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St. Michael Medical Center Acute Care Expansion, a hospital in Washington State, is using up to 60% less energy compared to the typical hospital, whereas other hospitals we’ve designed in the region are predicted to reduce energy by almost 70%.

NBBJ becomes carbon neutral certified and commits to net zero carbon by 2050

07 Feb 2022

The milestone makes the international architecture, planning and design firm one of the largest in the industry to be carbon neutral certified

Luke Hayes

Gingerbread City returns to London with ‘nature in the city’ theme

11 Oct 2021

Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City 2021 call out to architects, landscape architects and engineers: ‘nature in the city’ plots go on sale

CLIMATESCOUT: CallisonRTKL launch new open source platform

18 Jun 2021

The free climate analysis and educational platform is accessible to all and will help users create more sustainable buildings

Converting offices to residential buildings in a post covid world and best practice when working in an unfamiliar environment

17 May 2021

Nancy Ruddy joins the World Build podcast to talk about how she set up her practice, working in Saudi Arabia and India and the future of cities post covid

Global collective of architects and designers launch International Design Alliance Network

26 Apr 2021

A group of architects, designers, planners and strategists have created the International Design Alliance (‘IDeA’) Network, aiming to better serve clients by harnessing shared philosophies and expertise

London’s National Gallery announces shortlisted design teams for NG200 plans

23 Apr 2021

Six design teams have been listed as potential partners to work with the gallery on series of capital projects to mark its bicentenary

Earth Day 2021 - most read sustainable stories from 2021 so far

21 Apr 2021

Earth Day takes place on the 22nd April every year, and to celebrate we are sharing our most read projects with sustainability at their core

Designing healthcare for neurodiversity, staff respite and a post covid world

19 Apr 2021

Brenda Smith, Healthcare Practice Leader for the New York studio of Perkins&Will, and former nurse talks about the new Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, how the pandemic has impacted healthcare design and how her experience as a former nurse helped shape her career

Harvard University Graduate School of Design shortlists four architects for 2021

09 Apr 2021

Now in its ninth cycle, the Wheelwright Prize supports innovative design research, crossing both cultural and architectural boundaries, with a $100,000 grant intended to support two years of study

How to create a culture of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in your architectural practice

05 Apr 2021

Perkins&Will and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have both released best practice guidelines for creating and implementing comprehensive diversity programs

Studio L, London founder’s interior design predictions for 2021

15 Mar 2021

Candy Floss colours and pastels, though mixed with slightly more saturated and acidic hues, are predicted to make bigger impacts in design this year

Global challenges, post-covid trends and how to write a perfect awards entry

01 Mar 2021

Justin Lau and Maggie Mullan join the World Build Podcast to talk about the global challenges architects and interior designers are facing due to Covid-19, the trends they expect to see in the next five years and what they would like to see, as judges, in this year’s WIN Awards and WAN Awards

Woods Bagot open studio in Auckland NZ

19 Feb 2021

The firm have relocated its Christchurch office to premises in Britomart, in the heart of the harbour city

Buro Happold pledges to be a net-zero carbon organisation in it’s Global Sustainability Report

19 Feb 2021

Firm takes the to lead on environmental issues in ambitious January 2021 Global Sustainability Report

Iberostar aims for carbon neutrality in hotel operations by 2030

17 Feb 2021

Iberostar announced its 2020 agenda roadmap for reaching carbon neutrality through nature-based solutions by 2030, to offset at least 75% of emissions by protecting nature in its destinations

Preventing coronavirus in workplaces, WELL Platinum certification and support from lemons

15 Feb 2021

Natasha Bonugli and Tania Adir talk about what’s being done to protect people from coronavirus in global workplace interiors, how advances in technology will make for safer work environments, the challenges faced when upgrading an older building to WELL Platinum certification and finally how lemons can help with concentration

Canada’s post-covid condos with mindfulness at their core

22 Jan 2021

Designed by Revery Architecture, The Butterfly is a new condo building in Vancouver which presents a bold, new approach to high-rise living by introducing shared outdoor garden spaces, and semi-private gardens, on each level to encourage social interactions among residents while reconnecting them with nature

Design Advocates expand pro bono design service mission for NY’s communities

10 Dec 2020

Design Advocates is adapting their spaces and operations for reopening, and creating strategies to ensure safe and comfortable continuing operation to help local businesses, non-profits and institutions respond to the crisis

