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Architecture Now: Urban Updates from Madrid to L.A. on Climate, Policy, and Recovery

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 02 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In recent weeks, cities around the world have introduced new policies, recovery efforts, and infrastructure projects that reflect growing pressure to adapt to climate realities. From Southern Europe to South America and the United States, these urban updates address both immediate challenges and long-term shifts in how the built environment is governed, designed, and inhabited. Some initiatives focus on regulation, tightening building codes in fire-prone areas or reforming aging safety systems, while others spotlight large-scale investments tied to global events such as COP30 and the Venice Architecture Biennale. This edition of Architecture Now gathers a selection of city-led actions and collaborative efforts that point toward a more resilient, responsive future for architecture and urban life.

Architectural Interventions in the Desert: Natural Escapes, Minimal Intervention and Reclusive Luxury

James Wormald — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Set deep within some of the most isolated desert landscapes across the Middle East and further afield, these desert camp hotels offer a way to connect with their surroundings through the solitary experience of open and expansive scenery.

Camp Sarika / Amangiri + Luxury Frontiers

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Luxury Frontiers, the San Francisco and Johannesburg-based international design and development firm, has conceived and designed exclusive luxury accommodation for Camp Sarika by Amangiri in Southern Utah. This first-ever North American all-weather, year-round camp is home to 10 luxury tents nestled at the foot of Utah’s mighty mesas.

Rising from the Desert: A 15-Minute City is Coming to Utah

Kaley Overstreet — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 04:00:00 +0000

15-minute cities are a trending urban planning topic that has long been discussed academically and is now slowly being implemented across existing cities in Europe. But now, the first 15-minute city is being designed and built from scratch in Utah. Dubbed “The Point”, the new 600-acre city will be located just outside Salt Lake City, and will be a redeveloped former state prison site where new jobs, housing, public spaces, amenities, and transportation will serve almost 15,000 people in an attempt to explore a prototype for how innovative urban planning concepts can improve the public health and wellness.

Chalet on Powder Mountain / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:00:00 +0000

This chalet is located just slightly north of the top of a gentle slope that stretches fromnorth to south in the natural park in Powder Mountain, Utah, USA. It sits at the northernend of a cluster of chalets spread out to the south, and one can enjoy theview to thesouth from the second floor. It is a great place to access both the town and the ski resort,and enjoy the magnificent view to the north.

Open Call: Mountain Architecture Prototype (MAP), an SPM Design Competition

Sabrina Santos — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:00:00 +0000

Utah-based community project Summit has announced Mountain Architecture Prototype (MAP), an SPM Design Competition, "to select the design of a cabin prototype in an effort to push forward the conversation around what it means to build responsibly at 8,400 feet in the Wasatch [Mountain] Range.”

BIG Designs Rejected Again for Kimball Art Center

Finn MacLeod — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

After producing major revisions on a previously rejected design, BIG have had their second design rejected for the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah. City Hall rejected the design on the basis of appearance, arguing that it did not relate to the historic city centre "aesthetically, visually or historically." The second design by BIG marked a complete departure from the original that was selected as the winner of an architectural contest hosted by the Kimball Art Center.

Did Park City Blow It With BIG's Kimball Art Center?

Rory Stott — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In an entertaining take on the events that led BIG to completely redesign their winning competition entry for the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan describes the new design as "ridiculously anonymous," "a huge — and almost hilarious — departure from the personality and warmth of the original design." She asks the residents of Park City, whose outrage forced the redesign, "are you happy now?" Read the full article here.

Utah to Eliminate Homelessness With Entirely Logical Solution

Vanessa Quirk — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Despite rising poverty across the US, homelessness has decreased 69% in Utah over the past five years and is even expected to be eliminated this year, the Huffington Post reports. How has Utah found such success? By giving the homeless homes. While the answer may seem obvious, Utah is breaking ground with its Housing Works program, which gives the homeless affordable and permanent apartments on just one condition: that they be "good stewards."

Natural History Museum of Utah / Ennead Architects

Victoria King — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:00:50 +0000

Architect: Ennead Architects Architect of Record: GSBS Architects Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Jeff Goldberg/Esto, Stuart Ruckman, Ben Lowry

Kimball Art Center / Will Bruder+PARTNERS

Irina Vinnitskaya — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:00:52 +0000

The Kimball Art Center design proposal by Will Bruder+PARTNERS focuses on the nature of “exhibition” in the context of history. Taking a cue from the “colorful prehistoric petroglyphs and pictographs” of Utah’s canyons along with its abundance of formally expressive Victorian architecture, the proposal takes on the role of expression and education through color and craft. This sensitivity to the history and propogation of exhibition is instantly understood with the facade walls of Main and Heber Streets.

Kimball Art Center / Sparano + Mooney Architecture

Irina Vinnitskaya — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

The Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah is hosting a competition for a transformation of the “non-profit center for the arts in the heart of Park City’s historic and vibrant art community”. The list of architects competing to transform this cultural space is selective. Among them is Sparano + Mooney Architecture, an internationally recognized firm with offices in Park City, Utah and Los Angeles, California. The competition submissions for Stage II will be presented on February 2nd, but until then here is a preview of Sporano + Mooney’s Proposal!

Ballet West: Fluid Adagio Installation Competition

Sebastian Jordana — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:12:25 +0000

AIA Utah announces the 2010 design/build competition Ballet West: Fluid Adagio Installation (BWFAI), a first-time-ever joint competition initiated by AIA Utah’s Young Architects Forum.