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Brown and Crouppen King’s Hill Headquarters / HOK

Hana Abdel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Brown & Crouppen's new headquarters transforms a century-old stove factory into a workplace that competes with the comfort of home while honoring St. Louis' industrial heritage.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's Powell Hall / Snøhetta

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Beginning in 2019, Snøhetta, in collaboration with Christener Architects, Schuler Shook, BSI Constructors, and Kirkegaard, led the expansion and modernization of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's historic performance space, Powell Hall. To ring in the hall's centennial in 2025, the organization embarked on an ambitious 64,000-square-foot expansion with Snøhetta as design architect and landscape architect. The project will allow the concert hall to be more fully accessible and open to the community, creating a facility that supports and nurtures the creative process from idea to performance.

Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden / Ayers Saint Gross

Valeria Silva — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000

An iconic visitor center draws inspiration from nature. The Missouri Botanical Garden is a global leader in plant science research and the nation's oldest botanical garden in continuous operation. Entering a new era, the Garden engaged Ayers Saint Gross and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects to design an iconic visitor center and complementary gardens as the primary gateway for more than one million annual visitors. The state-of-the-art Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center represents a bold, transformative vision for the Garden and its mission to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life.

One Hundred / Studio Gang

Paula Pintos — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000

One Hundred is a residential tower overlooking Forest Park in St. Louis. The tower, Studio Gang’s first project in the city, will rise to over 380 feet and include retail, amenities, parking, and residential apartments with views of the park to the west and the Gateway Arch to the east.

Architect Bill Hellmuth, Chairman and CEO of HOK, Passes Away at the Age of 69

Maria-Cristina Florian — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Architect William (Bill) Hellmuth, the chairman and CEO of HOK, passed away on April 6, 2023, after a long illness. Hellmuth was elected president of HOK in 2005, then CEO in 2016. He accepted the new role on the condition of remaining design principal for HOK’s Washington D.C. studio, as he enjoyed having a hands-on approach and working directly with clients and HOK project teams. One year later he was also named chairman of the firm, helping the office to raise its profile as an innovative and influential company within the design community.

Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering / Perkins Eastman

Andreas Luco — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:00:00 +0000

One of the newest buildings on Washington University in St. Louis’ historic, 125-year-old campus, the James M. McKelvey, Sr. Hall creates a flexible, interdisciplinary, energy-efficient, and sustainable environment for world-class computational research and education. Designed for adaptability and rapid change, the new home of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering provides a model for interdisciplinary collaboration by fostering student engagement and high-impact research for future computer scientists and engineers.

Stoss Unveils New Chouteau Greenway Plan for St. Louis

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Stoss Landscape Urbanism is leading a 13-firm team creating the new Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan for St. Louis. The framework plan consists of a series of geographic, equity, economic, architectural, programming, art and design guidelines that will serve as the master plan for projects. As winners of the competition, the team is exploring how to incorporate connection, inclusion, and joy along the Greenway.

Spotlight: Minoru Yamasaki

David Douglass-Jaimes — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 03:30:00 +0000

Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986) has the uncommon distinction of being most well known for how his buildings were destroyed. His twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York collapsed in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, and his Pruitt-Igoe complex in St. Louis, Missouri, demolished less than 20 years after its completion, came to symbolize the failure of public housing and urban renewal in the United States. But beyond those infamous cases, Yamasaki enjoyed a long and prolific career, and was considered one of the masters of “New Formalism,” infusing modern buildings with classical proportions and sumptuous materials.

Tatiana Bilbao Selected for Urban Renovation Project in St. Louis

Mónica Arellano — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Emily Rauh Pulitzer, curator of the St. Louis Museum of Art and Steve Trampe of Owen Development, are spearheading a plan to transform a block near St. Louis's theater and museum district in the area of Grand Center. This project, (according to a story published on a local news site in St. Louis) is "a blank palette” and "an opportunity to take an entire block and make it different.”

Gateway Arch Museum / Cooper Robertson

Fernanda Castro — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:30:00 +0000

Accessible Design Goals
The Museum expansion, exhibits, and Arch grounds have been designed to utilize the core principles of Universal Design, which are founded on equal or equivalent means of use for all visitors and staff, and exceeds the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) These guidelines have been instrumental in creating an environment which is as simple and intuitive to use as possible, while also drastically reducing physical and attitudinal barriers to all users. The typical experience by users of all abilities will be enhanced by an environment which is more comfortable to use and thus encourages increased daily use and re-visitation.