MVRDV’s new Berlin office opening celebrated with an exhibition

03 Dec 2020

MVRDV have launched a new exhibition, MVRDV Haus Berlin, at the Architektur Galerie Berlin, celebrating almost 30 years’ worth of work in Germany

Norman Foster addresses first United Nations Forum of Mayors

02 Dec 2020

Foster + Partner’s founder gave the opening keynote to the first UN Forum of Mayors, where mayors presented their experience dealing with the COVID-19 health emergency and other challenges their cities are facing

Reshaping Architecture in a challenging world

19 Nov 2020

A conversation about architecture, climate change and the coronavirus

Hotel design and Covid-19

19 Nov 2020

This WIN Awards 2020 content session looks at how hotel design could be affected by Covid-19

Covid-19: the potential impact on commercial real estate and sustainable design

19 Nov 2020

This WIN Awards 2020 content session looks at the future of design

EDSA announce new leadership positions and enhanced services

11 Nov 2020

The promotion of B. Scott LaMont to Chief Executive Officer and Eric B. Propes as Chief Operating Officer comes as EDSA celebrates its 60th anniversary

Chloe Rokelle’s sustainable smart technological response post COVID-19

11 Nov 2020

Living Future livens public spaces with captivating aesthetics and makes sustainable handwashing inviting, an important first step toward increasing public hygiene in the post pandemic world

Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel merges companies and boost benefits

10 Nov 2020

The merger of Citterio-Viel & Partners Interiors S.r.l. into Citterio-Viel & Partners S.r.l. positions them together at first place among Italy based architecture and design firms for 2019 earnings

LWK + PARTNERS new Director shares four planning and urban design strategies

10 Nov 2020

Recently appointed Director at Gregory Leong will oversee the Planning & Urban Design Team

Unispace appoint new global Chief Executive and Chief Revenue Officer

09 Nov 2020

New global CEO Steven Quick and Chief Revenue Officer Michael Casolo aim to guide the business and clients out of COVID-19 and beyond

Courtesy Battery Park City Authority

One of the largest US neighbourhood-scale sustainability plans launched

09 Nov 2020

The Battery Park City Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive pathway of strategies, goals, and specific actions to achieve progressive sustainability targets over the next decade to make NY State carbon neutral by 2050

Enterprise Hub: first of its kind in South Africa’s Lesotho

06 Nov 2020

The annual fundraising initiative for rise international (Relationships Inspiring Social Enterprise) aim to raise $100,000 to design and build the hub for unemployed youth

Challenges, support and coronavirus

28 Oct 2020

To mark Black History month in the UK, we spoke to three women about the challenges that come with being both female and black in this sector, the support available in the UK and the US and how the coronavirus pandemic has revealed problems within the built environments of black communities

LWK + PARTNERS expand global footprint with 12th studio in Riyadh

14 Oct 2020

The new LWK + PARTNERS' Saudi Arabian studio will be led by Kerem Cengiz as Managing Director, and Usama Aziz as new Director

Nadel Architecture + Planning complete leadership transition and launch new design studio

13 Oct 2020

Greg Lyon and Patrick Winters are to continue the firm’s evolving legacy and Ryan Weller joins as Director of Retail to manage the firm’s new design studio in LA, US

Founder of Hill West Architects predicts COVID’s lasting effects on NY’s zoning laws

12 Oct 2020

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, zoning expert David West gives his predictions on how zoning laws will change as a result of COVID-19’s effect on almost every aspect of real estate

Website to support interest in architecture careers

23 Sep 2020

Those Amazing Professions Inc. (TAP) has launched Those Amazing Architects, an innovative website to inform young people about careers in architecture

Pandemic ‘playbook’ published

10 Sep 2020

Dyer Brown’s ‘Future Shift: Work spaces in Transition’ is a post Covid-19 guide for returning to offices and shared work settings

The future’s bright, the future’s Orange Architects

28 Aug 2020

The UK’s JSA and Netherlands based Orange Architects have merged to create a multidisciplinary and internationally operating office for architecture, urban design, interior design and outdoor space

Pauline Souza. Photo: Bruce Damonte

WRNS Studio Partner Pauline Souza elevated to AIA College of Fellows in 2020

31 Jul 2020

The College of Fellows honors members who have made significant contributions to the profession of architecture and society on a national level

