Speaking at Greenbuild 2026, a U.S. Green Building Council executive said community opposition to the data centre boom might be eased through sustainable construction and operations, presenting the wave of new facilities as an opportunity for green building.
Read more at Construction Dive →Ghent's new design museum rises over the medieval rooftops like an angular white watchtower. The Guardian reports it was made by reusing the city's condemned concrete frames, windows, car windscreens, sinks and old toilets, and that it absorbs CO2.
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Experts in Chennai said Tamil Nadu has made progress on wastewater treatment but still has gaps in collecting and treating sewage. Nature based solutions, they argued, offer a low energy, decentralised way to treat wastewater close to where it is produced.
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The Indian Green Building Council has urged Telangana to give property tax concessions to green certified homes, require annual cleaning of rainwater harvesting pits and make borewell users recharge groundwater, chairman C Shekar Reddy said at a Building a Greener Hyderabad round table.
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AD India tours a well ventilated home in Bhuj by Hiten Kakadiya of Aayam Architects, designed to stay comfortable through 40°C summers. Restraint replaces the expected Italian marble excess, and the family's Jain beliefs shaped parts of the design.
Read more at AD India →Pupils at Wester Hailes High School returned from half term to a new 800 capacity Passivhaus building delivered by McLaughlin and Harvey for the City of Edinburgh Council. It is organised around a bright central atrium with breakout and retreat spaces on every floor.
Read more at Project Scotland →A new 20 bedroom hotel, pub and restaurant in Runswick Bay near Whitby, billed as the first UK hotel built to the Passivhaus standard, has topped out. The 19,321 sq ft coastal building replaces a hotel that was demolished on the site.
Read more at The Scarborough News →A 3,466 sq ft home in Rock Hill is the first Phius certified Passive House in eastern Missouri, according to architect Jessica Deem of Virescent Architecture and Design. Kansas City was home to the state's first certified project.
Read more at St. Louis Magazine →Twenty five years after King County in Washington committed to green building, nearly 7,500 families live in affordable green homes and critical infrastructure is better prepared for climate impacts, the county says in its anniversary review.
Read more at King County Field Notes →The Green Building Council South Africa has awarded Redefine Properties' Blue Route Mall in Tokai, Cape Town a Net Zero Waste Level 2 certification, recognising improved waste management and less waste sent to landfill from daily operations.
Read more at Property Wheel →Absa Bank Ghana's new headquarters, Absa Place on Independence Avenue in Accra, has achieved EDGE Advanced certification from the International Finance Corporation, recognising high standards of energy and water efficiency in the building's design.
Read more at Ghanaian Times →A proposal in Portland would require owners of apartment and commercial buildings of at least 20,000 sq ft to report their energy use and gradually reduce fossil fuel use. Natural gas and property industry lobbyists are pushing back against the plan.
Read more at Yahoo News →The Emirates Green Building Council announced the programme for its 15th Annual Congress, themed Beyond the Sandbox, together with the 14th MENA Green Building Awards, as the UAE aims for a 79 percent cut in emissions from buildings.
Read more at Zawya →Climate tech firm KarbunWise is exhibiting at Greenbuild 2026 in New York with a life cycle assessment platform it says is fast and cost effective, aimed at developers, architects and manufacturers facing LEED v5 and cross border carbon scrutiny.
Read more at PR Newswire →India's green building convention, the 18th GRIHA Summit, begins on Tuesday 3 November at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. Co-organised by the GRIHA Council and TERI, it brings together engineers, built environment professionals and policymakers.
Read more at The Optimist →South African property finance professional Tshepiso Kobile and Nigerian investment professional Refiner Anene have won the 2026 Women in Green Building Competition, recognised for their work to advance sustainable housing across Africa.
Read more at IOL →Canadian and European researchers rebuilt the green roof physics inside a widely used weather model, correcting how heat moves through the thin soil layer. The overhaul cuts heat flux errors by more than 75 percent, sharpening predictions of urban cooling.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →Green Building Advisor talks to the inventor of Ferrock, a cement free building material made with waste steel dust, about how it could let buildings actively take up carbon dioxide long after construction is finished.
