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
The conversion of a massive 19th-century storage complex into the unified home of MIT’s architecture, planning and design programs is a major institutional adaptive-reuse story. It pairs high-profile architecture with preservation, all-electric heat-pump infrastructure, material-health targets and a significant reorganization of design education at MIT.
Location
Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, Building W41, 134 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Organizations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Owner and institution; Diller Scofidio + Renfro — Lead designer; Leers Weinzapfel Associates — Architect; Shawmut Design and Construction — Construction manager
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 US sports-architecture commission with regional urban-design consequences: HNTB is being asked to create an arena centered on hockey intimacy while integrating retail, entertainment and public gathering spaces. The project also raises timely questions about suburban venue planning, transportation and public financing.
Location
The Shops at Willow Bend, west of the Dallas North Tollway, Plano, Texas, United States
Organizations
Dallas Stars — Client and prospective arena operator; HNTB — Lead design firm; City of Plano — Prospective public owner and municipal partner; Centennial — Willow Bend redevelopment partner; Levin Holdings — Development partner; Cawley Partners — Development partner
The yearlong program offers a focused reassessment of Santiago Calatrava’s first United States building and its influence on Milwaukee’s civic identity, beginning this week.
Location
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Organizations
Milwaukee Art Museum — Organizer and venue; Santiago Calatrava — Original architect of the Quadracci Pavilion
The proposal could materially change how internationally educated and nontraditional candidates demonstrate academic competence for entry to the UK architecture profession. A live September deadline creates an immediate opportunity for analysis and stakeholder interviews.
Location
United Kingdom; consultation and assessment conducted online
Organizations
Architects Registration Board — UK statutory regulator and consultation authority
The provincial ideas competition creates a timely opportunity to examine how an Argentine city is reframing a civic square around sustainability and contemporary public life.
Location
Plaza Italia, Santa Fe, Argentina
Organizations
Colegio de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Provincia de Santa Fe — Competition organizer
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 award is directly relevant to practices in Spain, Brazil and Mexico and is unusual in judging built architecture substantially through film and lived experience. The September 14 nomination deadline creates an immediate service opportunity for eligible studios and filmmakers.
Location
International call covering Europe, Brazil, Mexico and Morocco; programme based in Barcelona, Spain
Organizations
Simon — Award founder and organizer; Fundació Mies van der Rohe — Curator; Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize — Official award platform
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 collaboration connects a Los Angeles design studio with Japanese precision sheet-metal manufacturing, producing a coherent furniture family that turns industrial bending, rolling, and finishing techniques into expressive domestic objects. Its September Los Angeles presentation creates a timely US attendance and interview opportunity.
Location
Small Office, 3465 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Organizations
Waka Waka — Design studio; EETAL — Commissioning brand; Japan Benex — Manufacturer and producer; MELLOWTALK — Creative direction through Keisuke Matsuo
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
Spain is a priority market, and the festival aligns design culture with the commercial scale of Feria Hábitat València. Its program spans architecture, furniture, lighting, craft, film, exhibitions, workshops, and professional exchange, making it suitable for coordinated event coverage.
Location
Multiple venues across València, Spain
Organizations
Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana — Festival organizer; Feria Valencia — Strategic program partner; ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones — Strategic partner
The September 24 deadline creates a timely opportunity to surface new preservation proposals for cemeteries, temples and sacred landscapes across Argentina, including architectural interventions, interpretation, wayfinding, cataloguing and research.
Location
Argentina; nationwide eligibility for qualifying residents
Organizations
Fondo Nacional de las Artes — Competition organizer and funder
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 project combines sound technology, adaptive cultural use and rare access to a major 1890 industrial structure closed to the public for 13 years. Free tickets and the short five-day run create an immediate attendance and commissioning opportunity.
Location
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London E1W 3SF, United Kingdom
Organizations
London Design Festival — Commissioning festival; L-Acoustics — Presenter and spatial-audio technology partner; Glass Castle Foundation — Venue custodian and host; Max Cooper — Commissioned multidisciplinary artist; Chris Watson — Sound artist and nature recordist
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
This is unusually strong evidence that architectural design itself can act as public-health infrastructure. The randomized trial connects passive cooling, insect screening, sanitation, smoke control, solar power and rainwater collection to measurable reductions in three major childhood diseases.
Location
55 villages in rural Mtwara Region, Tanzania
Organizations
Ifakara Health Institute — Research partner; University of Oxford — Research partner; Royal Danish Academy — Architecture and research partner; Ecohomes Company Limited — Prefabrication and construction contractor
The live relocation of an intact historic keep is an exceptional preservation and construction story. It demonstrates how traditional building-moving knowledge, public participation and long-term masonry conservation can converge in a nationally important heritage project.
Location
Hirosaki Park and Hirosaki Castle, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Organizations
City of Hirosaki — Project authority and event organizer; Hirosaki Park — Historic site and event venue