Blenheim Estate Land appoints all-female VeloCity team to help shape sustainable future

16 Jul 2020

Award-winning, all-female multidisciplinary team of architects, planners, urbanists and engineers VeloCity - who are pioneering fresh thinking on how to sustain rural villages - appointed by Blenheim Estate Land in Oxfordshire

Spacesmith hires seasoned designer David Roberts to join growing Hudson Office

16 Jul 2020

David Roberts joins architecture and interior design firm Spacesmith as it expands its service in the Upstate New York and the capital region

HOK and Germfree Partner to design mobile Covid-19 Testing Lab

13 Jul 2020

Mobile Covid-19 testing lab for higher education, corporate and manufacturing campuses comes from a partnership between HOK and Germfree

'Age friendly city' revolutionizes post Covid-19 elderly care

10 Jul 2020

Montgomery Sisam Architects develop an innovative new project: Peel Manor Seniors Health and Wellness Village, a redevelopment project aiming to improve design standards for long-term care, infection control plans and resident experience

WTA designs Emergency Quarantine Facilities to help fight Covid-19

10 Jul 2020

WTA Architecture and Design Studio initiative in helping contain the spread of Covid-19 in the Philippines works on building Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQFs)

Calgary shelter reveals post-Covid-19 future for community-centric design

09 Jul 2020

YWCA in Calgary by Kasian Architecture and Entro opens YW Hub facility – a women’s centre that provides accessible support for at-risk women and their families

LWK + PARTNERS integrating mental and physical wellbeing in design

09 Jul 2020

LWK + PARTNERS says behavioural changes can be induced through environmental design, calling for healthy habits that elevate the quality of life

Health, Covid-19 and the healing power of architecture

08 Jul 2020

An LWK + PARTNERS director who leads the practice’s healthcare and senior living team, shares the trends of healthcare spaces and the role of design in improving people’s experience in complex facilities

How the public realm must adapt to a post-COVID-19 world

01 Jul 2020

Richard Hyams, former Norman Foster architect and founder of astudio, reflects on how the design of public realm spaces needs to change in the wake of COVID-19

Architects retrofit school buses into mobile Covid-19 testing labs in New York

19 Jun 2020

Push to bring testing to vulnerable communities comes from architecture and design firm Perkins and Will, along with its Denmark studio Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Arup Group

Film stars, artists, business owners and residents celebrate Black Los Angeles with groundbreaking of Destination Crenshaw

12 Jun 2020

More than 2,000 people gathered along Crenshaw Boulevard to commemorate an unprecedented Black L.A. community-led outdoor cultural experience

Studio Ma design challenges the idea of what an office should look like when we return post-coronavirus

08 Jun 2020

Studio Ma's design for The Phoenix Law Group's new light-filled office in Arizona asks what workplaces of the future should look like, and how should they perform?

Spatial implications of a post-coronavirus world explored in MVRDV NEXT video series

08 Jun 2020

MVRDV’s tech task force announces a new eight-part video series examining post-coronavirus spatial requirements and the impact at a range of scales from the individual person to the planet

Boston’s Leers Weinzapfel Associates wins 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Award

01 Jun 2020

First cross-laminated timber (CLT) academic structure comes to University of Massachusetts with John W. Olver Design Building

World’s first Master in Business for Architecture and Design launched

19 May 2020

IE School of Architecture and Design in Spain becomes the first higher education institution in the world to offer a Master in Business for Architecture and Design

Construction on Santander’s landmark new workplace is underway in Milton Keynes UK

12 May 2020

The £150m state-of-the-art campus, called Unity Place and designed by LOM architecture and design, will be a centre for digital banking innovation and will incorporate a range of community facilities

Singapore’s City in a Garden vision: Design Council and University to co-host webinar

28 Apr 2020

Experts will explore the interaction between buildings and the city as ecological system and address questions of concept, planning, design, technology and experience.

