The Architect's Newspaper

Competition costs and requirements for participation are rising, stipends never cover the investments firms make, and a familiar set of firms secure many of the most prestigious commissions, some architects are eager for a fairer way forward. ow.ly/yEWQ50YxPG9

The Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) announced it will relocate to a new office space with a “prominent corner-presence” at 99 Chauncy Street to be designed by NADAAA. ow.ly/J59h50YxHh1

AIA, ASLA, DC Preservation League, Docomomo US, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Society of Architectural Historians, The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and others are suing the Trump administration over its plans for the Kennedy Center. ow.ly/yUpE50YxCx5

On March 31, a special edition of Facades+ is coming to Coverings in Las Vegas. The half day program will feature two design case studies and two educational sessions, ow.ly/QJ5T50Yx1Gu

Arianna Laurenzi and Cristiano Frizzele finished the $36 million renovation of the Central Pavilion ahead of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale to redefine “relationships, sequences and connections” within the building. ow.ly/3EKI50YwX84

AN's Jack Murphy speaks with Christopher Payne—the architect-turned-photographer behind Cooper Hewitt's first large-scale photography show. They discuss craft, access, and the hidden architecture of the factory floor. ow.ly/AaFr50YwyUo

A museum about the desert, designed to look like the desert, in the desert. Hacker Architects breaks ground on the High Desert Museum's first expansion in 36 years. ow.ly/lS4S50YwwZa

New York City just launched ADU For You, a digital platform with pre-approved backyard home designs from eight architecture firms. ow.ly/WBkX50YwwX0

A sound installation at FDR Four Freedoms State Park tests what happens when you put voices into a space designed to hold silence. Hans Rosenström’s Out of Silence, created with Estonian choir Vox Clamantis, opens April 29 on Roosevelt Island. ow.ly/TxGt50YwrNr

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a competition with a prize pool of $650,000 to engage the country’s design professionals, the public, and students in an initiative to conceptualize the “America 250” campaign through infrastructure. ow.ly/QRh350Yw5rs

Studio Gang designed The Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Named after the first Black woman elected to Congress, the building offers a masterclass in public architecture. ow.ly/mKIb50Yw42B

Fallingwater has a new wordmark—adapted from a typeface Edgar Kaufmann jr. customized for his 1986 book on the Frank Lloyd Wright house. LA-based firm Fruition Co. spent a year on the rebrand and arrived at a conclusion: the building is “un-logoable.” ow.ly/9w4S50YvsCY

Tipping Point East is the the U.K.’s first circular construction hub. Its campus of warehouses, combines material reuse, low-carbon construction, training and cultural programming on an industrial site. ow.ly/8qTE50YvlK9

President Trump has shared preliminary renderings of his vision for the Kennedy Center—the Washington, D.C. performing arts center designed by midcentury modernist Edward Durell Stone.  ow.ly/vCFh50YuZu2

The Trump administration is proposing a new screening facility for White House visitors underneath Sherman Park in conjunction with AECOM and Thornton Tomasetti. ow.ly/Jcsj50YuRjB

The New Museum reopens on March 21 after two years of closure. However, amidst its neighborhood's gentrification and America's dwindling museum attendance, the Museum's OMA-designed expansion emerges in a markedly different context from its predecessor. archpaper.com/2026/03/new-mu…

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Topophyla and Gabriel Castro-Andrade's winning proposal in the Sign and Line competition, an initiative that aims to protect undocumented landscape and construction workers, uses red ribbons to keep construction workers safe from immigration agents. ow.ly/B7qi50Yx2vP

On March 31, a special edition of Facades+ is coming to Coverings in Las Vegas. The half day program will feature two design case studies and two educational sessions, ow.ly/QJ5T50Yx1Gu

Perkins&Will applies a frit with vertical cadence to the FIU Innovation Building ow.ly/UNzr50Yx1Cw