The fresh appointment gives a major North Texas arena and mixed-use district a confirmed design lead just as Plano advances a public vote on venue-related taxes. The transit, financing, suburban-development, and hockey-specific design questions merit an early interview.
Location
The Shops at Willow Bend, Plano, Texas, United States
Organizations
Dallas Stars — Team, prospective arena tenant, and project partner; HNTB — Lead design firm; City of Plano — Public-sector project and prospective arena-ownership partner; Centennial — District development partner; Levin Holdings — District development partner; Cawley Partners — District development partner
A major intervention in a 1916 neo-Gothic campus landmark, backed by a $50 million gift. The commission creates a useful editorial case study in balancing infrastructure upgrades, accessibility, expanded student life and potentially new architectural elements with historic preservation.
Location
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Organizations
University of Chicago — Client and building owner; Steven Holl Architects — Lead architect; JLK Architects — Historic preservation architect; Workshop Architects — Student-life programming and operations planning
The imminent start of demolition makes this a newly material Coconut Grove civic project. It is a strong local opportunity to examine public investment, neighborhood recreation, community-informed design, and construction impacts in West Coconut Grove.
Location
Armbrister Park, 4000 Grand Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133
Organizations
City of Miami Office of Capital Improvements — Owner and capital-project administrator
The completed project pairs a major international practice with a local studio on deeply affordable housing beside Golden Gate Park. Its mixed resident population and courtyard-based organization make it a useful case study in dignified, high-density public-interest housing.
Location
730 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, California
Organizations
OMA New York — Design architect, led by partner Jason Long; Y.A. studio — Local architecture collaborator; Chinatown Community Development Center — Client and affordable-housing developer; Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation — Client and affordable-housing developer
The 160-home project is OMA’s first completed 100-percent affordable housing development in the United States and combines permanent affordability, supportive populations, mixed uses and substantial communal outdoor space at a prominent edge of Golden Gate Park.
Location
730 Stanyan Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California
Organizations
OMA — Design architect, led by partner Jason Long; Y.A. Studio — Local architect and design collaborator; Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation — Co-developer; Chinatown Community Development Center — Co-developer
The award of a corridor-wide design contract turns one of Miami-Dade’s most consequential rail-to-trail proposals into an active implementation project, with major implications for mobility, shade, public space and neighborhood connectivity.
Location
Former Florida East Coast Railway corridor from SW 80th Street to approximately NW 7th Street, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Organizations
Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces — Public owner and lead agency; Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. — Final-design consultant; Friends of the Ludlam Trail — Community advocacy partner
The newly started project turns Miami's hurricane, shading and cooling requirements into a distinctive façade system, making it a strong local case study in climate-responsive commercial architecture rather than another generic office development.
Location
95 NE 40th Street, Miami Design District, Miami, Florida
Organizations
Snøhetta — Lead design architect, landscape architect and interior architect; Raycliff Capital — Client and developer; Miami Design District Associates — Client and development partner; CUBE 3 — Architect of record; Savino Miller — Landscape architect of record; McNamara Salvia — Structural engineer; MGE — MEPFP engineer; FRONT — Façade consultant; Langan — Civil engineer
The recently opened Argentine museum unites six monumental Lola Mora sculptures in a purpose-designed home and represents César Pelli's final building. Its net-zero strategy, local materials, wind tower, bridge, and Yungas forest setting justify a substantial architecture feature.
Location
Víctor Hugo 51, Alto La Viña, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
Organizations
Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy — Client and public project owner; Pelli Clarke & Partners — Design architect; Arturo Beccar Varela y Asociados — Architect of record; Balmori Associates — Landscape design; Cappiello + Partners — Lighting design; Alberto H. Fainstein — Structural engineering; EGF – Estudio Grinberg — Mechanical engineering
The recently opened center is a major Argentine cultural project and one of César Pelli’s final works. It brings six monumental sculptures by Lola Mora into a purpose-built, climate-conscious setting while using local stone, timber and metalwork to connect a globally prominent architect with Jujuy’s landscape and production economy.
Location
Víctor Hugo 51, Alto La Viña, San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
Organizations
Government of Jujuy — Client, funder and operator; Pelli Clarke & Partners — Architect; project initiated under César Pelli; Samsung Argentina — Technology collaborator for building and visitor systems
The completed stadium is one of the largest current US sports projects and offers a technically relevant cold-climate design story, including a steep seating bowl, partial canopy, wind mitigation, and extensive snow-management systems.
Location
Orchard Park, Erie County, New York, United States
Organizations
Buffalo Bills — Owner and operator; Populous — Architect; New York State — Public funding and development partner; Erie County — Public funding and development partner
An immediate South Florida development opportunity with a September 3 submission deadline. The city-owned site and combined design, finance, development and management brief could produce a consequential model for mixed-income workforce housing in an expensive, transit-accessible municipality.
Location
5890 SW 69th Street, South Miami, Florida
Organizations
City of South Miami — Property owner, project sponsor and procurement authority
The Argentine municipal project combines adaptive reuse, audiovisual preservation, public cinema, digital restoration, education, and artist residencies—an unusually complete civic program built around regional moving-image heritage.
Location
Centro de Experimentación Audiovisual, Colón 1133, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organizations
Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Owner and operator; Dirección General de Arquitectura, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Architecture; Secretaría de Planificación, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Planning and project collaboration
