The newly released design is a major U.S. sports and civic-development story: a privately financed arena serving three professional teams, conceived as a contemporary successor to Philadelphia's Spectrum and targeted for 2030.
Location
Historic Spectrum site, South Philadelphia Sports Complex, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Organizations
Philadelphia 76ers — Team and project partner; Philadelphia Flyers — Team and project partner; Comcast Spectacor — Project partner and Flyers owner; Populous — Design architect; Moody Nolan — Design architect
The deadline closes the project-submission stage for South Florida’s principal AIA chapter awards and provides an immediate opportunity to monitor the region’s forthcoming awards pipeline.
The 300,000-square-foot opening is a meaningful U.S. laboratory-design story, combining high-performance research space with computational facilities, classrooms and a reworked campus landscape supporting more than 700 employees.
Location
E. 100th Street and Cedar Avenue, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Organizations
Cleveland Clinic Buildings + Design — Client design team; HOK — Architect; Vanderweil Engineers — Engineering collaborator; Gilbane Building Company — Construction manager; State of Ohio — Public funding partner through the Cleveland Innovation District; JobsOhio — Cleveland Innovation District partner
The project treats stadium access as a substantial urban-infrastructure and public-space problem, combining pedestrian circulation, transport integration, climate protection and event programming.
Location
Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Organizations
Las Vegas Raiders — Project sponsor and operator; Grimshaw — Lead architecture firm; Las Vegas Stadium Authority — Public funding authority; The Boring Company — Potential future tunnel-transit connection
The approval is a concrete South Florida example of state housing legislation overriding conventional zoning expectations while introducing workforce housing into Miami Beach’s North Beach district.
Location
7410 Collins Avenue, North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Organizations
BH Collins LLC — Applicant and owner of record; Urban Robot Associates — Architect; Opal Realty NY — Development partner reported by project coverage; The Scharf Group — Development partner reported by project coverage
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
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
This is a newly material design milestone for a major Florida cultural project. The revised scheme defines the museum's scale and façade before regulatory review and a planned 2027 groundbreaking.
Location
Downtown Jacksonville Northbank, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Organizations
Museum of Science & History — Client and museum operator; SmithGroup — Architecture, engineering and lead design
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
The transaction combines one of the largest U.S. architecture firms with a respected design practice known for corporate, higher-education and research work. It signals further consolidation in the profession while giving Corgan an immediate Durham and Research Triangle presence.
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Organizations
Corgan — Acquiring architecture and design firm; Duda|Paine Architects — Acquired architecture practice; Morrissey Goodale — Transaction advisor to Corgan
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
A South Florida architecture school is among seven international teams selected for a live, water-focused design charrette at WAF’s Fort Lauderdale edition, creating a strong local interview opportunity ahead of the November festival.
Location
Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Organizations
World Architecture Festival — Organizer; MIU City University Miami — South Florida finalist institution; Columbia University — Finalist institution; Pratt Institute — Finalist institution; University of Toronto — Finalist institution; IUAV University of Venice — Finalist institution; Kingston University — Finalist institution; Institute of Architecture and Planning, NIRMA University — Finalist institution
Snøhetta’s first ground-up Florida building turns Miami’s hurricane-screening and solar-control requirements into the defining architecture of a mixed-use Design District project.
Location
95 NE 40th Street, Miami Design District, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
Miami Design District Associates — Developer; Raycliff Capital — Developer; Snøhetta — Architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture
Treister was a defining figure in postwar South Florida architecture whose work connected tropical modernism, public housing, hospitality, religious architecture, sculpture and memorial design.
Location
South Florida, United States
Organizations
University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries — Holder of the Kenneth Treister Collection and publisher of the institutional tribute; Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach — Major Treister work and memorial institution
The newly opened national award cycle is a useful service item for US practices, owners and public agencies. The November deadline covers recently completed new construction, renovations and restorations worldwide when submitted through a US-licensed AIA architect.
Location
United States; eligible projects may be located worldwide
Organizations
The American Institute of Architects — Award organizer
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 year-long pilot moves construction-material reuse from advocacy into municipal logistics and data gathering. Its results could influence how major U.S. cities organize recovery, storage and redistribution systems for salvaged building components.
Location
MADE Bush Terminal, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Organizations
New York City Economic Development Corporation — Program sponsor; Our Temenos — Hub operator; MADE Bush Terminal — Host campus
The annual report provides unusually comprehensive evidence about who enters, remains in and exits the U.S. architecture licensure process. It offers a strong basis for a reported profession story rather than a simple data recap.
Location
United States
Organizations
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards — Publisher and architectural licensing organization
The collaboration addresses a recurring specification problem by integrating architectural-grade controls and tunable light directly into handcrafted decorative fixtures rather than treating controls and feature lighting as separate systems.
Location
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, and Boulder, Colorado, United States
Organizations
Lutron Electronics — Intelligent lighting technology and controls; Ted Bradley Studio — Decorative fixture designer and manufacturer
A decisive local preservation development for one of South Florida’s most significant modernist structures. Voter approval gives the long-stalled restoration a credible path toward financing, design and final City Commission review, while leaving important questions about conservation standards, programming and commercial management unresolved.
Location
Miami Marine Stadium, Virginia Key, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
City of Miami — Owner and public approval authority; Oak View Group / Global Spectrum — Voter-approved prospective venue operator and developer of the management, construction and financing plan; Restore Miami Marine Stadium — Preservation advocacy organization; Richard J. Heisenbottle Architects — Architect responsible for previously completed renovation design and permitting identified by the City of Miami; Hilario Candela — Original architect; Jack Meyer — Original structural engineer
This is a major conservation intervention involving an unusually inseparable relationship between art, architecture, daylight and desert landscape. It will require moving Judd’s 100 aluminum works for the first time since installation and brings together a notable architecture, engineering and conservation team.
Location
The Chinati Foundation, former Fort D.A. Russell, Marfa, Texas, United States
Organizations
The Chinati Foundation — Client, collection steward and project lead; Schaum Architects — Architectural design; Getty Conservation Institute — Artwork and conservation consulting; Alfred Lippincott — Artwork and conservation consultant; original fabricator; TYLin — Structural engineering; Simpson Gumpertz & Heger — Building-envelope and fire-protection consulting; Dept. — Landscape design; Transsolar KlimaEngineering — Sustainability consulting; Higgins Quasebarth & Partners — Historic-preservation consulting
A consequential preservation project where architecture, conservation, landscape and Donald Judd’s site-specific art are inseparable. The newly launched campaign gives editors an opportunity to examine how the museum will improve environmental performance and access without compromising Judd’s interventions.
Location
The Chinati Foundation, 1 Cavalry Row, Marfa, Texas, United States
Organizations
The Chinati Foundation — Owner, museum and project steward; Schaum Architects — Restoration architect; Troy Schaum is leading architectural studies and preservation work; Getty Conservation Institute — Artwork and conservation partner; Lippincott, LLC — Original artwork fabricator and conservation collaborator
The July data is a direct national indicator of future nonresidential construction activity. The continuing contraction affects firm staffing, mergers and acquisitions, project starts, and the design pipeline nine to twelve months ahead.
Location
United States
Organizations
The American Institute of Architects — Publisher and survey administrator; Deltek — ABI program partner
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
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
