Building & Construction

Eligible project teams are encouraged to submit proposals for the 2025 Mass Timber Competition: Building Sustainable Schools, funded by the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and the USDA Forest Service, with support from the Center for Green Schools (CFGS) at USGBC and WoodWorks. This year’s competition will award funds totaling $1.8 million to support projects that accelerate the pace of mass timber adoption in […]

This week, the Sarasota Orchestra’s Board of Directors named William Rawn Associates (WRA) as the architect for the forthcoming Music Center. WRA was selected following a search that invited architecture firms to submit their qualifications to design the new arts venue. The Sarasota Orchestra’s Music Center will be located at 5701 Fruitville Road east of

Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana by Virginia Hanusik | Columbia Books on Architecture and the City | $28 I had lived in New Orleans for five weeks when Hurricane Ida hit. I was lucky enough to evacuate to a friend’s house in Houston, where my wife and

The Frick Collection announced this week that it will be reopening to the public in April 2025 following a long-awaited renovation by Selldorf Architects. The Frick Collection is a jewel box of New York City’s museum lineup, sited on the Fifth Avenue “Museum Mile” and comprising a stately 19th-century Italianate mansion and gardens. The renovation

Tempestuous legal drama over the Chrysler Building between Cooper Union and real estate mogul Aby Rosen ended in decisive victory for the bonafide New York school this week. On October 31, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jennifer Schecter sided with Cooper Union when Chrysler Building tenants were ordered to pay rent directly to the school instead of

While most of the world dithers in the face of climate catastrophe, Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been implementing climate resilience projects on a vast scale. Winning the confidence of mayors all over his country, Yu’s design firm, Turenscape, has completed hundreds of infrastructure projects called “Sponge Cities” since its founding in 1998. These

The theme, artistic director, and dates for the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) were announced today. Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change will be shepherded by Florencia Rodriguez, marking CAB’s first Latina artistic director. Rodriguez is a director at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture (UIC SoArch), and also an accomplished writer and

Design architect: Perkins&Will, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Location: Tongzhou, China Completion Date: 2024 On the banks of the Grand Canal in Tongzhou, China, the eastern gateway to Beijing, Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) designed a performing arts center comprised of three venues. While the three structures differ in scale from one another, they share a

Herzog & de Meuron (HdM) has designed a new research facility for Roche, a large Swiss pharmaceutical company based in Basel. The four new structures, collectively known as pRED, consist of two low-rise buildings and two high-rises. The facility, interconnected via a system of skybridges, consolidates Roche’s laboratories into a single location. HdM’s latest addition

St. Louis, Missouri, is home to the country’s oldest botanical garden, founded in 1859. At Missouri Botanical Garden, Ayers Saint Gross recently completed a handsome new visitors center, adding a fresh face to the historic property. Michael Vergason Landscape Architects ideated the new center’s arrival sequence with Ayers Saint Gross, as well as two new