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
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 September 9 talk provides timely access to curator Brenda Fernández and a major design exhibition comprising 212 objects and archival works, creating a practical reporting opportunity in a priority geography.
Location
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Organizations
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey — Organizer and venue; Eames Office — Exhibition collaborator and lender; MillerKnoll — Exhibition sponsor and furniture lender; Daltile — Exhibition sponsor; Consulate General of the United States in Monterrey — Exhibition supporter
The exhibition pairs a consequential new institutional donation with a study of Herzog & de Meuron’s work in China, using models, drawings, samples and replicated archival vitrines to examine how architecture is documented and exhibited.
Location
Focus Gallery, Level 2, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Organizations
M+ — Organizing museum and collection recipient; Herzog & de Meuron — Featured architecture practice, exhibition collaborator and donor; West Kowloon Cultural District Authority — Museum district operator
The newly detailed programme turns the Spanish furniture fair into a broader design and specification platform, with full-scale hospitality concepts, material research, emerging designers, kitchens, construction technology, and the citywide València Design Fest.
Location
Feria Valencia, Avenida de las Ferias, Valencia, Spain
Organizations
Feria Hábitat València — Lead fair and programme organizer; Feria Valencia — Venue and institutional organizer; Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana — Organizer of València Design Fest; Joaquín Homs — Designer of Hotel Hábitat 2026; Francesc Rifé Studio — Designer of AMC Kitchen Lab; Matter — Materials exhibition curator and presenter
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
The pavilion will frame housing’s overlooked shared spaces as democratic infrastructure, offering a timely curatorial argument about social isolation, community and the architecture of everyday coexistence.
Location
German Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Organizations
KAWAHARA KRAUSE ARCHITECTS — Lead curatorial practice; Technical University of Munich Architekturmuseum — Curatorial and academic collaborator through Andres Lepik; Leibniz University Hannover — Curatorial institution through Olga Cobuscean; RWTH Aachen University — Academic contributor; RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau — Academic contributor; State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart — Academic contributor
The project offers a compact adaptive-reuse case study in which Lisbon’s port-industrial morphology is translated into three homes organized by courtyards, retained masonry, and a newly legible metal structure.
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 project is a convincing piece of temporary cultural architecture rather than a novelty installation: heat, ventilation, bench geometry, stage lighting, sound and audience circulation have been designed as one performance system. Its demountable construction also proposes a touring model for unconventional arts infrastructure.
Location
Sauna Theatre at Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Organizations
Studio Three Sixty — Architectural and performance-venue designer; Sauna Sessions Arts Club — Client, co-designer and operator; Lucy Osborne — Lead designer and co-founder; James Grieve — Co-founder and artistic collaborator; Summerhall Arts — Festival host and site partner
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 completed Danish development moves 3D concrete printing beyond isolated prototypes into regulated, budget-constrained multifamily housing, while testing cement-free printed components with sharply reduced embodied carbon.
Location
Holstebro, Denmark, near VIA University College
Organizations
SAGA Space Architects — Architect; MS+ arkitekter — Collaborating architect; 3DCP Group — Contractor and 3D-printing specialist; NordVestBO — Client and housing developer; Bygkontrol — Engineer; COBOD International — BOD3 printing-system provider; Aalborg Portland — Material partner; VELUX — Project partner; Rationel — Project partner; HTH — Project partner; Marmorline — Project partner; Innovation Fund Denmark — Funder of cement-free material development
Kusama fundamentally changed the design of immersive cultural experience through mirrored rooms, repetition, pattern, sculpture and highly controlled spatial environments. Her studio’s announcement today warrants immediate coverage focused on her influence across exhibition design, interiors, fashion and public art.
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Organizations
Yayoi Kusama Inc. — Artist organization issuing the announcement; Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. — Artist studio issuing the announcement
This active South Florida procurement concerns a long-delayed museum at a nationally significant Black recreation and civil-rights landscape. Its resilience requirements, elevated construction, public programming and cultural mandate make the design-build selection worth close local scrutiny.
Location
Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, Virginia Key, Miami, Florida
Organizations
City of Miami Department of Procurement — Procurement authority; Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Trust — Site and cultural partner; City of Miami District 5 Office — Public-sector project partner
The completed office is a rigorous example of architecture treated as habitat: its CLT structure, poplar-bark envelope, native planted roof, circular detailing and water-and-energy systems merit a technical project review beyond the building’s camouflage effect.
Location
Tafelberg heathland, Blaricum, North Holland, Netherlands
Organizations
Studio Massimo — Architecture and interior design; InLandschap — Landscape design; Heritage Renewal — Project management; Van de Kolk Bouw B.V. — General contractor; Breed ID — Structural engineering; Woodteq — Timber engineering and construction; PhysiBuild — Building physics, acoustics and fire-safety consulting; Bark House — Poplar-bark cladding supplier; Van Vliet Interieurmakers — Joinery
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
A noteworthy Mexican cultural project in a region dominated by private resort development. Its below-grade public gallery uses architecture, desert climate and coastal light as active curatorial conditions rather than treating the building as a sealed exhibition container.
Location
Ánima Village, Cabo del Sol Tourist Corridor, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Organizations
Sordo Madaleno — Architect; SOMA — Client; Arte Abierto — Client and cultural operator; Artec Creo Lab — Collaborator and adviser; Abraham Cruzvillegas — Opening installation artist
