The Architect's Newspaper

Dattner Architects equips a Brooklyn sanitation garage with fritted glass, aluminum fins, and precast concrete. ow.ly/KlyI50Z3l3L

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (NYCDCA) is leading an initiative to build a permanent public monument dedicated to Billie Holiday, the jazz artist and Civil Rights Movement champion. ow.ly/kCPh50Z3kyF

In an op-ed Paola Pietrantoni, shares Studio Atomic’s approach to lighting and introduces her coined concept “ninja lighting,” the quiet, discreet, low glare lights you don’t really see on the ceiling, walls, or floors. ow.ly/MwcU50Z3f6h

Wende Museum announced plans recently to build an extension for its archives. The Institute for Archival Research will be located out of the Hahn Building, a 1965 structure designed as an office building for a shopping mall mogul. ow.ly/TMRa50Z2SPe

Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines Architecture + Design have been selected to design a new cultural pavilion in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town—a historic community built by formerly enslaved Africans on the Emancipation Trail. ow.ly/ak1H50Z2SKU

The AIA shared April’s Architecture Billings Index this week and the score dropped to 48.3. AIA said “billings at firms were essentially flat,” however, the lower number indicates more firms reported a decline rather than an increase in billings. ow.ly/lUBK50Z2SJs

Amtrak and the DOT announced the master developer that will lead New York Penn Station’s renovation: Halmar International, a New York–based heavy civil construction management firm. Halmar’s consortium, includes PAU and ASTM. ow.ly/rJ9w50Z2rLp

At the center of Jessor, at Citygroup, is a deeply researched, brilliantly curated, 32-page broadsheet, which can be found in formidable stacks on the gallery floor. Texts present Herman Jessor’s work and the history of limited-equity cooperative housing. ow.ly/vjTC50Z2k8H

The Institute of Texan Cultures, designed for the 1968 World's Fair, was demolished to make way for the new San Antonio Spurs arena. The team has now named Overland International, Sasaki, and Marquee Development to design and develop the site. ow.ly/kIOI50Z1Stw

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, La Biennale di Venezia president, and directors Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu announced the title and theme of La Biennale Architettura 2027. The thematic title is “Do Architecture—For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality.” ow.ly/PToO50Z1InH

Nashville’s redevelopment of its East Bank, a neighborhood abutting the Cumberland River, is coming together piece by piece. Part of the redevelopment is a new pedestrian bridge that will span across the Cumberland River from the East Bank to Germantown. ow.ly/FtWr50Z1ixZ

STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects have won a competition to overhaul parts of the Louvre. Renovations include two new entrances for the museum on either side of the moat and a dedicated space for the Mona Lisa. ow.ly/bJTN50Z1c5u

Cruises through the Great Lakes have long skimmed Lake Erie between Toronto and Cleveland, without stopping in Buffalo. A forthcoming cruise terminal will offer a new link on the network, and plug Buffalo into the region’s cruising industry. ow.ly/nFvJ50Z3m2y

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (NYCDCA) is leading an initiative to build a permanent public monument dedicated to Billie Holiday, the jazz artist and Civil Rights Movement champion. ow.ly/kCPh50Z3kyF

In an op-ed Paola Pietrantoni, shares Studio Atomic’s approach to lighting and introduces her coined concept “ninja lighting,” the quiet, discreet, low glare lights you don’t really see on the ceiling, walls, or floors. ow.ly/MwcU50Z3f6h

An exhibition by Nile Greenberg fills the Edith Farnsworth House with the noise it tried to keep out. ow.ly/iGcQ50Z2TKC

Wende Museum announced plans recently to build an extension for its archives. The Institute for Archival Research will be located out of the Hahn Building, a 1965 structure designed as an office building for a shopping mall mogul. ow.ly/TMRa50Z2SPe

Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines Architecture + Design have been selected to design a new cultural pavilion in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town—a historic community built by formerly enslaved Africans on the Emancipation Trail. ow.ly/ak1H50Z2SKU

The AIA shared April’s Architecture Billings Index this week and the score dropped to 48.3. AIA said “billings at firms were essentially flat,” however, the lower number indicates more firms reported a decline rather than an increase in billings. ow.ly/lUBK50Z2SJs

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