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GRU Space announces designs for “the first hotel on the Moon”

January 15, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

San Francisco start-up GRU Space has released plans for a hotel on the moon clad in lunar regolith bricks that it claims will be “the first ever permanent off-Earth structure built in history” if completed. The GRU lunar hotel concept would be established in phases, according to Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU Space) with the

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HKS tops Utah’s tallest skyscraper with lights that indicate urban air quality

January 13, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio HKS has completed a 41-storey residential skyscraper in Salt Lake City, which is now the tallest building in Utah and contains an LED crown that displays current levels of air pollution. The building is located in downtown Salt Lake City and works to “help protect the community by informing them of good or

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White House considering “one-story addition to the West Wing” with ballroom project

January 8, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architect Shalom Baranes has presented an updated design of the proposed White House ballroom that he said will allow it to “age in a much more graceful way” and speculated on adding a storey to the West Wing for symmetry. Baranes explained that, after taking over the project from original architect McCrery Architects, his studio will

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Beyer Blinder Belle completes Brooklyn skyscraper on “flatiron-like site”

January 7, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Beyer Blinder Belle has completed The Brook in Downtown Brooklyn, a 52-storey mixed-use skyscraper that was informed by historic Brooklyn architecture. The Brook sits in a triangular site next to the Brooklyn Tower at the confluence of DeKalb Avenue, Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street, in one of “the most prominent and complex intersections

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Commoncraft uses cantilever to extend “unconventional” Brooklyn building

January 6, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio Commoncraft has used a cantilevered volume to curve 545 Metropolitan over its neighbours, navigating the narrow Brooklyn site in order to provide more floor space. Located on Williamsburg’s busy Metropolitan Avenue just across from the Lorimer L subway station, 545 Metropolitan is a six-storey mixed-use building that contains apartments, ground-level commercial space and

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“Congestion pricing works” in New York City say officials after a year in action

January 5, 2026 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The first major traffic congestion pricing in the US, which rolled out a year ago today in New York City, has been considered a success according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority and New York governor Kathy Hochul. Congestion pricing – known formally as the Central Business District Tolling Program – was implemented in January 2025.

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The top 10 mass-timber buildings of 2025

December 26, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

As the material continues to grow in popularity, we take a look at mass-timber apartments, academic buildings and even an Apple Store made with cross-laminated timber and glulam, for our 2025 Review. Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, USA, by Grafton Architects and Modus Studio This angular building is located at the University

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Herzog & de Meuron designs skyscraper for “innovative housing solutions” in New York

December 23, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studios Herzog & de Meuron and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects have released designs for a residential skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan that will contain “100 per cent affordable” apartments and a recreation centre. The Hudson Mosaic was designed for a public lot owned by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in the Hudson Square neighbourhood

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Top 10 holiday homes of 2025

December 23, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

As the holidays approach, we take a look at houses from India to Scotland that would be ideal places to spend the vacation in for the latest roundup in our 2025 Review. Earth, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto created this circular home, called Earth, on Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel. The concrete

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Kéré Architecture unveils updated Las Vegas Museum of Art designs

December 17, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The Las Vegas Museum of Art has released updated images of its headquarters, being designed by Burkinabè architect studio Kéré Architecture, a building informed by the desert and the city’s modernist architecture. The newly updated renderings follow news announced last year that the studio led by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Diébédo Francis Kéré is designing the building,

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