Architecture News
Architecture news moves fast, and this category keeps you on top of it. illustrarch reports on new projects, competition results, industry shifts, and notable openings from around the world. Check back regularly for clear, concise updates on the buildings and ideas everyone in the field is talking about.
Brooklyn Museum’s $48 Million Energy Retrofit Aims to Cut Emissions by 57 Percent
New York City is replacing the Brooklyn Museum's ageing steam plant, adding a solar carport and electrifying humidity control in a $48 million...
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Studio KO Rebuilds Paris’s Bus Palladium Nightclub as a Five Star Hotel
The 1965 Pigalle club is back as a hotel by Studio KO: a new six storey building with cork-walled rooms, a restaurant lined...
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WORKac Hangs a Lecture Hall Inside Cornell’s Restored Sibley Dome
At Cornell, WORKac has restored the 1902 Sibley Dome and suspended a 114 seat lecture hall from it, with fritted glass piers that...
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Edinburgh Approves Hotel Plan for Basil Spence’s Scottish Widows Headquarters
Seven of the twelve hexagonal modules of the 1970s Scottish Widows offices will become a hotel; the other five are being demolished for...
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Foster + Partners Completes Agravitas, a 55 Metre Bridge Gallery Above the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Agravitas, a 55 metre steel gallery by Foster + Partners and Luis María Uriarte, sits on V-shaped columns above the museum's 1945 and...
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National Trust Launches $10M Historic Preservation Defense Fund
National Trust CEO Brent Leggs launched a $10M, three year fund to fight rollbacks of historic preservation protections.
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French Culture Ministry Says Lutetia Wall May Mark Paris’s Birthplace
A charred wall found beneath Paris's Île de la Cité may confirm the city's origins as Gallic Lutetia, France's culture ministry says.
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Charlotte Perriand’s Built-In Interiors Survive in Édouard Albert’s 1960 Paris Tower
A high-floor apartment in Édouard Albert's listed 1960 tower in Paris's 13th arrondissement keeps Charlotte Perriand's built-in storage, kitchen and furniture.
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