The completed building is one of the most anticipated US museum openings of the decade, combining MAD's sculptural envelope with an 11-acre Studio-MLA landscape. Member previews begin September 5, making press access and on-site coverage urgent.
Location
One Lucas Plaza, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California
Organizations
MAD Architects — Design architect; Studio-MLA — Landscape architect; Stantec — Executive architect; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art — Client and operator
This Miami River project is an immediately relevant local test of public-space design for sea-level rise, high tides and stormwater. The city intends the WEDG-verified scheme to establish a template for future municipal waterfront projects.
Location
José Martí Park, 362 SW 4th Street, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
City of Miami Office of Capital Improvements — Project delivery and public client; City of Miami Department of Parks and Recreation — Park stakeholder; Miami Forever Bond — Project funding; Florida Inland Navigation District — Grant funding; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — Grant funding; Waterfront Alliance — WEDG verification organization
A 150,000-square-foot headquarters commitment gives Related’s speculative Midtown tower a major anchor and materially advances one of the Plaza District’s few ground-up office developments. The story offers a useful test of demand for premium post-pandemic workplaces.
Location
625 Madison Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
Organizations
Related Companies — Developer; Foster + Partners — Architect; Gensler — Architect; General Atlantic — Anchor tenant
A major South Florida design reveal and MVRDV’s first project with Ecuadorian developer Uribe Schwarzkopf in Miami. Its mid-market residential mix, public plaza, creative live-work units and unusually porous massing merit immediate local review beyond conventional luxury-development coverage.
Location
NW 5th Avenue and NW 32nd Street, Wynwood Norte, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
MVRDV — Design architect; Uribe Schwarzkopf — Developer, client and interior architect; KKAD (Kobi Karp) — Co-architect and architect of record; Kimley-Horn — Landscape architect; JALRW — MEP engineer; Rosita Hurtado — Property owner and future commercial tenant
The project offers a compact adaptive-reuse case study in which Lisbon’s port-industrial morphology is translated into three homes organized by courtyards, retained masonry, and a newly legible metal structure.
The project is a convincing piece of temporary cultural architecture rather than a novelty installation: heat, ventilation, bench geometry, stage lighting, sound and audience circulation have been designed as one performance system. Its demountable construction also proposes a touring model for unconventional arts infrastructure.
Location
Sauna Theatre at Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Organizations
Studio Three Sixty — Architectural and performance-venue designer; Sauna Sessions Arts Club — Client, co-designer and operator; Lucy Osborne — Lead designer and co-founder; James Grieve — Co-founder and artistic collaborator; Summerhall Arts — Festival host and site partner
This active South Florida procurement concerns a long-delayed museum at a nationally significant Black recreation and civil-rights landscape. Its resilience requirements, elevated construction, public programming and cultural mandate make the design-build selection worth close local scrutiny.
Location
Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, Virginia Key, Miami, Florida
Organizations
City of Miami Department of Procurement — Procurement authority; Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Trust — Site and cultural partner; City of Miami District 5 Office — Public-sector project partner
A noteworthy Mexican cultural project in a region dominated by private resort development. Its below-grade public gallery uses architecture, desert climate and coastal light as active curatorial conditions rather than treating the building as a sealed exhibition container.
Location
Ánima Village, Cabo del Sol Tourist Corridor, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Organizations
Sordo Madaleno — Architect; SOMA — Client; Arte Abierto — Client and cultural operator; Artec Creo Lab — Collaborator and adviser; Abraham Cruzvillegas — Opening installation artist
A newly documented Shigeru Ban hospitality project uses contrasting coastal and mountain façades, a monumental timber entrance, and a daylit atrium to turn a medically supported wellness program into an architectural destination.
Location
2942-39 Iwaya, Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Organizations
Shigeru Ban Architects — Architectural design; Pasona Resort Inc. — Developer and operator; Pasona Group Inc. — Parent organization and regional-revitalization sponsor; Nitori Co., Ltd. — Sensor-bed development collaborator; MinebeaMitsumi Inc. — Sensor-bed development collaborator; Kobe University Hospital — Medical-support program collaborator
The station is a substantial low-carbon infrastructure story, combining more than 600,000 reused bricks, engineered timber, improved steel and concrete, a planted roof promenade, transit integration, and an ambitious BREEAM Outstanding target.
Location
Gothenburg Central Station and Centralstaden, Gothenburg, Sweden
Organizations
Jernhusen — Owner and developer of Gothenburg Grand Central; Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter — Architect; Peab — Building contractor; Trafikverket — Developer of the underground Centralen station and West Link infrastructure
BIG’s first completed art museum is a significant new cultural complex that translates the spatial sequencing of Suzhou’s classical gardens into a contemporary pavilion system. Its formal opening converts a long-previewed project into a reportable completed building.
Location
No. 99 You’an Street, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Organizations
Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art — Museum and operator; BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group — Design architect; Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee — Public authority announcing the opening
The Fort Worth project is an unusually consequential adaptive-reuse commission, turning a structure associated with racial terror into a community-governed center for art, education, healing, and reparative justice.
Location
1012 North Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas
Organizations
Transform 1012 N. Main Street — Client and community coalition; Studio Barnes — Design architect; ch_studio — Design architect; The Projects Group — Project management
The new Boston civic venue tests a flexible architectural model for public science communication, combining a prominent Charles River setting with reconfigurable event infrastructure, immersive media, and hybrid broadcasting capabilities.
