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Global warming has had disastrous consequences for the world’s transport infrastructure, hurting trade and quality of life. Just this week, New York’s Third Avenue Bridge connecting the Bronx and Manhattan literally stopped working because of an ongoing heatwave, creating dramatic complications for the region’s commuters. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper   The post Arup’s

The preeminent software licensing company, Adobe, whose products include industry-standard programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, is being sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for surprising customers with hidden termination fees and an overly complicated cancellation process. The action is a non-criminal suit against Adobe and two of its executives that will result in civil

Scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are experimenting with fungal mycelium to help support life on the Moon and Mars. Last week, NASA rolled out a concept it calls “mycotecture”—architecture made of mycelium. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post NASA is prototyping fungal mycelium bricks to “grow homes” on the

A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of the Physical-Virtual Continuum by James F. Kerestes, Ebrahim Poustinchi, and Vahid Vahdat | ETC Press | $65 Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post A new AR-guided collection of essays defines “Purpleness” in architecture appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

Picture a house with no drywall and no visible wiring or ductwork. Rather, the plumbing and electrical systems are tucked away out of sight and accessed behind attractive wood paneling. The house you’re picturing is CM1, the first WELL-certified residence and a prototype for an innovative construction method dubbed “hypostruction” by its architects. The house

Next fall, the world’s first ever Bachelor of Virtual Architecture (BVA) program will launch at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Marywood’s new program will be sited in its Center for Architectural Studies and led by Tabletop Wargamer and metaverse reviewer Ryan Scavnicky, who is also an AN contributor. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The

Twelve years ago, a reservoir called Folsom Lake, about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento, dried up. On the drought-cracked bottom lay a clay pipe, submerged since 1955, when the reservoir was built. That pipe, like most that run below cities like Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, was made by Gladding, McBean, a terra-cotta manufacturer

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released a PowerPoint that gives a glimpse into what the Likud Party has in mind for Gaza’s future, and the Levant region at large. On May 3, Netanyahu unveiled Gaza 2035: A three-step master plan to build what he calls the “Gaza-Arish-Sderot Free Trade Zone.” The plan was

Engineered stone is often hailed as a wonder material. It’s cheap, durable, recyclable, and attractive. But it’s also killing people, according to medical researchers and public health officials around the world. They’re linking a surge in severe cases of silicosis, a progressive and incurable lung disease, to the material’s growing popularity. Silicosis is one of

Geo-Fantasies: A Space Race on Planet Earth Citygroup 104b Forsyth Street New York Through June 16 Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post <em>Geo-Fantasies</em> at Citygroup peels back the layers of the carbon capture industry appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

Modern architecture and ocean liners are close cousins, if not immediate siblings. A revolution in one discipline tends to signal that change is coming for the other. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post Cargill debuts the world’s first ever wind-powered ocean liner with WindWings® appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

The spirit of mass timber is the ethos of Portland; there’s no better place for this conference than the City of Roses. For the eighth year in a row, the world’s largest gathering of mass timber experts and stakeholders assembled for the 2024 International Mass Timber Conference (IMTC) at the Oregon Convention Center. Pre-conference events

Believe it or not before the proliferation of the gasoline powered car, electric vehicles (EV) were the norm. The first crude EV was introduced in 1832 by Robert Anderson, and became widely popular before the  Model T in 1908. EVs saw a resurgence in the 1990’s, became a stereotype vehicle for environmentalists, and now after

Well before Herman Melville penned Moby Dick, seaside towns along the Massachusetts shoreline from Gloucester to New Bedford have provided kitchens with lobster, salmon, pike, bass, and other produce. Just south of Gloucester is Manchester-by-the-Sea, an old blue-collar town whose economy lives and dies by the fishing industry. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The

Design for Freedom held its annual summit this week at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut. There, architects, business leaders, engineers, students, construction experts, techies, and other professionals coalesced in the bucolic setting by SANAA to discuss ending forced labor in the global construction industry.  Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post How can

