What started out as a school project has become a full-blown enterprise for three Finlandia University graphic design students.
“We started researching urbanwear clothing and the more we looked into it, the more we wanted to go further with it,” explained Samantha Voigt, one of the designers behind Goofy Foot, a new line of clothing [...]

The City Council of New Orleans recently gave thanks to the Kentucky-New Orleans Architecture Studio (KNOA), presenting the studio with a key to the city and an official proclamation of appreciation for their work on restoration and re-design efforts of Mickey Markey Park in Bywater, a neighborhood in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
While a [...]

Taking another step toward building the nation’s tallest skyscraper in Chicago, the project’s developer on Wednesday announced a design team that includes a veteran Chicago architectural firm and the structural engineers who helped shape the Malaysian twin towers that took the world’s tallest building title from Sears Tower.
The developer, Garret Kelleher, executive chairman of Dublin-based [...]

A team of faculty members in the School of Architecture and Planning have been awarded a $553,045 research grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to develop educational materials that use advanced media to teach important building principles to architecture students.
The funded project, “Building Literacy: The Integration [...]

The Jerde Partnership, an internationally acclaimed architecture, planning and design firm, today announced that Thomas Lehn has joined as vice president and design principal. Lehn, a veteran interior designer with expertise in creating branded environments, will lead an interdisciplinary design group to extend Jerde’s signature experiential design into interior realms. The group, composed of interior, [...]

Architects have a lot to answer for, if you ask Eugene Tsui.
And the Victoria International Arts Symposium asked him.
Dressed in a gold brocade suit and floor-length tasselled cape, the renowned California architect who designed the Strait of Gibraltar floating bridge and some of the most organic structures ever built, not only thinks outside the box, [...]

At 55, local architect James Robbins isn’t thinking about retiring anytime soon, but he recently made a lifestyle change with those golden years in mind.
Robbins, founder and director of design for San Diego-based Robbins Jorgensen Christopher, sold his home in Rancho Bernardo last year and purchased a two-bedroom, two-bath condominium in downtown’s luxury high-rise development [...]

Not many folks would consider an evening with the Charlottesville Board of Zoning Appeals a hot date, but there could be some real fireworks at the October 21 session, as two of the year’s most controversial planning issues go before the Board.
First up is Little High Neighborhood Association prez Mark Haskins, who’s been battling [...]

Zaha Hadid has created spectacular buildings all over the world – but never in Britain. As her first UK work is unveiled, she talks to Jonathan Glancey about the trials of being a woman architect, and why her new designs are inspired by the swamplands of southern Iraq
In the cavernous meeting room [...]

One of Japan’s leading architects has been selected to design a new home for the art museum and film archives at UC Berkeley.
After a 9-month search, Toyo Ito & Associates was chosen as the architect of the high-profile project in downtown Berkeley. Ito — whose work is marked by a subdued but imaginative, modern look [...]

Toyo Ito, Tokyo’s acclaimed experimental architect, got the job of designing the new home of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in part because he impressed university officials with his vision of how to blend a major cultural building into the life of a city.
The museum, to be built in downtown Berkeley [...]

They came, they watched, they listened, they noshed, and for the most part, they liked.
The occasion was the beginning of what promises to be a full-court press by UC officials and boosters as they seek funds and approval for “a place where ideas run free and wild,” a $120 million complex in the heart of [...]