Stoss Landscape Urbanism Selected to Design Chouteau Greenway for St. Louis

Ella Comberg — Sat, 12 May 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Ever since the City of St. Louis approved a sales tax to fund public greenways in 2000, citizens and planners have imagined a bike and pedestrian path along the city’s main east-west corridor. Last week, that vision was brought to life as Stoss Landscape Urbanism was selected to design the Chouteau Greenway. Their proposed strip of green space and walkways will stretch from the iconic Gateway Arch at the city’s eastern end to downtown, from there extending to Foster Park, which sits adjacent to Washington University in St. Louis on the city’s western edge.

Chouteau Greenway International Design Competition

Rene Submissions — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Great Rivers Greenway is leading a major public-private partnership to establish the conceptual plan for the Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis through this design competition. The goal of the project is to connect the areas of Washington University and Forest Park to Downtown and the Gateway Arch and Mississippi Riverfront. With spurs north and south and many other destinations along the way, the greenway will connect area neighborhoods, employment centers, parks, transit, and dozens of cultural and educational institutions.

The Chouteau Greenway will be part of the overall network of greenways being built by Great Rivers Greenway and partners. This competition

AD Classics: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project / Minoru Yamasaki

Luke Fiederer — Mon, 15 May 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Few buildings in history can claim as infamous a legacy as that of the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project of St. Louis, Missouri. Built during the height of Modernism this nominally innovative collection of residential towers was meant to stand as a triumph of rational architectural design over the ills of poverty and urban blight; instead, two decades of turmoil preceded the final, unceremonious destruction of the entire complex in 1973. The fall of Pruitt-Igoe ultimately came to signify not only the failure of one public housing project, but arguably the death knell of the entire Modernist era of design.

Studio Gang Designs Tiered Mixed-Use Tower on Forest Park in St. Louis

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:45:00 +0000

Studio Gang has revealed their design for One Hundred, a mixed-use tower to be located on Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Studio Gang’s first project in the city, the tower will rise over 350 feet and include retail, amenities, parking and residential apartments featuring views of the park and the Gateway Arch.

US Architecture School Bans Styrene as Model Making Material

Karissa Rosenfield — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000

By next Fall, the architecture students of Washington University in St. Louis will no longer be allowed to use Styrene on their projects. The university's newspaper, Student Life reports that the commonly used white plastic material was deemed in 2014 by the National Research Council's National Toxicology Program as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen." Thus the Sam Fox School of Design is taking its own measures to protect their student's health. A number of other schools and cities have already banned Styrene since the NRC's ruling.

The Best US Architecture Schools for 2016 are...

Karissa Rosenfield — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:30:00 +0000

DesignIntelligence has released their 2016 rankings of the Best Architecture Schools in the US for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Nearly 1500 professional practice organizations were surveyed this year, as part of the survey's 16th edition, and were asked the following question: “In your firm’s hiring experience in the past five years, which of the following schools are best preparing students for success in the profession?”

The Power of Photography: How Images Continue to Shape the Built Environment

Vladimir Gintoff — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0000

In a culture dominated by smartphones and Instagram, with estimates that over one trillion photographs will be taken this year alone, it might seem impossible for photographs to make and shape issues in the ways they once did. Despite this, images still steer debates with shocking resiliency and, with luck, become iconic in their own right. As architecture is synonymous with placemaking and cultural memory, it is only logical that images of the built environment can have lasting effects on the issues of architecture and urbanism. It's never been easier for photographs to gain exposure than they can today, and with social media and civilian journalism, debates have never started more quickly.

Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Announce Second “PXSTL” Design Competition

Eric Oh — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis are inviting architects, designers and artists to propose a temporary structure in St. Louis, Missouri, for the second cycle of “PXSTL”. The competition aims to transform an under-used lot in the heart of St. Louis’ Arts and Culture district, catalyzing creative intervention and artistic programs. Nominations will be solicited from deans of architecture, art, and design programs; editors of art, architecture, and design publications; distinguished practitioners; and directors and curators of arts institutions. Read more about this competition after the break.