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Museums

The Tampa Museum of Art will soon undergo a $110 million expansion

In Tampa, Fla., the Tampa Museum of Art will soon undergo a 77,904-sf Centennial Expansion project. The museum plans to reach its $110 million fundraising goal by late 2024 or early 2025 and then break ground. Designed by Weiss/Manfredi, and with construction manager The Beck Group, the expansion will redefine the museum’s surrounding site.



Reconstruction & Renovation

Movement to protect historic buildings raises sharp criticism

While the movement to preserve historic buildings has widespread support, it also has some sharp critics with well-funded opposition groups springing up in recent years. Some opponents are linked to the Stand Together Foundation, founded and bankrolled by the Koch family’s conservative philanthropic organization, according to a column in Governing magazine.

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Designers

Architects | Oct 24, 2016

Winners of the 2016 AAP American Architecture Prize announced

The AAP recognizes the most outstanding architecture worldwide across three disciplines: architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture.

Architects | Oct 21, 2016

The AIA Innovation Award Recipients have been selected

The program honors projects that highlight collaboration between design and construction teams to create better process efficiencies and overall costs savings.

Architects | Oct 21, 2016

NASA Orbit Pavilion to debut at The Huntington Library at the end of October

The pavilion uses sound to represent the movement of the International Space Station and 19 earth satellites.

Higher Education | Oct 20, 2016

Designing innovative campuses for tomorrow's students

Planning for places that foster effective innovation is still an emerging process, but the constant pressure on universities to do so continues from two of their key institutional constituencies—students and employers, writes Perkins+Will's Ken Higa and Josh Vel.

Data Centers | Gensler | Oct 14, 2016

Where data centers meet design

As technology continues to evolve, we have to simultaneously adapt and help our clients think beyond the short term, writes Gensler's Martin Gollwitzer.

Architects | Oct 13, 2016

Dallas architects recognized at 2016 AIA Dallas Built Design Awards

Six Texas-based projects lauded for design excellence.

Designers | Oct 12, 2016

Perkins Eastman and EwingCole co-publish new white paper examining the benefits and challenges of design research

The survey’s findings, combined with input from the EDRA conference, informed the content produced for “Where Are We Now?”

Architects | Oct 11, 2016

A good imagination and a pile of junk: How maker culture is influencing the way AEC firms solve problems

“Fail” is no longer a dirty four-letter word: for maker culture, it has become a crucial stop along the way

Architects | PDR | Oct 4, 2016

Video blog: How to future-proof your workplace

Larry Lander, a Principal with PDR and a registered architect, discusses how modularity can improve a workplace for the business and the individual.

Architects | Sep 30, 2016

Ugly soviet parking garage takes on appearance of a cascading waterfall

Architect Ignas Lukaskas worked in conjunction with Vieta and the Vilnius Street Art festival to transform the building.

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