The American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded New York-based Peter Marino Architect PLLC the 2007 AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture for the design of the Louis Vuitton boutique at the Landmark building in Hong Kong. The AIA Institute Honor Awards recognize works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. The [...]

The Irvine Co. is in talks with award-winning international architects Pei Cobb Freed & Partners to design a new high-rise in downtown San Diego – perhaps signaling the company’s intention to add a landmark tower to the city’s skyline.
While the Orange County real estate giant has not signed a contract with Pei Cobb – the [...]

Two years after taking over as executive chairwoman and leading a turnaround, Vanessa Castagna will leave Mervyns on Feb. 1.
Cerberus Capital Management LP, the New York hedge fund that purchased Mervyns from Target Corp. in 2004, said Thursday that Rick Leto, president and chief merchandising officer for Mervyns, will take over day-to-day management of [...]

On paper, it looks like the beginning of a joke: What do Prague, Barcelona and Dusseldorf have in common with Lehi?
The answer is legendary architect Frank Gehry.
And while jaws may drop at an announcement that Gehry will soon be designing an urban-inspired community in northern Lehi, it’s definitely serious [...]

A Tasmanian business has beaten companies from around Australia to win an innovation award at the ‘G’day USA’ promotion in New York.
Launceston-based Autech has developed colour selection software which enables people to see what a room would look like painted in a chosen colour scheme.
The company’s prize includes public relations services from a US agency [...]

This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]

“Gritty Brits: New London Architecture” presents the work of six young firms and opens Friday at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center with a talk by African-born London architect David Adjaye. Heinz curator Raymund Ryan organized the exhibit, which comes with a 120-page catalog and runs through June 3.
The six firms — Adjaye/Associates, [...]

Cabela’s may have placed Lehi on the map for outdoor enthusiasts, but a project designed by America’s architect du jour Frank Gehry could place the city on the world stage.
To be announced Friday, the mixed-use project — which includes high-end shopping and restaurants, a wakeboard lake, a five-star hotel and convention center, and a residential [...]

For Daniel Libeskind, the master planner of Ground Zero in New York, architecture and controversy go hand-in-hand.
Libeskind’s design was chosen for the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site of the former World Trade Center destroyed by the September 11 attacks in 2001, but the rebuilding of the Lower Manhattan area has been dogged for nearly five years by [...]

Skanska has secured the contract to refurbish the Roosevelt Island Bridge in New York City. The contract amount, totaling USD 86.5 M, approximately SEK 635 M, is included in order bookings for the fourth quarter of 2006. The customer is the New York City Department of Transportation.
The Roosevelt Island Bridge, constructed in 1955, is a [...]

Seeking to fill the void left by the departure of its first full-time curator, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has named Gregory K. Dreicer as vice president of exhibitions and programs.
Dreicer, the founder and director of a New York City-based exhibition design firm called Chicken & Egg Public Projects, starts next Monday.
“I like the fact [...]

Today, the crossroads of business and design are intersecting at an unprecedented rate, as leading organizations see design as a tool for innovation, competitiveness and growth. Graduate business programs — such as the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley — are integrating design into their curriculums, top business publications are [...]