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 opening completes a nine-year transformation of a closed banking headquarters into a major public museum and offers a strong Spanish adaptive-reuse case study about retaining civic memory while radically changing access and use.
Location
Historic Edificio Pereda, Paseo de Pereda, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Organizations
Fundación Banco Santander — Museum founder and cultural operator; Banco Santander — Project sponsor and former building occupant; David Chipperfield Architects — Architectural design and rehabilitation; Sir David Chipperfield — Architect credited with the rehabilitation; Faro Santander — Museum and cultural institution
The completed project is a rare contemporary test of structural stone at high-rise scale, replacing conventional reinforced structural framing with an exposed volcanic-stone exoskeleton.
Location
317 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Groupwork — Architect; Webb Yates Engineers — Structural engineer; Petra Heights — Development; Mortimer Surveyors — Development enquiry agent
The findings provide unusually broad evidence of design’s economic scale and the growing importance of designers working inside sectors beyond traditional design businesses.
Location
United Kingdom
Organizations
Design Council — Research publisher and UK national strategic advisor for design
The completed Brazilian airport renovation is a strong public-infrastructure and mass-timber story: prefabricated wood allowed expansion without stopping airport operations while doubling passenger capacity and adding civic and commercial uses.
Location
Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
The opening is a major adaptive-reuse and institution-building story: a 1912 industrial building has become the region's first permanent contemporary-arts center, creating new cultural infrastructure in Central Asia.
Location
Building B, 6 Amir Temur Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Organizations
Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent — Cultural institution and operator; Studio KO — Architectural transformation; Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation — Project commissioner and supporting foundation
The international furniture-design competition has an imminent September 16 submission deadline. Its special 25th-anniversary brief focuses on manufacturing futures and is open to students, professionals and independent creators.
The competition-winning proposal offers a rigorous preservation story: a substantial new museum is buried beneath a historic moat, using reconstructed water infrastructure and a choreographed descent to expand the Royal Danish Collection without competing with the Renaissance castle.
Location
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizations
AART — Lead architect; Fogh & Følner — Architect; VEGA Landskab — Landscape architect; Artelia — Engineer; Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces — Client
The completed building is one of the most anticipated US museum openings of the decade, combining MAD's sculptural envelope with an 11-acre Studio-MLA landscape. Member previews begin September 5, making press access and on-site coverage urgent.
Location
One Lucas Plaza, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California
Organizations
MAD Architects — Design architect; Studio-MLA — Landscape architect; Stantec — Executive architect; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art — Client and operator
The start of enabling work marks a material milestone for the final major development site on Brickell Key. The two-tower KPF-designed hospitality and residential complex will significantly reshape Miami's waterfront skyline and reconnect a large resort podium to the island baywalk.
Location
750 Claughton Island Drive, Brickell Key, Miami, Florida 33131
Organizations
Swire Properties — Developer and owner; Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group — Hospitality brand and operator; Kohn Pedersen Fox — Design architect
The approval is a timely local case study in how Florida's Live Local Act is altering the scale and review process of development in Miami Beach, while incorporating part of a 1950 commercial property into a denser mixed-use project.
Location
7410 Collins Avenue, North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida 33141
Organizations
BH Collins LLC — Applicant and owner entity; Urban Robot Associates — Architect and designer; Opal Realty NY — Development partner, as identified in publisher reporting; The Scharf Group — Development partner, as identified in publisher reporting; City of Miami Beach — Approving agency
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
The fair is an imminent opportunity to assess furniture, lighting, materials and design businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean, with a selected emerging-design program and dedicated participation from Brazilian creators.
Location
Plaza Mayor Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
Organizations
La Feria De Diseño — Organizer; idd cologne — International fair partner; Plaza Mayor Medellín — Venue; Design Week POA — Curator of invited Brazilian CREADORES selection
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
The adaptive reuse of a 1923 Art Deco warehouse as a major European dance center extends Rotterdam’s cultural transformation and establishes a direct architectural dialogue with MAD’s adjacent Fenix museum.
Location
Former Provimi warehouse, Katendrecht, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Organizations
Stichting het Danshuis — Client; MAD — Architect; EGM — Collaborating architect; Droom en Daad Foundation — Developer and cultural-project foundation; IMd — Structural engineer; Bosman — Building-services engineering; LBP — Building physics; Theateradvies — Theatre technology; Aardlab — Sustainability consultant; Basalt — Construction-cost consultant; Brink — Construction management
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
The award recognizes a Spanish public-housing system rather than a single photogenic building, making it a strong editorial entry point into procurement reform, bioregional materials, public-sector design capacity and the relationship between architecture and housing policy.
Location
Balearic Islands, Spain
Organizations
OBEL — Awarding foundation; Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) — Public housing agency in which the model was developed; Cris Ballester — Co-creator; economist and former IBAVI managing director; Carles Oliver — Co-creator; architect and former head of IBAVI's technical department
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 three-day event begins today and offers unusually direct access to major Spanish-speaking practices inside buildings by Manuel Tolsá, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Rafael Mijares, Félix Candela and Mies van der Rohe. The live ticketing window makes this an immediate attendance decision.
Location
Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Museo de Arte Moderno and the BACARDÍ complex in Tultitlán, Mexico City and State of Mexico, Mexico
Organizations
Instituto Español de Arquitectura — Organizer; Festival de Arquitectura en Español — Event producer; Museo Nacional de San Carlos — Venue; Museo de Arte Moderno — Venue; BACARDÍ — Venue host
The Pamplona biennial is a meaningful platform for emerging Latin American practices and directly serves priority regions including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The October submission deadline creates a timely service and talent-scouting opportunity.
Location
Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Organizations
Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana — Biennial and call organizer; Asociación para la Reflexión Estratégica sobre la Arquitectura — Organizing association; University of Navarra School of Architecture — Institutional partner represented on the jury
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
One of the first substantial Florida Live Local Act developments to reach construction pairs 100-percent income-restricted workforce housing with a design-led response to a difficult triangular infill parcel near Miami's largest medical employment hub.
Location
1750 NW 15th Street Road, Miami, Florida
Organizations
DFRE — Developer; ODP Architects — Architect; Miller Construction Company — General contractor
