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Field Operations, Thomas Phifer and Partners, and others are designing a new park in Atlanta
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (404+ words) In the last two decades, over 140 new buildings have been built in just one square mile of Midtown Atlanta. But just one acre of public greenspace has been added to accompany this building boom. A community nonprofit, Midtown Alliance, has…...
LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects expands the San Francisco University High School campus
6+ hour, 56+ min ago (353+ words) The street-facing structure rises 3 stories tall and encompasses 48, 000 square feet in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. LMSA contracted with Truebeck Construction to target a net-zero energy and LEED Platinum'certified building. IN SITU was responsible for the landscape scheme,…...
O'Donnell + Tuomey's angular precast building for V&A East beckons the public in
13+ hour, 57+ min ago (983+ words) The Architect's Newspaper After the 2012 Olympics, London Mayor Boris Johnson reportedly told V&A chair Nicholas Coleridge he envisioned "a cross between the British Museum and the V&A in South Kensington" for Olympic Park. "We want Corinthian columns. We…...
Timothy Hursley documents the demolition of a rice storage building
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (162+ words) Timothy Hursley documents the demolition of a mesmerizing rice storage building in Arkansas'The Architect's Newspaper Nearby was a rice storage building containing 31 bins that was over 100 years old. It was the only one like it left in the state. The…...
MASS Design Groups designs Snow County Prison Memorial in North Dakota
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (454+ words) Between 1941 and 1946, more than 125, 000 people of Japanese descent were'detained in the U. S. and forced into concentration camps, many of which were built on unceded'Native land across 14 states. In Bismarck, North Dakota, a new memorial offers victims, and descendants space to commemorate…...
MASS Design Group transforms manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (574+ words) Originally home to the Standard Gage Company, the building at 58 Parker Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York, sat empty for decades before being transformed into Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub. (Scott G. For two decades, 58 Parker Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York, sat empty....
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fountainhead bought by the Mississippi Museum of Art
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (465+ words) At Fountainhead, the Frank Lloyd Wright'designed home tucked into Jackson, Mississippi's Fondren neighborhood, nothing is square. The house emerges from the hillside with corners that slice obliquely into space and shadows fall at unexpected angles. Even the light, strained through…...
New plan for New Orleans's City Park focuses on resilience
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (665+ words) Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the City Park Conservancy revealed City Park 2050, a new long-term master plan developed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) in collaboration with local partners. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the world watched as…...
Norman Foster, Kazuyo Sejima, and others design birdhouses for charity
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (484+ words) Dame Tessa Jowell served in British Parliament for 23 years, a longstanding giant in the Labor Party. Jowell died in 2018 of brain cancer and her daughter, Jess Mills, now helms the Tessa Jowell Foundation as CEO in her honor. As part…...
Perkins Eastman expands executive committee for 2026
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (233+ words) Global design practice Perkins Eastman announces the appointment of three new leaders to the firm's Executive Committee. Heather Jauregui, Sean O'Donnell, and Emily Pierson-Brown join the team tasked. .. Global design practice Perkins Eastman announces the appointment of three new leaders…...