Harvard University Graduate School of Design shortlists three architects for 2020 Wheelwright Prize

22 Apr 2020

Now in its eighth cycle, the international competition for early-career architects to pursue innovative, boundary-driving design research announces shortlist

Carbone Interior Design win Luxury Lifestyle award for architecture and interior design

21 Apr 2020

Carbone's interior design specialists have given shape to elegant rooms in 5-star hotels, celebrities’ homes and villas worldwide

The Architectural Team unveil the five main values coming in 2020

07 Apr 2020

The new and in-process works reveal the power of innovative design solutions to make American communities more livable, more exciting, and more resilient in 2020

Harvard GSD appoint Chair of Department of Urban Planning and Design

06 Apr 2020

Rahul Mehrotra has been appointed as Chair of Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, effective 1 July 2020

Perkins and Will expand its Canadian practice

03 Apr 2020

Calgary studio are increasing capacity to provide architectural, interiors, and urban design services to clients in Alberta

Perkins and Will's Irish practise

30 Mar 2020

The firm’s expansion into Ireland’s capital reflects its commitment to Dublin and the surrounding region

Russian Architecture Biennale for Young Architects: the only one of its kind

25 Mar 2020

A youthful redevelopment of industrial sites in Tatarstan, Russia

Austrian Architect’s project: highlight at Moscow Museum exhibition

23 Mar 2020

Johannes Baar-Baarenfels presented his project "Sofia Serdika" at the Schusev Architecture Museum in Moscow

The challenges and rewards of adaptive reuse: One Wall Street case study

18 Mar 2020

Lilla Smith, Architecture and Design Director at Macklowe Properties, is overseeing the iconic transformation of One Wall Street. In this analysis she examines the issues for working sustainably and managing the old and new throughout the updating process

Adriano Alecchi (Mondadori Publishers)

Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies aged 92

16 Mar 2020

Vittorio Gregotti, an Italian architect who helped design the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics stadium, has died after catching the coronavirus, Italian media have reported

BuroHappold to develop Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for West Hollywood

09 Mar 2020

Sustainability leader tasked to create aggressive, long-term action plan to reduce emissions and mitigate effects of climate change on city’s most vulnerable communities

Saunders Boston Architects shape the future of architecture with sustainable innovation

06 Mar 2020

More than 130 leaders in sustainable innovation gathered at Cambridge-based Saunders Boston Architects’ event, SBA100: Looking Forward in February 2020

SAS’s sWELL investment: supporting architects

04 Mar 2020

SAS International is announced as the first UK supporting partner for the Blue Building Institute

Sakari Röyskö

Hanna Harris appointed as Helsinki’s new Chief Design Officer

02 Mar 2020

Licentiate of Social Sciences and Urban Researcher Hanna Harris has been chosen for the position of Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki

Acquiring Northern Virginia engineering firm marks LandDesign’s first in 40 years

28 Feb 2020

Its acquisition of BC Consultants demonstrates its continued growth in America, adding 200 plus people and raising its profile in Washington, D.C.

Visionary designs for living on the moon from SOM and ESA

25 Feb 2020

Memorandum of Collaboration signed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the European Space Agency to advance moon village research

Ebbsfleet Garden City projects: significant carbon-reducing schemes

18 Feb 2020

A range of carbon reduction measures including solar panels, sustainable drainage and electric vehicle charging points will be included in the development

Retrospect: Gábor Csanády’s work spanning 25 years

07 Feb 2020

Seven projects detailing the Hungarian architect’s portfolio

Hassell in Asia joins Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency response

30 Jan 2020

Hassell becomes the first and founding Asian member to launch the UK petition to bring the Asian architectural industry together on climate issues

London’s first Timber Technology masters launched in response to growing demand

27 Jan 2020

The course from London Metropolitan University will help tackle the UK housing crisis, as local authorities increasingly establishing a ‘timber first’ approach to planning

Public choose top 10 gingerbread city creations in London

23 Jan 2020

The Museum of Architecture (MoA) has revealed the top 10 gingerbread creations from its recent Gingerbread City exhibition

Industry News: Landscape architecture firms call for response to climate and biodiversity breakdown

16 Jan 2020

UK landscape architecture firms are calling on landscape architects around the world to act in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse

Industry News: architecture trends and technology predictions for next decade

15 Jan 2020

GlobalData has asked eight architects, designers and industry experts to give their predictions for architecture trends and technologies in the 2020s.

Industry News: CetraRuddy’s emerging women leaders mentorships boost design innovation

13 Jan 2020

Architecture and interior design firm promotes elevates women leaders in design innovation, project and strategic management


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