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China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people
China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million. City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta. The “Turn
Boston Society of Architects Headquarters by Höweler + Yoon Architecture
The following text and images are courtesy Höweler + Yoon Architecture for their competition-winning design — Splipstream Public Exchange — of the Boston Society of Architects Headquarters. The 154-year-old organization will move from 52 Broad Street to Atlantic Wharf. SLIPSTREAM maximizes the BSA’s engagement with a larger public by creating a series of interfaces, both
Rem Koolhaas’s Architectural Progeny.
The architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) are the forces behind some of the most striking structures built in recent years, including the Seattle Central Library and the CCTV headquarters, in Beijing. But dozens of architects who were trained at or otherwise passed through Koolhaas’s firm are now spread across the
Freelancer Bill of Rights
To support our Get Paid, Not Played campaign, freelancers at our Monthly Member Meetings produced this draft of a Freelancer Bill of Rights to empower themselves to demand fair treatment from clients. Our goal is to offer a space for freelancers to articulate the minimum work standards that they have the right to expect when
AIA NY Panel Discussion: NBAU Employment Outlook for Architects
When: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 Where: At The Center AIA New York Chapter 536 LaGuardia Place NY, NY 10012 (212) 683-0023 This panel discussion will take a look at what architects might expect in terms of employment and workforce trends this year. Speakers: David C. McFadden, Founder/CEO of Consulting for Architects,
RMJM Find Themselves Battling Layoffs, Staff Exits, Principals Leaving and Will Alsop Not Landing Jobs
Remember last summer when architect Will Alsop announced that he was getting out of the architecture business to concentrate on his painting? As quickly as that was announced, shortly thereafter it came out that, no, he was getting into becoming a professor. Finally, just a month or so later, he decided that he was going
Architecture Billings Index Dips Back into Negative Territory in October
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported today that following on the heels of the first positive reading since January 2008, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) dropped nearly two points in October. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and
The Impressive and Concerning Construction of a Hotel in Just Six Days
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0DSihggio] Currently making the rounds inside the design/architecture portions of the internet, as well as in email forwards from your grandparents and Twitter feeds the world over, is this time-lapse video of the construction of the Ark Hotel in Changsha, China. Reportedly, and time-stamped as such, it only took six days to build the 15-story
Is New York Architecture Past Its Prime?
The Center for Architecture currently has, on exhibition, a piece called the “liquid wall,” the winner of a competition for “innovative” material for building exteriors, as part of a show called Innovate/Integrate, which will be on display until Jan. 15. Displayed in the back of the soaring concrete-floored gallery two floors below street level, the
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