How can major transit projects drive positive social change? Deconstructing TOD: Transit Roots playfully explores how transit can shape thriving communities, spur new housing, create public spaces, and support local businesses—while addressing the challenges that come with it.
The Spring Scholars Series: Women + Architecture at Mather Homestead will take place on March 27, 2025. It will feature a discussion on the contributions of women in architecture and how their work is shaping the built environment today. The event will begin with a lecture by the authors of Women Architects at Work, honoring the legacy of Bertha Mather McPherson (1906-1993), one of Connecticut's pioneering female architects.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) International is excited to announce the upcoming AIA International Spring Conference 2025, taking place from March 20 to 22, 2025. This global online event will bring together visionary architects, designers, and industry experts to discuss the future of the built environment under the theme "Trailblazing Architecture."
→ Residency period: May 27 - June 30, 2025
→ Application deadline: March 30, 2025
→ Stipend, travel support and production budget available
The ninth edition of Forecast culminates in an action-packed Festival on March 14–15, at Radialsystem.
Exclusive Film-Screening: Women in Architecture II
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM ANNOUNCES PLANS TO EXTEND TRANSFORMATION
As the museum’s first phase of repair and improvement nears completion including the re-opening of the Power Hall in summer 2025, the Science and Industry Museum announces plans for new permanent galleries and improvements to its globally significant site.
• A new Wonderlab gallery is being planned to inspire children to imagine, experiment and play like an inventor.
• Feasibility work will begin this year on a new free Technicians interactive gallery for 11-16-year-olds to inspire tomorrow’s technicians.
• Following extensive external repairs, feasibility work will also begin this year on a new gallery and static rail experience for the historic 1830 station (the world’s first inter-urban passenger railway and world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station) set to re-open ahead of the Liverpool-Manchester railway bicentenary in 2030.
• Feasibility work will also commence in the near future on landscaping and improving access in and around the museum’s Lower Yard to enable a landmark science playground and open the museum site to connect to Manchester and Salford via Water Street and through to Aviva Studios, Liverpool Road and Castlefield.
By the end of 2025, 50% of the Science and Industry Museum’s globally significant industrial heritage site will have been significantly repaired and renewed over the last five years thanks to over £40 million investment secured from national government, charitable trusts and foundations and philanthropists. A new, award-winning Special Exhibitions Gallery is originating and hosting some of the UK’s best science experiences and the Grade I listed Station Agent’s House has been restored and opened as a new holiday property for Manchester with the Landmark Trust. The Grade II listed Power Hall and public realm in the upper half of the site are set to open later this year following significant repair and improvements. Meanwhile, the historic roofs of the listed New Warehouse and 1830 Station together with the museum’s Gantry have been repaired and future proofed for the next century and beyond, along with significant work to decarbonise the site.
The museum is now planning its next projects to continue to create compelling galleries that tell the story of the world’s first industrial city, open-up and celebrate its historic site with fundraising currently underway.
A new Wonderlab gallery is in the planning to be one of the most spectacular, interactive science galleries of its kind. Inspiring children to think, experiment and play like inventors, it will pay homage to Manchester’s rich history of science and invention and the museum site which explores ideas that change the world. Planned to open late 2027, the museum is now seeking an architect and lead designer. An open competition to design Wonderlab opened on 21 February, with architectural and exhibition design practices invited to submit first stage tender returns by 24 March on the Science Museum Group’s Tenders website. The successful designer will be able to draw on the architectural features and history of the museum’s site, reflect the creativity and innovation synonymous with Manchester and enhance the feeling of wonder and awe for the museum’s target audiences of ages 4-10 (plus access for early years) to enjoy.
Science and Industry Museum Director Sally MacDonald OBE says
“Ahead of the Power Hall re-opening this summer and the completion of a mammoth amount of repair work to our wonderful historic buildings, we can now look forward to future compelling galleries that will help us tell the stories of the world’s first industrial city and ideas that change the world.
It’s our mission to open the potential of the whole of this globally significant industrial heritage site - to bring all of it back into use and to celebrate it through a journey that allows visitors to explore and understand how the buildings and structures that the museum cares for connect to the collections and stories they contain.
We want to create more access through the site and make the most of the museum’s outdoor spaces for everyone who lives in and visits Manchester and provide more opportunities to inspire the next generation of innovators, thinkers, creators, technicians and scientists whose ideas will continue to change the world.”
The ½” =1’-0” scale model has been an integral part of our design process since we started our practice 8 years ago. The scale of the model allows us to look “into” the model rather than “over” it. Looking in is like finding and the act of finding is important for design. Our primary goal of model-making is not to generate form, but to generate space.
The ½” =1’-0” scale model allows us to test multiple spatial qualities: layout and section, material palette, assembly, details, and light. Testing the relationship of how these elements come together in the model allows us to make decisions. Sometimes things go well together, sometimes we see different elements require more tension.
The models in Models Off-Site are a mix of in-progress models from our office, models returned from exhibitions, and models from completed projects that have been in storage. We see this two-day exhibition as an opportunity to bring models from the last 8 years of our practice together, unboxed, and in one space.
Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
The call for the seventh edition of the European Award AHI is now open, an event that has become a benchmark for architectural heritage intervention, as evidenced by the large number of works submitted in each edition, which help shed light on the direction in which Europe is heading in this field.
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi - School of Architecture and Design (KMUTT - SoA+D) is pleased to announce its 2025 Lecture Series on the Life and Career of Architecture Students After Graduation. This semester's lectures will feature speakers from various fields around the world, offering diverse perspectives and international viewpoints on the forefront of contemporary architecture and architectural engineering.
Join us in the Newmark Gallery at Art Omi for Raising Supper, an afternoon of gathering, making, and conversation as we celebrate the opening of Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts by designer Erin Besler.
Join 120 Hours 2025 – the world's largest architectural competition for students, by students!
The SOM Foundation and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture are now accepting applications for the 2025 Researcher-in-Residence.
Commonwealth Day - Monday, 10th March 2025 (1:00 PM UTC+0)
London Festival of Architecture, Eastern City BID, and City of London Launch ‘City Views’ Design Competition
Please register by March 1st! for AMT2025 (Architectural Material Technology Commons) (March 27th -29th 2025) The Conference aims to elucidate aspects of the design process which help to revolutionize our approach to material responsibility in architecture and design; by focusing on novel, regenerative, resilient, Indigenous, and traditional materials, AMT2025 seeks to foster sustainable practices that respect our environment, honor cultural heritage, and empower practitioners through the democratization of knowledge and skills.
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