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Radhakrishnan M.S., a Kochi based architecture student, won the 28th Charles Correa Gold Medal in Mumbai on 22 October for his thesis Energy Commons, which reimagines restricted energy infrastructure as a civic resource and a place of shared public life.
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Ekarth Studio designed the 10,000 sq ft Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Center for Music Learning and Research at IIT Madras in Chennai with bamboo as its primary structure. Parametric Architecture reports the vaulted complex was completed in just 11 months.
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Urban designers Nishita Parmar and Vedanti Agarwal studied Bengaluru's Racecourse Junction, found that few cars used one left turn while many pedestrians needed to cross, and reimagined the empty space under the flyover with swings, seating and greenery.
Read more at The Better India →
ArchDaily examines how mangrove forests shape coastal protection and urban development in India. Their roots and tidal channels influence how water moves and how communities experience flood risk, with protection depending on the width and condition of the forest.
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Architect and urban design consultant Raj Rewal spoke with students and faculty at Anant National University in Ahmedabad at a symposium under Design(ing) Futures, an initiative with Global Village Foundation that brings influential design voices to campus.
Read more at ANI News →Good Earth marks 30 years with a new flagship on IREO Boulevard, a tree lined high street by Foster and Partners on Gurugram's Golf Course Road Extension. Designed by Abha Narain Lambah, it gathers everything the brand has explored since 1996.
Read more at AD India →In Aurangabad's MIDC industrial area, an old family owned soap factory that holds decades of a multi generational business has been transformed into a contemporary workplace that keeps the marks of its past life, AD India reports.
Read more at AD India →India Today names Design Forum International its architects of the month, profiling the three IIT Kharagpur graduates behind the practice and how they have spent three decades working in India's luxury residential and commercial market.
Read more at India Today →ArchitectureLive asks why Indians tolerate potholes, unfinished buildings and tangled wires, yet a wall covered in torn posters quickly gets a fresh coat of paint and a new identity, and what that habit says about public space.
Read more at ArchitectureLive! →Haryana's town and country planning department has put a building plan approval in Sushant Lok-I on hold after inspectors found that excavation on the plot had left an adjoining five storey building dangerously tilted.
Read more at Hindustan Times →Delhi plans to develop the Yamuna riverfront in two phases, from Palla to Wazirabad and from Wazirabad to Okhla barrage, including parks, and will sign an agreement with the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation to study Gujarat's model.
Read more at Mint →Closing the 19th Urban Mobility India conference in Bhubaneswar, Union housing minister Manohar Lal set out three principles for urban mobility, integration, inclusiveness and intelligence, stressing that transport systems must work together.
Read more at Prameya News →The second National Urban Conclave, organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, opened in Bhubaneswar on Saturday, bringing policymakers, urban experts and industry together to discuss India's urban transformation and sustainable city development.
Read more at India Gazette →Chhattisgarh's Urban Administration and Development Department signed agreements with HUDCO and CEPT University in two MoUs aimed at strengthening municipal finance and technical capacity in the state's urban local bodies, signed during an event in the presence of the chief minister.
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Mary Duggan Architects and RUFFARCHITECTS won the RIBA Stirling Prize for Lion Green Road, a council commissioned housing scheme in south London. Built on a former car park, it turns an eight metre level change into 157 homes across five blocks.
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Nakshabid Architects' Green Field Factory in Rangpur, Bangladesh, won the RIBA International Prize on 15 October. The seven storey textile facility for Karupannya Rangpur employs about 5,000 people, most of them women, and was designed around their daily experience.
Read more at Parametric Architecture →
The Shanghai Grand Opera House has opened beneath a sweeping roof, ending a decade long process led by Snøhetta, which won the 2017 design competition with ECADI, Theatre Projects and Nagata Acoustics. The design centres on movement and belonging.
