Sean Lally, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received an international award that began in the 19th century to develop a 21st-century idea: to use energy systems as building materials. He received the 2011-2012 Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize in landscape architecture from the American Academy in Rome. “The [...]

Fentress Architects has announced the members of the final jury for the 2011 Fentress Global Challenge, an international competition for architecture and engineering students to present their vision for the Airport of the Future. Those on the final jury are: G. Hardy Acree, airport director, Sacramento International Airport Marvin Malecha, FAIA dean of the College [...]

Tom Minnon, eastern region sales manager for Tubelite Inc., is the latest blogger to join the Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal website and bi-weekly e-newsletter. Minnon’s blog will provide insight into sustainable and green building and design practices, paying close attention to the role that glass and metal products play in achieving this goal. [...]

The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has won an international competition to design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, in Wujiang, China. The 358-meter supertall tower is set to become the defining visual landmark for both the new Wujiang lakefront development and for the city as a whole. “This design is the [...]

The Kimball Art Center will present the five architectural designs for its renovation and expansion project, leading up to the selection of the winning design in February 2012. The project comprises an interior renovation of the existing Kimball Art Center located on the corner of Park Avenue and Main Street in Park City, Utah, and [...]

Fentress Architects has earned ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Production and Delivery of Architectural, Interior Design and Planning Services. According to the firm’s announcement, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifies companies that exhibit the highest level of quality management and client service. It also notes that Fentress Architects passed the two-phase audit without a single [...]

The University of Michigan Law School Academic Building and Hutchins Hall Student Commons addition is part of major renovation not seen since the opening of Hutchins Hall in 1933. The construction project, which was designed by Integrated Design Solutions in Troy, Mich., and Hartman-Cox in Washington, D.C., broke ground in September 2009, and the Student [...]

The board of directors of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) voted to award the 2012 AIA Gold Medal to Steven Holl, FAIA. The AIA Gold Medal, which honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture, is considered to be the profession’s highest [...]

Architect Michael Graves has been named the recipient of the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Graves, the tenth Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 24 ceremony in Chicago.  Graves is Founding Principal of the firm Michael [...]

Thornton Tomasetti of New York, a company focused on engineering design, investigation and analysis, hired architect Richard J. Vivenzio as vice president of the Building Performance segment. Vivenzio, a licensed architect in New York and New Jersey, has more than 28 years of experience in architectural project management, construction administration, building diagnostic services and forensic [...]