It seems to be out of a movie to have a window looking out into distant locations to greet foreign social circles and cultures. The Portal, a public technology sculpture arriving in New York City and Dublin this spring, is set to make this cinematic fantasy into a reality. Serving as a visual bridge, the

“Sphere is more than a venue,” said Jim Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Sphere Entertainment and MSG Entertainment. Since the bright, titanic-sized ball in landed in the middle of Las Vegas last summer, the graphics emblazoned on its exterior and the stunts that followed have captured the public’s attention. Its cool eye-catching visual designs

Unlike the NFT craze of 2020, a fire that burnt out quite quickly, it seems like the rage centering AI’s world takeover, a similarly feared practice, has become accepted and less scary, at least for now. OpenAI, one of the largest software companies for text-to-image AI, is now readying to launch Sora, an AI program

Fallingwater is one of his most notable buildings, but there’s a good chance you don’t know the other half of Frank Lloyd Wright’s oeuvre. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania, hosted at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, explores both realized works and paper architecture, including a residential highrise, a parking garage, and the white elephant of

Perforating any metal object adds both visual interest and texture. A new offering from A. Zahner Company allows architects and designers to detail metal panels for facades, walls, signage, and other building applications with a perforation style that renders a painting-like appearance. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post Zahner’s ImageLines produces painting-like perforations

It’s hard to pinpoint the Las Vegas Sphere’s main attraction. Is it the headline performances in its 17,600-seat auditorium, its glowing exoskeleton, or its recently unveiled, almost supernatural interiors? In addition to its outdoor surface totaling 580,00 square feet of glowing illumination, 300,000 square feet of interior space was outfitted to match suit. ICRAVE, a

In the midst of the Mayan Jungle in Mexico, French artist Antoine Bertin is set to develop an AI-integrated installation The Bat Cloud that serves as a bat habitat and a public listening space for exploring bat language through artificial intelligence. The installation was the winning submission to an open-call from AZULIK and interdisciplinary arts

Habits of the Anthropocene ACADIA 2023 University of Colorado Denver October 21–28 Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post ACADIA’s <em>Habits of the Anthropocene</em> offered imaginative presentations on bioengineering, craft, and information appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

You get a sphere! You may get a sphere! You don’t get a sphere… A ruling yesterday from London mayor Sadiq Khan may have confirmed the fate of London’s version of a Populous-designed Sphere: Decision refused. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects planning application for Populous-designed Sphere in Stratford

This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM)—a datum used by gardeners and farmers to determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a given location. Today, approximately 80 million growers in the United States and its “territories” depend on PHZM to help

“Bill-ding Boards”—a term coined by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in their 1984 book A View from the Campidoglio—are very in these days. A Bill-ding Board is what it sounds like: a building whose facade effectively functions as a billboard (building + billboard=Bill-ding Board), typically sited on a major thoroughfare or prominent public space. The Sphere

Buckminster Fuller debuted his geodesic dome concept at the 1954 Milan Triennale as a large cardboard model. The showcase turned into a career-long examination of spherical housing prototypes and energy efficient building methods. Fuller eventually resided in one of his realized designs for several years. Today, the nonprofit that runs “Bucky Dome,” Fuller’s residence from

Happy Halloween! To celebrate spooky season AN editors have asked text-to-image generator DALL·E to design Halloween-themed houses by famous architects, in true DALL·E fashion some of the results are nightmarish reproductions of recognizable architectural styles, while others are more subdued structures with an assortment of jack-o-lanterns on the front lawn and an orange glow beaming

An early episode of SpongeBob SquarePants contained a particularly moving scene. Upon seeing Patrick Star approached by the dangerous Man Ray, a villain who had kidnapped Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, our hero calls out, “Not so fast, archvillain. We still have the Orb of Confusion!” The Orb of Confusion was a simple blue glass