roundup from the Archinect Job board features eight employers in the Los Angeles area offering senior-level architecture, design, and project management jobs. To explore specific job titles from the architectural...

A group of architects and historians in the Washington, D.C. metro area are now spearheading a push to enshrine the contributions of Black professional architecture's forefathers to the built environment of our nation’s capital through preservation research. Their advocacy was recently...

Oliver Wainwright takes the adage "Build up, not out" as his clarion call for rebuilding Los Angeles County in the wake of the (still ongoing) urban wildfires that have also sidelined many other critics of its present urban stasis, which was not addressed at all in the directive Mayor Karen Bass...

A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists led by the J. Paul Getty Trust has established an emergency relief fund for artists and art workers who have lost residences, studios, and livelihoods or have otherwise been impacted by the latest major Los Angeles fires. The LA Arts...

Japenese studio IGArchitects, led by Masato Igarashi, has completed a home on a narrow plot in Tokyo. Titled ‘Building Frame of the House,’ the scheme was designed for a married couple who sought a home that supported their busy work-from-home schedules while feeling each other’s...

The forthcoming Calder Gardens museum and cultural space designed by Herzog & de Meuron with landscape designer Piet Oudolf in Philadelphia has announced it will open to the public in September 2025. Sited along a 1.8-acred site on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the sculpture garden...

The results from the Norman Foster Foundation-led competition to rebuild Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been announced following the selection of winners by a jury headlined by Deborah Berke, Moshe Safdie, and Beatriz Colomina. Featuring a cash prize pool of more than $10,000 USD (around...

Following our previous look at an opening for a Museum Technology Manager at the California Science Center, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Project Captain at Practice (formerly GGA+). The role...

Mayor Karen Bass has released a detailed plan for the rebuilding of key commercial and residential structures destroyed in last week’s devastating fires in Los Angeles County. The plan, which follows an earlier executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that eliminated CEQA reviews and...

A new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed showroom for Chinese women’s fashion brand Marisfrolg, built with recycled materials, has opened in Shenzhen. Image: Marisfrolg Located at the heart of the Marisfrolg Fashion Group’s headquarters, the roughly 31,215-square-foot showroom interiors was...

The 2025 edition of the World Monuments Fund (WMF)'s biannual World Monuments Watch List has been announced with 25 new cultural sites considered to be under threat from a variety of different sources both natural and manmade. Leading the list was the notable and important inclusion of the...

A new grant of $558,232 from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation will go towards the restoration of the historic Matthewis Persen House Museum in Kingston, New York. What is considered to be one of America’s oldest existing residential structures was first...

As we kick off the Get Lectured Spring 2025 academic term, it’s time to choose the best Fall '24 architecture school lecture poster! Revisit the top designs from our series and vote for your favorite graphic creation below. In our last reader poll for Spring '24, the East Los Angeles College...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Stanford University have released a study highlighting the potential for construction materials to store billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Published on January 10 in the journal Science, the research suggests that integrating carbon...

Following our previous look at an opening for a Museum Technology Manager at the California Science Center, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Project Captain at Practice (formerly GGA+). The role...

AIANY’s picks for the 2025 AIA New York Design Awards winners were just announced from the Center for Architecture in Manhattan. A total of 24 projects representing the very best contributions made by members to the urban environment locally and abroad were selected by a jury whose 2025 members...

A settlement has been reached in a dispute over the removal of land artist Mary Miss’ Greenwood Pond: Double Site at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The Art Center will pay the artist $900,000 for a breach of contract for its planned demolition of the 29-year-old outdoor sculpture last spring...

Archigram, the revolutionary architectural collective that reshaped the discipline in the 1960s and 70s, is back with Archigram 10, 50 years after their last issue. Published by Circa Press and edited by founding member Peter Cook, the new edition features contributions from original members...

Construction input prices decreased by 0.2% for the month of December, according to a new Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data. Nonresidential construction input prices decreased 0.2% for the month, and overall construction...

Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs: This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in Brooklyn, Los Angeles/Long Beach, and San Francisco. For even more opportunities, visit...

A code adoption tracking resource produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that shows the status of different states’ compliance with hazard-resistant zoning measures is especially relevant given the recent spate of catastrophic weather events affecting Los Angeles and...