The Evelyn Grace Academy, a new secondary school in Brixton, south London by Zaha Hadid Architects, won the £20,000 (approximately $30,000 USD) Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize 2011 for the best new European building built or designed in the United Kingdom. This is the second year running that Zaha Hadid Architects has [...]

More than 6,500 windows were upgraded as part of the Empire State Building’s recent retrofit and renovation. Now, the building has been awarded LEED Gold for Existing Buildings certification as further recognition from the $550 million Empire State ReBuilding program. According to the announcement, the retrofit conducted by Johnson Controls and Jones Lang LaSalle is [...]

Glass played a significant part in the design of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ newest completed office tower, Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore, which opened yesterday. The 43-story tower features a curving glass-and-metal exterior wall and is the first office building in Southeast Asia to achieve a LEED Platinum rating for its core and shell as [...]

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have issued a joint statement urging policy makers to take immediate steps to create jobs in the design and construction industry. On the eve of the Obama Administration’s major jobs initiative, the AIA and AGC said [...]

The winners of the 2011 myMarvin Architect’s Challenge, sponsored by Marvin Windows and Doors in Warroad, Minn., vary widely in design, from a rural farmhouse in Maine to an ultra-contemporary mountain home in Oregon, but all feature doors and windows from Marvin. The company says its annual contest recognizes the best in architecture. This year, [...]

Architect Bob Borson has joined the blogger line-up on the Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal website and bi-weekly e-newsletter. Borson will provide insight into working on different projects, offering attention to the surrounding glass, glazing and other fenestration details. In his first blog Borson talks about ways architects can find inspiration for their many projects. [...]

Key Communications, publisher of the Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal magazine, has hired Sahely Mukerji to join its staff. She will serve as an assistant editor of the Architects’ Guide’s sister publication, USGlass, and editor of Key’s fastest growing publication, Solar Glazing as well as editor of www.USGNN.com™, USGlass’s daily electronic newsletter. Mukerji worked [...]

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art has selected Ennead Architects to design its expansion and renovation project. Susan Rodriguez, design partner, and Timothy Hartung, management partner, will lead the Ennead design team. “Creating this expansion is an intriguing, yet complex design opportunity: we believe that the artful and responsible transformation of the building and site [...]

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has begun construction on what will be the new glass and brick 383,000-square-foot Scripps Cardiovascular Institute and the adjacent 26,000-square-foot Central Energy Plant on the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla campus in La Jolla, Calif. Construction completion is targeted for January 2015, with an anticipated tenant move-in date of April 2015. [...]

Yesterday President Barack Obama proclaimed May 2011 as National Building Safety Month. “Building safety is a critical component of our homeland security, our personal and public safety, the protection of property, and our economic well-being,” stated President Obama. “While disasters have had devastating and heartbreaking effects in our country and around the world, modern building [...]