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Curators Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu say architecture must return to its essence. Their 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Do Architecture, For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality, runs from 8 May to 21 November.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale has closed indefinitely after a visitor, Brazilian university rector Rogério Renato Mateucci, was killed on 16 October when roofing material dislodged by strong winds struck him during a tour.
Read more at Archinect →The Architecture MasterPrize revealed its 2026 winners across architectural design, firm of the year, products and photography, judged on excellence, originality, function and sustainability. Winners will be honoured at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao next month.
Read more at Archinect →The Prix Versailles has named seven arena and stadium designs as the world's most beautiful of 2026, which secretary general Jérôme Gouadain described as true contemporary reflections of the geographic areas where they are located.
Read more at Archinect →Two recent Paris housing projects that mix apartments of different sizes with gardens, courtyards and other shared outdoor space have won the European Collective Housing Award, offering lessons for cities struggling to provide affordable homes.
Read more at ArchDaily →OMA has completed the Palais de Justice de Lille, a six sided courthouse for the city's high and district courts commissioned by France's Ministry of Justice. Its faceted facade is lined with coloured glass beside a star shaped fortification.
Read more at Dezeen →David Chipperfield Architects' Berlin office has added a monolithic concrete pavilion that houses just one Anselm Kiefer painting to the sculpture garden of the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, Germany.
Read more at Dezeen →Foster and Partners has designed a pair of skyscrapers joined by three bridges as the centrepiece of World Trade Center Yerevan in Armenia. One tower will hold offices and the other will contain apartments and a hotel.
Read more at Dezeen →Dallas's Perot Museum of Nature and Science plans a four acre campus expansion by Morphosis with landscape by MVVA, adding 60,000 sq ft of outdoor science exhibits and public space and doubling its exhibition space.
Read more at Archinect →Johnston Marklee has unveiled plans to expand the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach into a 22,000 sq ft area at the southwest corner of its campus, with elevated galleries and courtyard spaces for the public.
Read more at Dezeen →Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled Lilli, a residential skyscraper on a slender waterfront site in Miami, a fluid tower that the US studio says is designed to display quiet refinement on the city's skyline.
Read more at Dezeen →Mecanoo has released new images of its renovation of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which includes a new wing, a renewed museum garden and a reorganised layout to make circulation through the complex clearer.
Read more at ArchDaily →The firm I. M. Pei founded in 1955 has renamed itself PCF Architects. The practice says the change reflects its collaborative structure and wider team while keeping continuity with the legacy of its founders.
Read more at Archinect →New South Wales has revealed the teams shortlisted in the Bays West International Design Competition, a two stage contest run with the Government Architect NSW to guide the transformation of the White Bay Power Station and Glebe Island area into a new residential suburb.
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The EU Innovation Fund will grant Swedish firm Cemvision up to 27.5 million euros for a plant in Ventspils, Latvia, making 500,000 tonnes a year of supersulfated cement, which can cut CO2 emissions by 93 percent compared with traditional cement.
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Representatives Andrea Salinas of Oregon and Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania introduced a bill to give US mass timber factories a federal tax break like the one built for chip plants. Salinas says too few factories exist while Oregon needs nearly 500,000 homes.
Read more at Wood Central →Installation of about 30 tonnes of timber is underway at Sunshine Coast Airport's A$170 million terminal redevelopment, which will become Australia's first mass timber engineered terminal, designed to reflect the region's subtropical landscape.
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Illawarra Grammar School's Hoskins Building in Wollongong by betti und knut architecture won Australia's best timber building at the 27th Australian Timber Design Awards. Using cross laminated timber instead of glulam cut the overall price by 10 percent.
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ZGF Architects says tribal forests supplied 44 percent of the wood in HP's new 225,000 sq ft research building in Vancouver, Washington, and that the team traced all of its timber at least to the type of landowner it came from.
Read more at Wood Central →Two cleantech advocates tell BetaKit that greening Canada's data centre boom starts with the buildings and the vast amounts of concrete they use, so lower carbon concrete can reduce emissions before a facility is even switched on.