Location
Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Organizations
Museum of Science, Boston — Owner and operator; William Rawn Associates — Architect; Consigli Construction Co. — Construction manager; Bloomberg Philanthropies — Lead philanthropic supporter
This is a major preservation intervention where architecture, art conservation, desert ecology, accessibility, and the control of natural light must be reconciled without compromising Donald Judd’s site-specific installation.
Location
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Organizations
The Chinati Foundation — Owner and steward; Schaum Architects — Design architect; Getty Conservation Institute — Art conservation partner; Lippincott, LLC — Conservation partner and original artwork fabricator
Bevel is a significant test of whether tall mass-timber commercial construction can move beyond one-off demonstrations into a large speculative workplace project. Its hybrid structural strategy, electrification, water reuse, biodiversity and public-realm agenda make it a strong construction-innovation story despite its preconstruction status.
Location
Corner of 106th Avenue NE and NE 9th Place, downtown Bellevue, Washington
Organizations
Skanska USA Commercial Development — Developer; Mithun — Co-lead architect; Waugh Thistleton Architects — Co-lead architect and engineered-timber specialist
The commission pairs a major contemporary architect with a socially and architecturally significant 1916 campus building. It is an early-stage preservation story with strong potential for interviews about adaptive reuse, accessibility, student life and contemporary intervention in a neo-Gothic setting.
Location
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, Midway Plaisance, Chicago, Illinois
Organizations
Steven Holl Architects — Lead architectural designer; University of Chicago — Client and owner; JLK Architects — Historic-preservation architect; Workshop Architects — Student-life programming and campus-operations planning
The first steel column is a significant construction milestone for an award-winning Brazilian research campus that combines elevated lightweight pavilions, student housing and ambitious Atlantic Forest restoration measures.
Location
Rua Barão de Oliveira Castro, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organizations
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) — Client and operator; Andrade Morettin Arquitetos — Architect; Brazilian Ministry of Education — Public funding partner; Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation — Public funding partner
The transformation is a consequential preservation case: the practice founded by the building’s original architect is adapting a highly recognizable postmodern civic structure into Google offices while replacing its failing envelope and substantially changing its public image.
Location
James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois
Organizations
Jahn — Architect; original building designer and renovation architect; Google — Owner and future occupant
A substantial institutional housing project addressing California’s acute student-housing shortage while targeting LEED Platinum performance. The design combines coastal climate response, all-electric systems and unusually high density without relying on a single megastructure.
Location
East Campus, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Organizations
University of California, Santa Barbara — Client and campus owner; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill — Design architect; Mithun — Collaborating architect; PCL Construction Services — Construction services; Arup — Engineering consultant; Tom Leader Studio — Landscape architecture collaborator
The newly documented Brazilian interior is a concise retail-design case study: monochromatic architecture, diffuse overhead light, and gallery-like presentation are used to slow circulation and elevate specialist books within a busy shopping center.
Location
MorumbiShopping, Avenida Roque Petroni Júnior 1089, São Paulo, Brazil
Organizations
ARCHITECTS OFFICE — Architecture and interior design; Livraria da Vila — Client and operator; Felco — Project photography
The imminent occupation of a monumental 1890s warehouse by MIT's architecture and planning community is a major adaptive-reuse milestone, combining historic preservation, new institutional space, public galleries, studios, and interdisciplinary design research.
Location
134 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Organizations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Client and institution; Diller Scofidio + Renfro — Design architect; Leers Weinzapfel Associates — Associate architect; Reed Hilderbrand — Landscape architect; Silman Associates — Structural engineer; Altieri — MEP engineer; Tillotson Design Associates — Lighting designer; Atelier Ten — Sustainability consultant; Front Inc. — Facade consultant
This is a timely New York interiors opening in a 1928 building, with a design strategy that treats a 205-room hotel as an elegantly curated townhouse rather than a conventional Midtown property. It offers a focused hospitality story about domesticity, art and material warmth at commercial scale.
Location
70 Park Avenue, New York, New York, United States
Organizations
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants — Hotel brand and operator; IHG Hotels & Resorts — Parent hospitality company; Busta Studio — Interior designer
Updated imagery and the move from design into development make this a consequential US public-realm story: a deteriorating seven-acre elevated civic platform is being converted into a planted, accessible connector between downtown Louisville and the Ohio River.
Location
The Belvedere, 500 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Organizations
Louisville Metro Government — Client and public project sponsor; Heatherwick Studio — Lead design studio; KNBA Architects — Local architecture partner; PLC Management — Project management; Whittenberg Construction — Construction and estimating partner
Completion of the 450-metre underground platforms is a substantial construction milestone for WilkinsonEyre’s planned London transport superhub and provides a timely entry point for evaluating the station’s engineering, passenger experience and surrounding public realm.
Location
Old Oak Common, West London, United Kingdom
Organizations
HS2 Ltd — Public railway project owner; WilkinsonEyre — Lead architect; WSP — Engineering and design collaborator; Balfour Beatty Vinci SYSTRA joint venture — Station construction partner; Expanded — Platform construction subcontractor; Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture — London tunnels contractor; Network Rail — Existing rail-network integration
The permanent memorial is a nationally significant work of public remembrance in South Florida. Final approval materially changes the design selected through years of consultation, creating an urgent story about memorial architecture, value engineering, public process and disagreements with victims’ families.
Location
88th Street street-end park near Collins Avenue, Surfside, Florida
Organizations
Town of Surfside — Client, owner and approving public authority; Champlain Towers South Memorial Committee — Community and family advisory body; Keith Engineering — Memorial design and engineering consultant referenced by the Town
