Antonio Pacheco

For nearly 30 years, Frederick Fisher and Partners (FF&P) has occupied an enviable position within contemporary architecture as a design practice that takes on diverse and adventurous clients in realms that include residences, artist studios, universities, and other cultural institutions and...

New York City-based Curtis + Ginsberg Architects have a long track record of delivering a wide range of project types for public and private sector clients, particularly within the realm of affordable housing design. Founded in 1990 by Darby Curtis, AIA, and Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, the...

German film director Wim Wenders is planning a new documentary covering the recent work of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Regarding the forthcoming release, Wenders tells the dpa news agency,

International architecture firm Foster + Partners has begun construction on the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre Cairo, a new 300-bed hospital that aims to provide free state-of-the-art treatment for local and international patients. The hospital was founded by a surgeon named Sir Magdi...

George Eugene Kostritsky, one of the founding members of the architecture firm RTKL (now CallisonRTKL), has passed away. According to a remembrance posted to the CallisonRTKL website, Kostritsky passed away from complications resulting from COVID-19; He was 98 years old. Kostritsky was...

A 39-story residential tower designed by Morris Adjmi Architects is nearing the end of construction in New York City, where work on the city’s rising crop of luxury residential towers continues unabated. The 92,000-square-foot project is wrapped in an expressive gridded structural system that...

Just because prominent technology companies, including Twitter, Amazon, Apple, and others, have announced plans to extend work from home policies into 2022 and beyond, it doesn’t mean they aren’t planning for a return to the office somewhere down the line. A case in point is Google, which...

The Palm Springs Art Museum has announced its acquisition of Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher’s Aluminaire House, a futuristic prefabricated home that will be installed at the foot of the museum adjacent to a new public park. The Desert Sun reports that the nonprofit Aluminaire House...

Another attempt to bring statewide housing reforms to California’s zoning code has failed after a last-ditch effort to pass a bill that would allow homeowners to build two units per lot fell short. SB 1122 was created as response to the failure of the recent SB 50 densification plan, which...

Roger Vincent of The Los Angeles Times checks in on the construction progress for The Grand, a forthcoming $1 billion mixed-use development taking shape in Downtown Los Angeles across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The project, designed by Gehry Partners, has been in the works for...

Boston Architectural College (BAC) has launched a new online access portal called BAC Cloud Canopy for its remote learning community. The online platform is designed, according to an announcement, to provide

Many architects dream of one day building their thesis projects in real life to test out the heady design ideas that coalesce at the tail end of an architectural education. After graduating from Queensland Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture and Industrial Design in the late...

New York City- and Rome-based architecture and design studio Architensions has created an interior playground in Brooklyn that mixes and matches visual and formal references in order to create a space that blends

Architect Norman Foster is reviving a plan for creating expansive temporary facilities to be used by the parliament of the United Kingdom while the Palace of Westminster undergoes significant restoration.The £300 million proposal calls for a erecting an amorphous, 151-meter-long glass-wrapped...

New York City-based architects Worrell Yeung have renovated and redesigned a six-story, 38,000-square-foot former masonry factory situated near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The project updates an existing brick and timber building from the 1920s as well as a collection of four ancillary structures to...

Steve Rose of The Guardian explores the legacy of architect Paolo Soleri, both sordid and visionary. The in-depth article delves both into the history of Arcosanti and Soleri’s heroic status while also highlighting the architect’s toxic relationships with various women, including his...

A pair of identical 20-story residential towers designed by DXA Studio are on the rise in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. The twin towers feature a contextual facade designs highlighted by serial punched windows and building setbacks that align the towers’ height to those of the...

London-based architect Simon Allford has been elected as the new president of the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA). Allford is a founding principal of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris architects, winners of the 2015 Stirling Prize. According to RIBA, Allford won some 58% of the...

Mass Design Group has published its latest COVID-19 guide aimed at retrofitting and upgrading existing senior living facilities to minimize pandemic transmission. The Designing Senior Housing for Safe Interaction; The Role of Architecture in Fighting COVID-19 guide follows a strategy document...

With growing criticism over how lengthy, expensive, and exclusive getting licensed can be, and a rising cohort of unlicensed practicing designers reshaping what it means to work in architecture, architectural licensure finds itself in a moment of relative crisis. Will the long-standing arrangement..…