Read more at BetaKit →ETH Zurich researcher Karen Antorveza Paez has developed two digital fabrication methods in which Sporosarcina pasteurii bacteria produce limestone that binds sand into solid architectural elements, a possible alternative to cement based construction.
Read more at Archinect →Researchers at RMIT University led by Baohua Jia and Nic Bao made a 3D printing filament from spent coffee grounds and biodegradable polymers, and tested it in a modular installation shown at Melbourne Design Week.
Read more at Archinect →Burgundy bricks that incorporate reclaimed manufacturing waste wrap Princeton University's Frist Health Centre in New Jersey. Called Ponderosa Western, they are part of North American manufacturer Glen-Gery's Western Series, shown in a Dezeen video carousel.
Read more at Dezeen →Yvonne Mak's fortress of sandbag shaped modules floats in the Dommel river beside Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum, displaying more than ten emerging lower carbon concrete formulations as a live, public material study.
Read more at designboom →LoüTeq founder Luke Schüette says the 200 ft LouTower, billed as the world's first observation tower made of structurally engineered bamboo, would be the centrepiece of a 100 acre park and innovation district proposed for the St Louis riverfront.
Read more at Wood Central →The Asian Development Bank approved a $42.2 million facility to develop the bamboo industry in India's northeastern states, supporting community projects to grow, use and manage bamboo, strengthening livelihoods and reducing imports.
Read more at AgroSpectrum India →Rammed Earth Consulting director Rowland Keable argues that earth is one of the most abundant and overlooked construction materials, showing how local clay and soil can create durable, adaptable and genuinely circular buildings.
Read more at Architecture Today →At Groundbreak 2026, Procore announced the next phase of its NVIDIA collaboration, adding digital twin capabilities to help construction teams spot risks earlier, simulate real world conditions and protect schedules on complex projects.
Read more at Yahoo Finance →AEC Magazine talks to Revizto chief product officer Marc Schuetz about the platform's new Model Context Protocol server, packaged with reusable Claude skills based on what project teams actually do, to get more value from BIM data.
Read more at AEC Magazine →Construction project information software company Newforma has acquired Lumi AI. Construction Dive reports that Newforma will incorporate Lumi into its technology and bolster Lumi's offering with Newforma's own proprietary data, built up over decades of customer interaction.
Read more at Construction Dive →Cleora, a 55 acre development in Salida, Colorado, is set to become one of the world's largest planned 3D printed residential communities, built by contractor True North with RIC Robotics and delivering single family homes, duplexes and accessory units.
Read more at Building Design and Construction →Holy Trinity Church and the Cardinal Josef Beran Community Center in Neratovice, Czech Republic, are under construction with a 3D printed nave, tower and rectory, and are expected to open in 2028.
Read more at 3Dnatives →The centuries old Japanese technique of shou sugi ban, charring timber siding to protect it from the elements, is giving modern American homes dark, striking exteriors, Realtor reports, highlighting five homes that use it.
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The Greater Bengaluru Authority has launched the Bengaluru Urban Heat Programme to protect outdoor workers such as pourakarmikas, ASHA workers and traffic police from rising heat, with cool roofs, shaded shelters and greener public spaces planned.
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A stampede at Kolkata's Chorbagan Sarbojonin Durga Puja pandal killed 19 people and injured 25, the first in the festival's history. The piece argues it exposes a blind spot in urban technology and crowd safety at high density sites.
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Bhubaneswar Climate Digital Twin, billed as India's first interactive climate risk platform for citizens, was unveiled at the Urban Mobility India conference. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation built it with technical support from GIZ India.
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Civil engineer Bijal Brahmbhatt leads Mahila Housing Trust, an Earthshot Prize 2026 finalist helping low income women who were losing 23 percent of their income to extreme heat, through cool roofs, climate insurance and community led action.
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The first Bangalore Climate Data Week brought climate tech startups, researchers and policymakers together on data tools for urban heat stress, infrastructure gaps and changing water trends. WRI India launched Data Lab Connect during the five day programme.
