The large U.S. gathering for green building professionals begins tomorrow, creating a timely opportunity for editorial attendance, interviews and coverage of decarbonization, resilience, materials and building technology.
Location
Javits Center, New York, New York, United States
Organizations
Informa Connect — Event organizer; U.S. Green Building Council — Presenting partner
The current U.S. festival offers time-sensitive editorial access to architecture tours, heritage programming, professional discussions and home visits, with several ticketed events beginning September 12.
Location
Multiple venues across San Francisco, California, United States
Organizations
Center for Architecture + Design — Festival host; AIA San Francisco — Collaborating organization and ticketing administrator
A timely example of architecture reconstructed as ephemeral public memory: 2,977 individual drone lights formed the Twin Towers at a claimed 1:1 scale while connecting New York’s annual Tribute in Light to the THINK team’s unrealized World Cultural Center proposal. The official credits also sharpen Dezeen’s framing: Addison Mehr and Sky Elements led production, Yan Paul Dubbelman was designer, and DRIFT, Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz served as artistic advisors.
Location
New York Harbor, New York City, United States; Dezeen reports that the drones launched from Governors Island.
Organizations
Addison Mehr — Creative director and executive producer; Sky Elements Drones — Producer, drone-show production and flight operations; its official project page also credits the Sky Elements Creative Team with show design and its content team with media production; Yan Paul Dubbelman — Designer; DRIFT — Artistic advisor; Shigeru Ban — Artistic advisor, credited personally in the official announcement; Dean Maltz — Artistic advisor, credited personally in the official announcement; New York Foundation for the Arts — Fiscal sponsor and nonprofit partner; IDEKO — Federal and city permitting, safety and security operations; 9/11 family, survivor and responder community representatives — Shaped and reviewed the artwork’s creative approach; named participants included Brenda Berkman, Tim Brown, Terry Strada, Jim Smith and Genevieve Siller; 9/11 Families United — Community organization represented in the advisory group by president Terry Strada; Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund — Major funding support; Blavatnik Family Foundation — Major funding support; Pershing Square Philanthropies — Additional funding support; Office INK New York — Post-production, according to the Sky Elements project credits
The long-awaited completion of MAD’s 300,000-square-foot museum is one of the year’s most consequential U.S. cultural openings. New photography documents the technically complex envelope and Studio-MLA’s transformation of an asphalt lot into a 13-acre public landscape.
Location
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, One Lucas Plaza, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
Organizations
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art — Client and operator; MAD Architects — Design architect; Stantec — Collaborating architect; Studio-MLA — Landscape architect; Rockwell Group — Skywalker Grill interior design; Rhubarb Hospitality Collection — Restaurant operator
The world’s largest live-judged architecture awards program is returning to Greater Miami and relocating to Fort Lauderdale. Its South Florida setting, water-focused conference theme, live project critiques and September 4 early-booking deadline make advance accreditation and attendance planning editorially urgent.
Location
Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Organizations
World Architecture Festival — Organizer; EMAP Publishing Limited — Festival publisher and operator; Broward County Convention Center — Venue
The US design-build festival has a strong editorial premise: structures produced this September are intended to become material and spatial foundations for reuse, alteration, and performance in 2027 and 2028. The live construction process offers distinctive access opportunities.
Location
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, New York, United States
Organizations
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — Organizer and venue
