MERRITT ISLAND — Amazon and Jeff Bezos have big plans to launch thousands of satellites from the Space Coast in an effort to play catchup and compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink service. To speed up the process, it’s going to build a $120 million facility to prep those satellites just miles from the launch pad. The company announced it has agreed to expand into Florida with its ... Read More

PHOENIX — Openings intended for wildlife will be put into portions of the U.S.-Mexico border wall — including sections in Arizona — under terms of a settlement in a 4-year-old lawsuit over how the Trump administration paid for new construction. The deal filed in federal court spells out that there will be a passage of 5 feet by 7 feet in the Perilla Mountains corridor in Cochise County to ... Read More

The Dallas Museum of Art asked for a reinvention, and boy is it going to get one. The six architectural teams competing to design its expansion have put forward their visions, and all would dramatically transform the institution, both in its internal functioning and in its relationship to the city. As the adage goes, be careful what you wish for. The designs leave the museum with the challenge ... Read More

Some people think the office is dead. New York developer Michael Shvo is betting big the office is still very much alive -- so long as it's plush as a Mandarin Oriental hotel, cozy as a hedge-funder's Hamptons spread, and designed by a starchitect who won't work for just anyone. Shvo, the rising real-estate powerhouse who ducked into Miami Beach to rescue the legendary Raleigh Hotel, is ... Read More

With hurricane season underway, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is partnering with The Catholic University's School of Architecture and Planning to recreate North America's first large-span, self-supporting geodesic dome to illustrate the significance of dome architecture in an age of extreme weather. By the nature of their geometry, geodesic domes can support more load ... Read More

The Nobel Center Foundation has chosen Rejlers as electrical consultant for the new Nobel Center at Slussen in Stockholm. In 2031, the new Nobel Center is scheduled for completion. It will be a meeting place for science, culture and dialogue. It creates spaces for exhibitions, scientific conferences, a restaurant and café as well as premises for school activities. As a designer and advisor on ... Read More

The future of architecture was on display along the south lakefront 90 years ago today.There, as part of Chicago's forward-looking 1933 World's Fair, stood 11 exhibition houses billed as homes of the future by virtue of their design, building materials or construction methods.The standout was the House of Tomorrow, a two-story, 12-sided glass home that stunned fairgoers with marvels we take ... Read More

Jun. 28—Take a stroll down any of the commercial streets in downtown Washington, D.C. — K Street or Connecticut Avenue or any of a dozen others — and you will see a truly monotonous sight: long rows of nondescript glass-box office buildings, virtually all of them 12 or 13 stories high. This is not because developers lack imagination, although many of them do, but because of D.C.'s rigid height ... Read More