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10 hotly-anticipated buildings set to be completed in 2021
World Architetcure Community (WAC) has compiled a list of 10 hotly-anticipated buildings to be completed in 2021...
Sir David Adjaye wins 2021 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye has been awarded the 2021 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. The award is the UK's highest honour for architecture...
Algorithms are designing better buildings
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion...
By Silvio Carta 19 Jun 2020
Coronavirus: an architect on how the pandemic could change our homes forever
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, our homes have been serving as makeshift workplaces, schools, gyms and pubs...
By Tara Hipwood 27 May 2020
New AIA task force offers insights for adapting buildings into healthcare facilities
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has launched a new task force to inform public officials, healthcare facility owners and architects on adapting buildings into temporary healthcare facilities...
Registration open for 'De-Urbanized Epidemics' redesign competition
London-based architecture firm De-Urban Design Studio has launched a new ideas competition called 'De-Urbanized Epidemics: Re-Design of the Concept of Health in Relation to the Built Environment'...
How architect Yona Friedman used math to design utopian cities of the future
Architecture has lost a great visionary. Budapest-born French architect Yona Friedman died at age 96 on 20 February.
By Theodora Vardouli 6 Mar 2020
Sidewalk Labs releases its mass timber proto-model for high-rise buildings
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet, has released its new digital study for mass timber buildings that could reach 35 storeys in cities...
David Adjaye, Cai Guo-Qiang to receive 2020 Isamu Noguchi Award
Architect Sir David Adjaye OBE and artist Cai Guo-Qiang have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Isamu Noguchi Award by The Noguchi Museum...
Unbuilding cities as high-rises reach their use-by date
We are entering a new world where skyscrapers and other huge buildings are becoming redundant and need significant overhaul or replacement. The process is called unbuilding or, if you're a bit highfalutin, deconstruction...
By Norman Day 21 Jan 2020