Building & Construction

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) officials have announced a completion date for the David Geffen Galleries designed by Peter Zumthor. The highly anticipated project will open to the public in April 2026. The announcement comes after four years of construction on the addition that runs parallel to Wilshire Boulevard. Today, scaffolding is being […]

In Kharkiv, Ukraine, the Palace of Industry, known as Derzhprom, was rocked by Russian “guided bombs” on October 29. The overall structure appears to have remained intact, but videos taken shortly after the October 29 strikes show blown out windows and debris all over Freedom Square, where the 13-story building sits. The complex hosts office

THE MART in Chicago announced a major showroom expansion for Andreu World, an award-winning, global commercial furnishings manufacturer that has been in the building since 2006. Scheduled to be completed by NeoCon 2025, the Spanish manufacturer will more than double its footprint, moving into an expansive new showroom on the building’s third floor. The significant

Utopian HoursOctober 18–20, 2024Turin, Italy What brings architects, landscape designers, master planners, politicians, photographers, and organizers together? Cities. Our love for them as well as our constantly evolving visions of how to make them better is the raison d’etre for Utopian Hours, a European festival on urbanism and design hosted by Stratosferica. As in past

Conservatories come in Crystal Palace and space frame forms, but they’ve never arrived quite like Weiss/Manfredi’s West Conservatory at Longwood Gardens. Located in Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Creek Valley, the 1,100-acre garden, once the estate of Pierre S. du Pont (heir and executive within that industrial empire), opened to the public in 1921 and has operated as

Ryan Mah is a Vancouver-based documentarian. He is the cofounder of Black Rhino Creative, a film production company, alongside his business partner, Danny Berish. Their latest film is Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, which examines the personal life and career of one of Canada’s greatest architects.  The documentary premiered last weekend at the Architecture

Last year, a $5 million grant from the New York State Council on the Arts helped pave the way for at least a dozen new pavilions to be built atop Art Omi @ Chatham, a 190-acre site in Hudson Valley. SO – IL was one of the several designers selected to ideate a small building there,

Mixing different materials together makes these cladding and facade systems as strong and durable as your project demands. (Courtesy Rieder) Matrix 3.0 Rieder On its way to climate neutrality, Rieder developed Matrix 3.0, a CO2-neutral material for sustainable facade elements. Fifty percent of the conventional cement was replaced by local Pozzolana, which has excellent structural

Thunderstorms have always been a fact of life in Nebraska—beautiful and awe-inspiring but intimidating if you’re not used to them. Certainly, changes to a host of Nebraska institutions in years past (Gene Leahy Mall, Omaha Central Public Library, Holland Performing Arts Center, Eppley Airfield) evoke similar feelings of excitement and anxiety. But Snøhetta’s completion of

On the corner of Kent Avenue and South 4th Street near the Williamsburg waterfront, a charming brick building used to be a factory. Now, 333 Kent Avenue has been repurposed into a nonprofit arts and office space dubbed Williamsburg Biannual. The adaptive reuse project was designed by Jorge Zapata, founder of JAZ Architects. It’s situated