Read more at The New Indian Express →In News9's Your India column, Santosh Nair explains how drainage, lost lakes and wetlands, and poor groundwater recharge mean a city like Bengaluru can flood in the monsoon and still run short of water months later.
Read more at News9 →Every monsoon, Gurugram's roads flood and traffic crawls. Haryana is now looking to Stockholm for ideas on tackling waterlogging, garbage and basic civic infrastructure in the fast growing corporate hub.
Read more at Open Magazine →Long before air conditioning, buildings handled extreme heat through walls, roofs, courtyards, openings and materials shaped by an understanding of sun and airflow. Parametric Architecture revisits that thermal memory and what it still offers designers today.
Read more at Parametric Architecture →A multi storey building under construction collapsed in Nairobi's Eastleigh district, with rescuers searching for seven people feared trapped in shops already open on its lower floors. The article argues the collapse exposes deeper urban design failures.
Read more at Parametric Architecture →Karachi's built up area grew about 32 percent between 2010 and 2025 to more than 1,400 sq km as farmland and open space disappeared, raising the costs of heat stress, water scarcity and weak infrastructure. Baba Bhit Island faces power outages of up to 18 hours.
Read more at The Express Tribune →Clifton residents and environmentalists walked in protest against construction over Nehr-i-Khayyam, an open drain in Karachi, fearing that covering it will reduce its width and cause flooding. They want work halted until an environmental impact assessment is done.
Read more at Dawn →Ho Chi Minh City plans to invest more than 142 trillion VND, about $5.49 billion, in 87 flood control projects from 2026 to 2030 targeting 50 hotspots, with a focus on root causes and integrated drainage.
Read more at VietnamPlus →Expanding built up areas, ageing drainage and more intense rainfall are combining to overwhelm defences in European cities, as water runs off roads and roofs instead of soaking in, flooding streets, underground transport and homes.
Read more at Innovation News Network →A research paper examines how the Greater Sydney Heat Taskforce formed and co-designed the region's first Heat Smart City Plan, using participatory action research to explore wider challenges in governing urban climate risk.
Read more at PreventionWeb →North Las Vegas has launched its first Urban Forestry Community Survey, open online until 31 October, to guide a long term plan to plant 35,000 trees by 2051 and add shade to neighbourhoods.
Read more at FOX5 Vegas →Indonesian experts say urban heat needs integrated handling across housing, spatial planning, health services and disaster policy. Local initiatives exist but face coordination and financing problems and are not yet built into cross sector policy.
Read more at VOI →The Seattle Social Housing Developer board will build around 20 mixed income homes in the Central District, its first project, and says it expects to own 1,000 homes by the end of next year.
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Robotic construction company ICON, known for 3D printing homes and buildings, announced last week that it has raised a $200 million Series D round, Tectonic reports. ICON builds homes and other structures using large scale robotic 3D printing.
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Construction Dive rounds up six contech companies that raised a combined $154 million in recent funding rounds, as builders and owners turn to AI tools for workforce management, accounting and water monitoring on their projects.
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Mach9 started in 2021 building faster, cheaper hardware for civil engineering visual inspections, then concluded that hardware was not the bottleneck. It has now raised $34 million after pivoting to AI powered CAD software, TechCrunch reports.
Read more at TechCrunch →Origin emerged from stealth with $20 million and a robot that applies compound, sands and primes walls on construction sites. It plans larger pilots, though its speed claims and economics are not yet independently documented.
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Accenture has acquired Avicado, a construction technology consultancy, adding it to Accenture Construct to expand its digital and systems consulting capabilities to help owners of construction projects. Avicado is headquartered in Miami.
Read more at Accenture Newsroom →MARC, an AI platform that helps institutional real estate owners find and streamline operating costs across their portfolios, raised a $5 million seed round and plans to use it to expand in New York and beyond.
