Every three years spectacular installations are sited among the cobble stone streets and medieval church steeples of Bruges, Belgium. For this year’s Bruges Triennial, SO – IL has designed an art piece, that plays into Bruges’s history of lace-making.
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Construction is underway on a memorial indebted to the nine victims of a mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. AN spoke with its designer Michael Arad, a principal at Handel Architects about the project.
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Love it or hate it: Vessel by Thomas Heatherwick will reopen to the public soon in Hudson Yards, albeit with new protective safety nets designed to prevent visitors from jumping off.
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Harvard GSD associate professor Dr. Bing Wang filed a lawsuit against Jerold Kayden, GSD’s real estate program director, and dean Sarah Whiting, alleging they have “discriminated against Dr. Wang based on her race, ancestry, national origin, and gender.”
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In Los Angeles, big names took stage at Coachella, among those Lana Del Rey, Skepta, Peggy Gou. Accompanying this year’s musicians at the widely attended California festival are three installations by Morag Myerscough, HANNAH, and Nebbia.
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In Bentonville, Arkansas, ­­Ledger, was a collaborative effort between local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects, Callaghan Horiuchi, and Mexico City–based Michel Rojkind to design a bikeable office building that has also become a community hub.
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Gensler and planning firm SHAPE have joined on for Centennial Yards’s second phase that will add 470,000 square feet of entertainment, retail, and restaurant space to an underutilized site in the heart of the Atlanta’s downtown.
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Bilgin Architects envelopes Kalyon Karapinar Central Control Building in reflective stainless steel
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The Air Barrier Association of America's annual Building Enclosure conference is back on the east coast with 2 full days of learning. Have you registered yet? abaaconference.com #abaa 2024 #architects #airbarrier #abaa

Weiss/Manfredi increased exhibition space, enhanced existing educational facilities, and allowed for more hands-on experiences at the Tampa Museum of Art in a recent renovation.
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This week the first horizontal girder for the Willis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over Rote 101 went up. It marks another step in the megaproject to create a safer passage for the local mountain lion population.
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Upon examination, Perfect Days possesses similarities to Moriyama-san, a film by Bêka & Lemoine. There are clear stylistic, soundtrack, and plot differences, but the main character’s vibe is strikingly similar: Both care for plants and stare at shadows.
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The spirit of mass timber is the ethos of Portland. 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.
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This year, Shepley Bulfinch turned 150 years old, making it the sixth oldest architecture firm in the U.S. At the Boston Architectural College an exhibition indebted to the practice founded by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1874, dives into its legacy.
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The MOLLIE Aspen, a new hotel in the popular ski town, designed by CCY Architects with interiors by Post Company, doesn’t overlook the area’s Bauhaus lineage.
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Rothko lovers: Take note. Shovels broke ground in Houston on phase two of the campus plan to restore and expand the site of the world famous Rothko Chapel. The new architecture takes cues from nearby bungalows built in the 1920s.
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In an op-ed the current ACSA Fellows to Advance Equity in Architecture discuss acsajustice.org a website they launched that centralizes architectural scholarship and initiatives focused on social and ecological justice.
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Details on the latest design for a tentative 62-story skyscraper at 350 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan have been released. This latest announcement signals a significantly taller building than previous iterations proposed for the Midtown site.
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Get ready and save the date for May 21st, 2024, because AN’s Facades+ is coming to Vancouver! Come be inspired by excellent presentations and discussions about emerging Facade engineering and fabrication trends in Vancouver. register now lnkd.in/gnCWXsUM

Plans to demolish a land art installation from 1996 by artist Mary Miss at the Des Moines Art Center have been stopped, at least for the time being. The order to cease the art piece’s dismantling comes after a lawsuit filed by Miss in federal court.
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