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Future of IM Pei-designed Dallas City Hall “remains uncertain”

November 24, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The Dallas city government has voted to explore relocating and selling the brutalist city hall designed by architect IM Pei, placing the building under increased threat of demolition. Earlier this month, Dallas City Council voted to review the status of the 1970s building as the government’s home. The city manager was tasked with determining the

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Mississippi Museum of Art to preserve Frank Lloyd Wright house in Jackson

November 21, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson has purchased a nearby Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, with plans to restore and maintain the property for museum visitors. The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) confirmed the purchase this month, and said it was “inspired” by the success of other institutions such as the Crystal Bridges Museum

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“Iconic and unusual” Vaillancourt Fountain set to be dismantled

November 19, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The San Francisco Arts Commission has voted to dismantle and store a 1970s concrete fountain in San Francisco designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt. The city of San Francisco’s arts agency made the decision to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain following reports that it posed a “an immediate and serious hazard”. Made of twisting, cubic bands of

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SHoP Architects completes FIT building with “origami-like folded metal panels”

November 14, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio SHoP Architects has completed an academic building for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City that contains a subterranean sewing lab viewable from the street and a backside atrium that links to a neighbouring building. At 10 storeys high, the Joyce F Brown Academic Building is named after the school’s acting

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Adjaye Associates designs Studio Museum in Harlem based on “familiar local architectural tropes”

November 10, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has unveiled the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, ahead of its opening later this week. Located on the busy Dr Martin Luther King Boulevard, the Studio Museum in Harlem replaces a former bank building on the same site, which was converted in 1982 to house the museum’s art collection.

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Trump fires remaining members of the Commission of Fine Arts

October 29, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump fired the six remaining members of independent federal agency the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architects and urban planners meant to review projects such as the planned triumphal arch. Those who were fired were architects Bruce Redman Becker, Peter D Cook, William J Lenihan, landscape architect Lisa

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Photos reveal progress on largest terminal at John F Kennedy airport

October 29, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Photography from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has revealed progress on the new international terminal at John F Kennedy International Airport, part of a wider project to transform the complex. Designed by design-build team AECOM Tishman and Gensler, the new Terminal One is set to replace former Terminals 2 and 3

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Buildings become “dance partners” at Snøhetta’s Dartmouth arts centre extension

October 28, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

International architecture studio Snøhetta has completed an expansion to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, fitting two new cubic volumes onto an existing 1960s building. Located on the Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire, the Hopkins Center for the Arts (The Hop) is a sprawling complex that serves as the school’s arts

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps Cartier Miami in glass for “sense of mystique”

October 28, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed an expansion to the Miami flagship store of jewellery brand Cartier, which has a bulbous facade informed by a vintage Cartier piece. Located in Miami’s Design District, on the corner of NE 39th St and the walking corridor Paseo Ponti, the building has a wraparound facade

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“Metabolic systems” inform modular Guadalajara store by Xpan

October 17, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local art collective Xpan has created a store in Guadalajara lined with modular aluminium shelving that can be rearranged and shifted depending on the needs of the space. Located in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana neighbourhood, Espacio.gdl is a commercial space designed and built by Xpan, a local studio that creates a broad array of work such

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