Read more at Commercial Observer →London startup Atlian, which builds AI software for construction insurance brokers, raised an undisclosed pre seed round led by Fuel Ventures, with angels including Metaswitch co-founder Chris Mairs. Founder James Buckley-Thorp previously started a life insurance firm.
Read more at Coverager →Preconstruction platform Zebel launched AI Bid Review, which reads subcontractor bids in any format, shows estimators where every number came from and flags missing scope, saving about a week of manual bid entry per project.
Read more at Construction Owners →Telangana has launched a Green Skills and Applied AI Centre in Hyderabad with Microsoft, the 1M1B Foundation and MeitY Startup Hub, to develop young talent for green jobs and support innovation in emerging technology.
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First year students at the Yale School of Architecture have completed a two family home in New Haven's Fair Haven Heights through the Jim Vlock Building Project, a tradition since 1967 of designing and building homes for residents who might struggle to afford one.
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The AIA and Deltek Architecture Billings Index fell to 44.7 in September from 47.2 in August, as billings weakened across much of the industry, though inquiries into new projects grew modestly, with that index at 53.2.
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Nearly four years after 65 practices joined London's Architecture and Urbanism framework, several say it has brought almost no work. Nimtim Architects co-founder Tim O'Callaghan says his firm has invoiced £0 in fees from it to date.
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A majority of designers, architects and operations staff at New York firm Dattner Architects are seeking to unionise with the International Association of Machinists, saying they are acting out of pride in their firm and profession.
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Dozens of panels on architecture, design and technology at MIT Future Fest gave a public debut to the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, an 1894 castle renovated by Diller Scofidio and Renfro as the new home of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.
Read more at Metropolis →Earth Shed, designed by assistant professor Erin Besler of Besler and Sons, is on view at the Princeton University School of Architecture until 4 December. The installation is made mainly from soil displaced from construction sites.
Read more at The Architect's Newspaper →AIA Los Angeles and Architecture for Communities Los Angeles return with 2x8, a student exhibition, design challenge and scholarship fund. This year's RECLAIM edition connects 12 California architecture schools with the city's design and construction community.
Read more at Archinect →TU Delft announced the nominees and winners of its Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Awards 2025 to 2026 at a ceremony on 19 October, recognising graduation projects that put circular design into practice.
Read more at TU Delft →Hindustan Times says India's growing data centre, sustainability and digital construction sectors are opening new career paths for architecture and engineering graduates beyond the traditional design firm or site job.
Read more at Hindustan Times →SCI-Arc is accepting fall 2027 applications across its NAAB accredited B.Arch and M.Arch programmes. Applicants who submit by the 15 January 2027 priority deadline are automatically considered for merit scholarships.
Read more at Archinect →MIT Architecture is hiring a Belluschi Fellow in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a position designed to support early career architects and designers in advancing emerging research, according to Archinect's weekly job highlights series.
Read more at Archinect →Volunteers from Frankfurt's Ernst May Society are racing to rescue original 1920s Frankfurt Kitchens from housing estate flats before renovations remove them, preserving a fitted kitchen that changed the history of design.
Read more at Architectural Digest →Louis H. Sullivan's A System of Architectural Ornament is being reissued in its first full scale facsimile edition, with an illustrated reader's guide, due for release on 10 November 2026.
Read more at Architecture Lab →Designboom looks at buildings designed to shelter parts of the natural world as habitats disappear, starting with Kew Gardens' cycad Encephalartos woodii, which has lived under glass for more than a century.
Read more at designboom →Parametric Architecture revisits 15 utopian architecture projects that stayed on paper as drawings, models and manifestos, imagining how people could live if existing limits were removed, and why the idea of a place that is both good and nowhere still matters.
Read more at Parametric Architecture →The University of Montenegro's Faculty of Architecture held the first international conference on Architectural Education in the 21st Century, with plenary speakers from leading universities and more than 80 authors taking part.
Read more at Vijesti →Pouya Nasr's award winning ReNest proposal draws on the vernacular Kapar structures of southern Iran to explore how local materials and collective making could help a school community in Minab recover.
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