Archinect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Following a major 11-year-long, $96 million restoration led by Rotterdam-based firm KAAN Architecten , the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) finally reopened in Belgium. The firm revived the original colors, materials, and routing of the historic space. Take a look at interior shots of the new gallery spaces below.

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Archinect

MARCH 5, 2025

A new guesthouse design on Tasmania ’s Bruny Island that balances site context, art, and material is worth noting for its transposition of landscape and cubist formalism. Room11 director Thomas Bailey says, "It is a place where the cut of contemporary architectural thinking is starkly rendered against a raw natural context."

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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

William Van Alen’s iconic masterpiece of the Art Deco style (which topped out just six days before the stock market crash of 1929) is now facing financial uncertainties after its pre-pandemic sale for just $150 million to an Austrian developer and New York-based CRE firm.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While the annual category winners comprise outstanding projects in areas such as sustainable adaptive reuse, new materials and typological innovations, this autumn, five exceptional firms will be awarded special recognition for their unparalleled contributions to the field.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 24, 2024

This curated selection of Best Unbuilt Architecture highlights projects submitted by the ArchDaily community that demonstrate the fusion of art, technology, and innovation within the realm of museums and cultural centers. Science Forest / ADAT Studio.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A list of architecture firms involved in the design of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM project has come to light along with a preview exhibition on view now in Riyadh at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for Contemporary Art that features proposals from unspecified designers. Exhibition image courtesy of NEOM (2022).

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

Popular Australian daily The Age is reporting that the $1.7

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Archinect

APRIL 28, 2022

Fresh on the heels of Selldorf Architects ’ most recent museum upgrade, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announced its selection of a team led by Annabelle Selldorf's firm to oversee its new AGO Global Contemporary expansion beginning in 2024.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Under Dong Gong’s visionary leadership, the firm has charted a course focused on uncovering subtle interrelationships between program and place, using spatial structure to enhance the perception of light, breeze, material and time. The firm also emphasizes the integral connection between architecture and construction.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In Archinect's latest weekly curated employer picks , we are highlighting five firms with current career opportunities in Brooklyn/New York City , Los Angeles , San Francisco , Phoenix , and Boston. For even more architecture jobs, visit the Archinect job board and browse our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

According to the AIA, the annual series “celebrates the best contemporary architecture and highlights the many ways buildings and spaces can improve lives.” The only firm this year to achieve more than one award was LMN for their ferry terminal in Mukilteo and their Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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World Architecture Community

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring curved roofs, has topped out in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The new museum, designed by BIG, engineering firm ARTS Group, and architecture studio Font, spans Üâ,âââ square meters and off.

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Archinect

MARCH 11, 2024

Founded in 1984, the firm describes its approach to architecture as an “alchemy of art, science, analysis, and intuition.” ” As we have previously reported, the firm’s impact on the built environment was honored in 2021 with their receipt of the 35th Louis I.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence." Joining the other installations at City Hall and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is another memorial house created inside the firm's office at 1 Chandler Street.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence." Joining the other installations at City Hall and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is another memorial house created inside the firm's office at 1 Chandler Street.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It goes back to the figure of the starchitect , where a sole designer is deemed responsible for the inception and materialization of a contemporary architectural monument, a rather problematic idea since architecture is by default a group endeavor. An architecture that is deeply rooted in context. A year later, the Battery Park (1.2

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2025

Promotion: as part of its Arts Month 2025 programming, local developer and property manager Swire Properties is supporting several installations throughout Hong Kong in collaboration with Art Basel Hong Kon g. The installation is part of Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters project and is the only off-site project as part of the fair.

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

French glassware brand Lalique has opened an art deco -informed flagship store in a 19th-century townhouse on New York City 's Upper East Side. Each space was designed to evoke the art deco glassware created by the brand's founder Ren Lalique, who was a leading designer in the movement during the 1920s.

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Archinect

AUGUST 22, 2022

Directed by Lyn Rice and Astrid Lipka, the practice has emerged from its art world beginnings to build a portfolio of cultural, educational, and public works, underlined with what the firm calls a “civic-minded intelligence and resourceful vigor.”

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

An Ettore Sottsass gridded feature wall and a sculptural green ladder characterise this 1920s Dutch house , which interiors firm DAB Studio designed to reference the Amsterdam School. Also based in Amsterdam, Studio Modijefsky created a contemporary family home inside a local dijkhuis – a traditional Dutch dwelling set next to a dyke.

