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 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
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
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
