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May 17,2013

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA), the Minnesota Vikings and HKS Sports & Entertainment Group have unveiled the design of the...

The McCormick district plan, courtesy TVS Design
May 16,2013

Hoping to send a loud message that Chicago is serious about luring tourism and entertainment spending, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has released details of...

May 07,2013

Renovations to the former Nashville Bridge Company building were recently completed, including a newly-built modern wing. The facility has been re...

Courtesy BIG
April 26,2013

Danish architecture firm, BIG - led by Bjarke Ingels – has been announced...

April 26,2013

"The Competition," a new documentary produced by Angel Borrego Cuberto of Madrid, focuses on the efforts of five 'starchitects' to capture the...

April 24,2013

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants cool roofs added to the city’s building code. He is also asking the Department of Water and Power (...

April 23,2013

Richard Meier, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Hugh Hardy and Robert A.M. Stern are among the prominent architects who on Monday called for the Museum of...

April 19,2013

Construction crews are going to extremes to save the ornate brick façade of the Provo (Utah) Tabernacle temple, which was ravaged by a fire in...

April 17,2013

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week released preliminary plans for its $300 million Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

April 12,2013

Seattle's Beacon Food Forest project is transforming a seven-acre lot in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood into a self-sustaining, edible public...

Proposed Milwaukee Avenue Bridge. Courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh
April 12,2013

Plans are moving forward to convert an unused, century-old Chicago rail artery to a 2.7 mile, 13 acre recreational facility and transit corridor...

April 11,2013

The George W. Bush Presidential Center announced today it has earned Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in...

April 11,2013

Just 12 years old, the museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien will be taken down to make way for MoMA expansion.

Image © Mark Herboth courtesy NCSU
April 05,2013

The new Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, incorporates advanced building...

Washington Dulles International Airport
March 29,2013

WTTW Chicago, in partnership with the Society of Architectural Historians, has produced "10 Builidngs That Changed America," a TV show set to air...

March 22,2013

A soaring opera center in Hong Kong and a multi-tower music center in Calgary are among the latest cultural projects.

March 15,2013

The Chicago Preservation Society released its annual list of the buildings at high risk for demolition.

A view of Loring Park, Minneapolis. Credit: Dan Wick
February 25,2013

Charlotte, Denver, and Milwaukee are among 10 U.S. cities ranked recently by the conservation organization American Forests for having quality...

The winning proposal would create a green space in place of an existing concrete
February 22,2013

 A proposal by atelierWHY to create a heavily wooded park on the downtown riverfront has taken first place in the juried ...

A movable shell would create temporary exhibition/performance space for NYC.
February 19,2013

The Culture Shed, a proposed 170,000-sf project for New York City's Hudson Yards development, could be the ultimate in "pop-up" facilities....