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Archinect

JUNE 29, 2022

This week we highlight five Brooklyn-based job opportunities with firms currently seeking design professionals with 0-3 years of experience to join their team. The Lima Art Museum New Contemporary Art Wing design entry. Image render courtesy of Efficiency Lab for Architecture.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

According to The Art Newspaper , local firms Velatura Restaurações and Construtora Biapó have now completed the restoration of the historic facade and expect the building to be completely reopened sometime in 2027. ” They also mentioned that the fire apparently served as a “violent intervention”

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Archinect

MARCH 28, 2022

Al Mayassa was joined by two-thirds of the architects for the museums: Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron , who will design the Lusail Museum, and ELEMENTAL director Alejandro Aravena , whose firm will be responsible for the Art Mill. The Art Mill represents the 21-year-old ELEMENTAL’s first foray into the museum typology.

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Portland Architecture

JUNE 13, 2023

For me, like many, Gradient provided an introduction to the work Linden, Brown, which is the latest in a succession of award-winning local small firms founded by architects formerly with Portland’s Allied Works (including Waechter Architecture, Lever Architecture, and Beebe Skidmore).

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Design gallery Galerie Philia has unveiled a collection of contemporary designs based on the collections of the Medici family in the greenhouse of Florence 's 16th-century Palazzo Corsini al Prato. At one point it was more valuable than gold and had to be painstakingly imported from Afghanistan via the Silk Road. "It

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Archinect

AUGUST 1, 2022

The firm describes itself as a “leader in the revitalization of post-industrial neighborhoods and historic districts,” exemplified by a broad portfolio spanning a renovated brick warehouse in Tribeca to a contemporary glass tower built on an existing art deco building along the High Line.

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Architizer

JANUARY 14, 2025

Calling all architects, landscape architects and interior designers: Architizer's A+Awards allows firms of all sizes to showcase their practice and vie for the title of Worlds Best Architecture Firm. Start an A+Firm Award Application today. Start an A+Firm Award Application today.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The building contains a 390-seat concert hall SANAA collaborated with Japanese firm Nagata Acoustics to design curved wall acoustic panels, which alternate between reflecting and absorbing sounds, for the interior spaces in the MIT music building. The building's concert hall has a capacity of 390, with seating arranged in a semicircle.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Modulus Matrix , a six-story housing development of 85 socially rented homes in Cornell de Llobregat, Spain, designed by Barcelona firm Peris + Toral Arquitectes , took the plaudits. Barcelona firms MIAS Architects and Coll-Leclerc completed 72 social housing units in the Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood in 2023.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A collection of contemporary designs, including rugs by Doshi Levien and Eny Lee Parker for CC-Tapis and lighting by Flos , have been installed in the house and studio of iconic Mexican architect Max Cetto during Mexico City art week. The pair created a series of metallic stools and cabinets with undulating forms.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Mexican architecture firm Estudio MMX has unveiled the Progreso Museum of Geology, which is made of multiple structures clad in a finish called chukum that dates back to the Mayans. Estudio MMX mixed Mayan and contemporary architecture. The structure is clad in chukum. The other diagonal axis is occupied by taller structures.

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Archinect

MAY 20, 2022

” all(zone)'s MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Bangkok-based studio will reveal its design for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens site in July in advance of a public opening slated for November 17th. Image courtesy The Naomi Milgrom Foundation.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It combines state-of-the-art technologies with the desire for innovation and a reimagining of architecture as a design practice and world-building. With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sun Tower sits on a beach in the Chinese city of Yantai According to the Beijing-based studio, the design of the cone-shaped building was informed by a giant sundial and was also intended as a contemporary take on lighthouse typologies. It is fusing together all of the above, a new kind of species."

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This vision for technological innovation has carried through to contemporary Costa Rican architecture, spreading beyond its densely populated cities and creating architectural designs that stand harmoniously — not to mention sustainably — in nature. How are these architecture firms ranked?

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A large series of housing construction initiatives as well as high profile public buildings took place leading to the now iconic contemporary works of Polish architects Karol Żurawski, Krzysztof Ingarden and Daniel Libeskind. Undoubtedly, contemporary architecture firms hold great respect of the country’s iconic Brutalist character.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Fortunately, Architizer is able to provide guidance on the top design firms in Chile based on more than a decade of data and industry knowledge.

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