San Francisco start-up GRU Space has released plans for a hotel on the moon clad in lunar regolith bricks that it claims will be “the first ever permanent off-Earth structure built in history” if completed. The GRU lunar hotel concept would be established in phases, according to Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU Space) with the
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Architecture studio HKS has completed a 41-storey residential skyscraper in Salt Lake City, which is now the tallest building in Utah and contains an LED crown that displays current levels of air pollution. The building is located in downtown Salt Lake City and works to “help protect the community by informing them of good or
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Architect Shalom Baranes has presented an updated, “more-graceful” design of the proposed White House ballroom and suggested adding a storey to the West Wing for symmetry. Baranes explained that, after taking over the project from original architect McCrery Architects, his studio will build upon the previous scheme. Baranes’ plans include placing a 22,000-square-foot (2,043-square-metre) ballroom
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Architecture studio Beyer Blinder Belle has completed The Brook in Downtown Brooklyn, a 52-storey mixed-use skyscraper that was informed by historic Brooklyn architecture. The Brook sits in a triangular site next to the Brooklyn Tower at the confluence of DeKalb Avenue, Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street, in one of “the most prominent and complex intersections
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Local studio Commoncraft has used a cantilevered volume to curve 545 Metropolitan over its neighbours, navigating the narrow Brooklyn site in order to provide more floor space. Located on Williamsburg’s busy Metropolitan Avenue just across from the Lorimer L subway station, 545 Metropolitan is a six-storey mixed-use building that contains apartments, ground-level commercial space and
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The first major traffic congestion pricing in the US, which rolled out a year ago today in New York City, has been considered a success according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority and New York governor Kathy Hochul. Congestion pricing – known formally as the Central Business District Tolling Program – was implemented in January 2025.
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New York City developments designed by teams including SHoP Architects, HKS and Perkins Eastman have been recommended to receive casino licenses, beating out a BIG project and others. At a meeting yesterday, the Gaming Facility Location Board recommended that two casino projects in Queens and one in the Bronx receive licenses from the Gaming Commission,
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New York design studio Office of Tangible Space has completed a pole dance studio in New York City with burgundy velvet curtains, a shoe rack for heels and lighting that’s optimised for self-recording. Goodside Studios is located in the Lower East Side as an “inviting yet edgy” environment for dancers who’d like to explore the
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Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has revealed designs for the Biblioteca dos Saberes in Rio de Janeiro, which features perforated facades and a cylinder that rises from its centre. Biblioteca dos Saberes will be located in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood and across from architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Sambódromo parade ground, where the Rio Carnival takes place
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Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has revealed designs for the Biblioteca dos Saberes in Rio de Janeiro, which features perforated facades and a cylinder that rises from its centre. Biblioteca dos Saberes will be located in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood and across from architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Sambódromo parade ground, where the Rio Carnival takes place
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