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A cruise terminal is slated for Buffalo's Outer Harbor
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (312+ words) Cruise ships through the Great Lakes have long skimmed Lake Erie between Toronto and Cleveland, without stopping in Buffalo. A forthcoming cruise terminal by Li Ro-Hill will offer a new link on the network, and plug Buffalo into the Great…...
Quiet, discreet, low-glare lighting design can make interiors feel better
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (260+ words) Inevitably, one of our main fields of operation'our canvas'is the ceiling. We often think about walls or floors, but in most cases the ceiling is our main focus. We ask: What it can hold, what it can hide, and what…...
New Yorkers can now vote on a new monument for Billie Holiday
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (435+ words) The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (NYCDCA) is leading an initiative to build a permanent public monument dedicated to Billie Holiday, the jazz artist and Civil Rights Movement champion who sang Strange Fruit. Today, as part of its…...
Nile Greenberg fills Edith Farnsworth House with the noise it tried to keep out
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (272+ words) The Edith Farnsworth House, in Plano, Illinois, is famous as a pristine, silent, perfect object. But in reality it has always been a leaky, gendered, and contested mess. New York architect Nile Greenberg has decided to turn the volume up....
April Architecture Billings Index report a slight drop
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (238+ words) March's 49. 8 Architecture Billings Index (ABI) sparked hope that a turn around in billing conditions was imminent. But that isn't the case. The AIA shared April's report this week and the score dropped to 48. 3. AIA said "billings at firms were essentially…...
Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines to design pavilion in Houston's Freedmen's Town
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (36+ words) Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines Architecture + Design have been selected to design a new cultural pavilion in Houston's Freedmen's Town'a historic community built by formerly enslaved Africans on the Emancipation Trail....
Welcome Projects and Boyd Design to renovate a midcentury office building for the Wende Museum
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (584+ words) A repository of Cold War history, the Wende Museum covers a lot of ground. It has in its collection everything from the personal papers of GDR chairman Erich Honecker" to ephemera that speaks to Soviet hippy culture. A recent exhibition…...
Dattner Architects equips a sanitation garage with glass, aluminum, and precast concrete
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (393+ words) Brooklyn 3 nearly spans an entire city block, from the corner of Nostrand and Park to the intersection of Flushing and Warsoff, marking the boundary between Bedford-Stuyvesant's residential and industrial zones. Each face of the garage was constructed to respond to…...
Float Studios references Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for office
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (202+ words) The Architect's Newspaper What if an office was designed for working less? At the new office for technology company Antiwork, toiling is, as the brand's name suggests, not the point. Instead, the company's commitment to working less by working smarter…...
Amtrak selects Halmar, PAU, ASTM as Penn Station master developer
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (283+ words) Amtrak announced the master developer that will lead New York Penn Station's renovation: Halmar International, a New York'based heavy civil construction management firm, per a statement." The masterplan by Halmar, PAU, and ASTM will bring a new grand entrance on…...